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fallacy of quoting out of context

informal fallacy in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning
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fallacy of quoting out of context

Summary

fallacy of quoting out of context ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (101 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • fallacy of quoting out of context's subclass of is recorded as equivocation[2].
  • fallacy of quoting out of context's said to be the same as is recorded as quote mining[3].
  • fallacy of quoting out of context's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bm2hj[4].
  • fallacy of quoting out of context's facet of is recorded as context[5].
  • fallacy of quoting out of context's uses is recorded as quotation[6].
  • fallacy of quoting out of context's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/QuoteMine[7].
  • fallacy of quoting out of context's All the Tropes article ID is recorded as Quote_Mine[8].

Why It Matters

fallacy of quoting out of context ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (101 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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