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Red Herring Called Fallacy Relevance Occurs Speaker Distract

Fallacy Red Herring
Definition and Examples also called a "fallacy of relevance." This occurs when the speaker is trying to distract the audience by arguing some new topic, or just generally going off topic with an argument.

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