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This comment addresses a weakness in the reference cited in the article "False Equivalence." The cited source is a book called, The Purposeful Argument: A Practical Guide, and this may be an abbreviated edition. The Purposeful Argument is held by only 64 libraries worldwide. I believe there must be a more widely used source.

Also, "false equivalence" is a very important rhetorical/logic fallacy. In the famous June 9, 1954 clash between Joseph McCarthy and Joseph Welch, McCarthy's entire argument was based on a false equivalence. McCarthy opened his argument by suggesting that what he was doing by broadcasting details about an associate in Welch's law firm was the equivalent of McCarthy notifying the FBI of the identity of someone he felt should be put under investigation. Because McCarthy's charge was broadcast live to more than 20,000,000 people, the disclosure was not the same. --OntheWestSide-David (talk) 05:19, 13 March 2015 (UTC)