What fallacy is this? PATRICK: The changes in the Senate environmental bill introduced by the Republicans have virtually gutted the whole thing.
WORTH: I thought the Democrats held the majority. How did they let that happen?

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Equivocation - Directing another person toward an unwarranted conclusion by making a word or phrase employed in two different senses in an argument appear to have the same meaning throughout.

Ambuguity - Directing another person toward an unwarranted conclusion by presenting a claim or argument that uses a word, phrase, or grammatical construction that can be interpreted in two or more distinctly different ways, without making clear which meaning is intended.

Misleading Accent - Drawing another person toward an unwarranted conclusion by placing improper or unusual emphasis on a word, phrase, or particular aspect of an issue or claim. This fallacy is also committed by taking portions or others' statements out of their original context and using them in a way that conveys an unintended meaning.

Illicit Contrast - A listener's inferring from another person's claim a related but unwarranted contrasting claim by improperly placing emphasis on a word or phrase in the speaker's or writer's statement.

Misuse of a Vague Expression - Attempting to defend a position by means of a vague expression or drawing an unjustified conclusion as a result of assigning a precise meaning to another person's word or phrase that is imprecise in its meaning or range of application.

Distinction without a Difference - Attempting to defend an action or position as different from another one by means or alternative words or phrases, when the action or position defended is no different in substance from the one which it is linguistically distinguished.

Fallacy of Novelty - Assuming that a new idea, law, policy, or action is better simply because it is new.

Fallacy of the Continuum - Assuming that small movements or differences on a continuum between extremes have a negligible effect and that to make definite distinctions between points on that line is impossible or at least arbitrary.

Fallacy of Composition - Assuming that what is true of the parts of a whole is therefore true of the whole.

Fallacy of Division - Assuming that what is true of a whole is therefore true of each of the parts of that whole.

False Alternatives - Restricting too severely the number of proposed alternative responses to a problem or situation and assuming that one of the suggested alternatives must be the true or the right one.

Is-Ought Fallacy - Assuming that because something is now the practice, it ought to be the practice. Conversely, assuming that because something is not now the practice, it ought not to be the practice.

Wishful Thinking - Assuming that because one wants something to be true, it is or will be true. Conversely, assuming that because one does not want something to be true, then it is not or will not be true.

Misuse of a Principle - Misapplying a principle or rule in a particular instance by assuming that it has no exceptions. Conversely, attempting to refute a principle or rule by means of an exceptional case.

Fallacy of the Mean - Assuming that the moderate or middle view between two extremes must be the best or right one simple because it is the middle view.

Faulty Analogy - Assuming that because two things are alike in one or more respects, they necessarily are alike in some other important respect, while failing to recognize the insignificance of their similarities and/or the significance of their dissimilarities.