False equivalence

What it is

Treats two things as equal because they share some feature, ignoring large differences in degree or kind.

Related

• Whataboutism fallacy
  Whataboutism usually implies the two wrongs are equivalent, which is rarely checked.
• False analogy fallacy
  Both treat a similarity as if it made things equal; false equivalence ignores differences of degree, a false analogy those of kind.
• Argument to moderation fallacy
  False balance often leads to the claim that the truth is in the middle.

References

• Wikipedia: False equivalence en.wikipedia.org
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Fallacies iep.utm.edu
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Fallacies plato.stanford.edu
• Wikipedia: List of fallacies en.wikipedia.org
• Purdue OWL: Logical fallacies owl.purdue.edu

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