Quoting Out Of Context
November 29th, 2009
Quoting Out Of Context
classification : informal – fallacies of ambiguity
To quote out of context is to remove a passage from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its meaning.
Foundations
It is often included with the Fallacy of Accent. However, Aristotle’s original Fallacy of Accent referred solely to shifting the accent on syllables within words, and it has already be stretched a little to include shifting the accent between words within a sentence. To expand it further is reason the concept of “quoting out of context” gets its own section.
Fallacious quoting can take two distinct forms; Straw Man and Appeal to Authority.
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