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Talk:Appeal to fiction
If someone creates a survey off the top of their head (Dogs hurt more people than cats, so dogs are violent) would that count, because the fictional evidence is just something they made up, or does it have to be pop culture related? ClothCoat (talk) 01:43, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
rename?[edit]
"from fictional evidence" sounds like "you made that up for the purpose" rather than "someone made it up for something else and you borrow it". [[User:K61824|]][[User_talk:K61824|]] 02:57, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
George Orwell[edit]
I suspect that a lot of references to George Orwell fall into this trap: something is bad because it's in 1984 (or Animal Farm) and Orwell says it leads to evil. I don't have any specific examples. Annquin (talk) 17:30, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
Author claims?[edit]
If someone conflates an author's work with their opinion (e.g. "Dan Brown claims the Illuminati still exist"), does this fallacy apply (along with a straw man)? RSamys (talk) 20:47, 5 October 2017 (UTC)