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special pleading

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special pleading

Summary

special pleading is a fallacy[1]. It draws 137 Wikipedia views per month (fallacy category, ranking #4 of 14).[2]

Key Facts

  • special pleading's instance of is recorded as fallacy[3].
  • special pleading's instance of is recorded as use[4].
  • special pleading's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0qlqg[5].
  • special pleading's Quora topic ID is recorded as Special-Pleading[6].
  • special pleading's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 139906697[7].

Why It Matters

special pleading draws 137 Wikipedia views per month (fallacy category, ranking #4 of 14).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

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

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). special pleading. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/special-pleading
MLA “special pleading.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/special-pleading.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_special-pleading_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{special pleading}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/special-pleading}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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