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In Response to the Whig Party Nomination of Zachary Taylor

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In response to the Whig Party nomination of Zachary Taylor in 1848, many "conscience Whigs" fled the party, joined with antislavery Democrats, and formed the


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Fallacy of Context

An error in reasoning where the context necessary to understand or properly apply an argument is ignored or misrepresented.

Division

A process in mathematics of distributing a group of things into equal parts or a method in logic of breaking down categories into smaller subcategories.

Hasty Generalization

A fallacy where a conclusion is not logically justified by sufficient or unbiased evidence.

Fallacy of Logical Structure

A type of logical error where an argument's structure is flawed, leading to invalid conclusions.

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