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  2. Proving too much - Wikipedia

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    In philosophy, proving too much is a logical fallacy which occurs when an argument reaches the desired conclusion in such a way as to make that conclusion only a special case or corollary consequence of a larger, obviously absurd conclusion. It is a fallacy because, if the reasoning were valid, it would hold for the absurd conclusion.

  3. List of fallacies - Wikipedia

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    Proving too much – an argument that results in an overly generalized conclusion (e.g.: arguing that drinking alcohol is bad because in some instances it has led to spousal or child abuse). Psychologist's fallacy – an observer presupposes the objectivity of their own perspective when analyzing a behavioral event.

  4. Appeal to emotion - Wikipedia

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    The power of emotions to influence judgment, including political attitudes, has been recognized since classical antiquity. Aristotle, in his treatise Rhetoric, described emotional arousal as critical to persuasion, "The orator persuades by means of his hearers, when they are roused to emotion by his speech; for the judgments we deliver are not the same when we are influenced by joy or sorrow ...

  5. The Science Of Love In The 21st Century - The Huffington Post

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    Starting the ’70s, with divorce on the rise, social psychologists got into the mix. Recognizing the apparently opaque character of marital happiness but optimistic about science’s capacity to investigate it, they pioneered a huge array of inventive techniques to study what things seemed to make marriages succeed or fail.

  6. Fear of intimacy - Wikipedia

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    This fear is also defined as "the inhibited capacity of an individual, because of anxiety, to exchange thought and feelings of personal significance with another individual who is highly valued". [1] Fear of intimacy is the expression of existential views in that to love and to be loved makes life seem precious and death more inevitable. [2]

  7. Jonah complex - Wikipedia

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    Fear that an extraordinary life would be too much out of the ordinary, and hence not acceptable to others inciting xenophobic rejection; Fear by association of the ability honed being heightened and elevated as subject to a traumatic unrelated event, complex or memory; Fear of seeming arrogant, self-centered, etc. [7]

  8. Philophobia (fear) - Wikipedia

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    The risk is usually when a person has confronted any emotional turmoil relating to love but also can be a chronic phobia. [citation needed] This affects the quality of life and pushes a person away from commitment. A negative aspect of this fear of being in love or falling in love is that it keeps a person in solitude. It can also evolve out of ...

  9. 42 Valuable Lessons People Picked Up Embarrassingly Late In Life

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    Image credits: David Field #3. During my teenage years, I would travel often to my native place of Chennai, India. It would mostly be a regular family visit to meet my ageing maternal grandparents.