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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What's wrong with this logic?

Before you call a woman a gold digger, ask yourself do you ever have gold? You poor uncultured muppet. 

asked on Wednesday, Aug 14, 2024 09:02:19 AM by Kris
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What's wrong with this logic?

Women don't owe the world children. They don't owe men babies. They don't owe you an explanation. 

asked on Tuesday, Aug 13, 2024 02:18:39 PM by Kris
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Human nature

Person 1: For years scientists believed that we could better understand our human nature by studying our close relatives the chimpanzees. But given that we’ve recently discovered that we are more closely related to bonobos, whose nature appear...

asked on Tuesday, Aug 13, 2024 11:39:36 AM by LF2023
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What's wrong with this logic?

You should vote for a politician that is for abortion even though it doesn't effect you but it could effect your nieces. Therefore thats why you should vote for a politician that supports abortion.

asked on Monday, Aug 12, 2024 09:29:12 PM by Kris
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If.

"If X was stated to have the ability to destroy the world (which means society), then at his full power he can destroy the planet"

asked on Monday, Aug 12, 2024 12:45:33 PM by Zaroastria
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Biased

Multitude of bias people trying to downplay my argument, despite it being true. What would this be?

asked on Monday, Aug 12, 2024 12:00:17 PM by Zaroastria
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I have nothing to

"I have nothing to do debate you with, despite my refutation of my statement being a fallacy"

asked on Monday, Aug 12, 2024 11:48:20 AM by Zaroastria
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If X had cut the world in half.

If X had cut the world in half, then G (Gravity) would collapse the world. Is this a slippery slope fallacy?

asked on Monday, Aug 12, 2024 03:05:15 AM by Zaroastria
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What fallacy is this?

I am trying to point out that putting kids on sex offender registries is a bad idea , and this guy  says Neither does you defending kids having sex when they don't even know what it means to be an adult. You may keep saying "No", but your ac...

asked on Sunday, Aug 11, 2024 07:02:04 PM by 87blue
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Corrupt Union Paradox

If you criticize corruption in your union, co-workers often say, "The union kept me from getting fired!" I know, that's a statement, not an argument. However, it's kinda sorta an implied argument: I know the union is good because it kept me from ge...

asked on Saturday, Aug 10, 2024 01:00:38 PM by David Blomstrom
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