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Absurdity is the state or condition of being unreasonable, meaningless, or so unsound as to be irrational. "Absurd" is the adjective used to describe absurdity, e.g., "Tyler and the boys laughed at the absurd situation."
Witch-hunting is a historical example of mass behavior potentially fueled by moral panic. 1555 German print.. A moral panic is a widespread feeling of fear that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being of a community or society.
A deductive argument containing an informal fallacy may be formally valid, [3] but still remain rationally unpersuasive. Nevertheless, informal fallacies apply to both deductive and non-deductive arguments.
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
"Some of your key evidence is missing, incomplete, or even faked! That proves I'm right!" [4]"The vet can't find any reasonable explanation for why my dog died.
Irregardless is a word sometimes used in place of regardless or irrespective, which has caused controversy since the early twentieth century, though the word appeared in print as early as 1795. [1]
[6] Reviewing The Broken Constitution, James Oakes concludes that Feldman ignores "the voluminous historical evidence that would have added some much-needed nuance to his thoroughly unpersuasive analysis." [7] [8] He was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine from 2005 to 2011. [9]
Maier found no evidence that the Dutch Act of Abjuration served as a model for the Declaration, and considers the argument "unpersuasive". [22]: 264 Armitage discounts the influence of the Scottish and Dutch acts, and writes that neither was called "declarations of independence" until fairly recently.