What Is A Fallacy Of Partial Evidence

Based on my experience, Fallacies of Premises categories “…involve illegitimate citation or discussion of evidence.” are the most common fallacious interpretive approaches. The fallacy of Partial Evidence is one of the most used types of fallacies of premise, “Limitations of time or implicit commitment to a preunderstanding can cause the student to deal with only a part of the relevant evidence, leading to a skewed interpretation.” An example is when someone uses only partial information they have pre-selected to defend their position in an argument to persuade others. The more information that is left out, the more fallacious the argument. Or selecting versus randomly throughout the Bible to defend one’s position. Each verse needs to be