Ask Your Questions About Logical Fallacies

Welcome! This is the place to ask the community of experts and other fallacyophites (I made up that word) if someone has a committed a fallacy or not. This is a great way to settle a dispute!


Dr. Bo's Criteria for Logical Fallacies:

  • It must be an error in reasoning not a factual error.
  • It must be commonly applied to an argument either in the form of the argument or in the interpretation of the argument.
  • It must be deceptive in that it often fools the average adult.
Therefore, we will define a logical fallacy as a concept within argumentation that commonly leads to an error in reasoning due to the deceptive nature of its presentation. Logical fallacies can comprise fallacious arguments that contain one or more non-factual errors in their form or deceptive arguments that often lead to fallacious reasoning in their evaluation.
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Dungeons and Dragons

The creator of this website might be familiar with this controversy since he was an 80's child. My mother moved to this country in the early 80's during the controversy with Dungeons and Dragons. She is warning me about playing this game since she r...

asked on Thursday, Jan 18, 2024 01:14:28 AM by Erica
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About dictators

"An overwhelming majority of dictators in the history of mankind are men." a) Do you think that this opinion of mine is based on facts and is not a fallacy? b) If it is a fallacy, which one is it? c) Another person answered to me, "Then an overwh...

asked on Wednesday, Jan 17, 2024 03:47:23 PM by Huy-Quang Bui
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Shaming Fallacies?

Ever since October 7 and the start of the Israel Hamas War, social media (in particular Twitter and Instagram) have been rife with arguments and statements aiming to shame people in not siding with one side or the other. From my reading of it over t...

asked on Monday, Jan 15, 2024 03:24:08 AM by Douglas Arndell
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Any fallacy in this climate change debate?

Climate science is probably the worst topic in the world to discuss with non-scientists. I have never had anything good come out of it, and even the most sane and impartial people overall tend to turn into ideological zombies the moment someone men...

asked on Saturday, Jan 13, 2024 06:21:48 PM by Jack
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Statistical Fallacy?

Imagine a year when two dozen mountain climbers perish, mostly in the Himalayas. Person A says "Wow, expedition climbing sounds a little dangerous!" Person B says, "Baloney. Statistics indicate that the great majority of climbers live to climb ano...

asked on Thursday, Jan 04, 2024 02:27:08 PM by David Blomstrom
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"Oh, you don't know?"

Hi everyone! I was watching a debate on which an anti-vaxxer, with his back against the wall, started asking "at what cost !" did we enforce vaccinations. To this, his opponent asked "what is  the cost of getting the vaccine then?" The r...

asked on Wednesday, Jan 03, 2024 09:27:08 AM by Sam
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Complex question fallacy

*Do you condemn Hamas ?*  Isn't a fallacy ?  Complex question fallacy? Because it presupposes that all of that happening start on 7 Oct ..and Also justified what isreal is doing ,whereas according to the UN reports Gaza is the world's l...

asked on Saturday, Dec 30, 2023 12:51:59 PM by Ms fame
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Does this argument commit the genteic fallacy?

"You only believe in God because of where you were born. So that should make you less confident in your belief in God"

asked on Wednesday, Dec 20, 2023 09:48:50 AM by Theo
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Some sort of conclusion fallacy or just a non-sequitur

The healthcare system is a mess. Wait times are horrible. Many common treatments don't have a good evidence base. Overtreatment too common. Private actors (including pharmaceutical companies) can have perverse influence. Etc. None of this makes alt...

asked on Thursday, Dec 14, 2023 01:20:39 PM by Doug Glaass
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Does Israel have a "right" to exist?

We often hear the mantra "Israel has a right to exist." Is this a fallacy, perhaps based on the definition of "right"? Or is it a red herring, diverting attention from the Palestinian genocide? Do all countries have an inherent "right" to exist? If...

asked on Wednesday, Dec 13, 2023 01:44:13 PM by David Blomstrom
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