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Edited by Jeremy Stangroom, TPM is the online doppelgänger of The Philosopher's Magazine. Articles from the print edition are all available to read online. The TPM Blog also includes regular philosophical reflections and links to philosophical articles are featured in "Latest Philosophy News". Philosophy rarely escapes the domain of academic journals and books, and TPM is much appreciated as an accessible trough of food for thought, not the least of which for making its articles freely available.
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Day after day, millions of Americans who frequent pews see ghosts when they pick up their newspapers or turn on television news. They read stories that are important to their lives, yet they seem to catch fleeting glimpses of other characters or other plots between the lines. There seem to be other ideas or influences hiding there. One minute they are there. The next they are gone. There are ghosts in there, hiding in the ink and the pixels. Something is missing in the basic facts or perhaps most of the key facts are there, yet some are twisted. Perhaps there are sins of omission, rather than commission.
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Each of these fallacies is characterized by the illegitimate use of a logical operator in order to distract the reader from the apparent falsity of a certain proposition. The following fallacies are fallacies of distraction:
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The proposition P if and only if Q is true if and only if both P and Q are true, or if both P and Q are false. It is false only when one of them is true and the other false.