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?

Taking advice from a different person of expertise then being accused of knowing better than God because I didn't take advice from a religious leader of perceived expertise. Guilt tripped from taking antidepressants was equated with not trusting God...

asked on Monday, Jul 08, 2024 11:23:59 PM by Kris
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Is this a False Equivalence?

From here : The alphabet mob on the other hand cheer and parade their pedophilic acts for the world to see. They extoll the likes of "Desmond is Amazing," a boy who dances in drag for grown men and even strips for them, like it's wonderful. Exce...

asked on Monday, Jul 08, 2024 10:42:00 PM by 87blue
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False equivalence?

Is listening to sensual or sexually explicit lyrics the same as watching something sexually explicit?   

asked on Monday, Jul 08, 2024 12:15:33 PM by Kris
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Guilt Trip

If Jesus went to jail for you because you got a DUI, would you continue to drink alcohol? 

asked on Sunday, Jul 07, 2024 10:55:45 AM by Kris
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Is this overextended outrage?

What fallacy is this guy making when he says : For the past few years, transactivists have largely been aiming their harassment, sexism, and death threats at (biological) women (sometimes hetero women, but especially lesbian women) but in the last...

asked on Tuesday, Jul 02, 2024 05:16:55 PM by 87blue
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About the Bible and God

In the beginning of the Bible the claim is made that God created the heavens - (that would include all the billions of stars) - and the earth with all of its plant and animal life - (that would include all the trillions of living and reproducing cel...

asked on Tuesday, Jul 02, 2024 12:50:58 AM by Charles
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What fallacy is this?

From here : You began this argument by cherry picking articles and accusing me of being a liar. You've yet to prove anything but that you are blindly devoted to liberalism. I said you were, you denied it. Who is the liar again? When I ask how...

asked on Monday, Jul 01, 2024 08:14:40 PM by 87blue
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What fallacy is it when similarities are overemphasized?

asked on Sunday, Jun 23, 2024 08:14:31 PM by 87blue
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Shotgun fallacy

I have often gotten a response to an argument that does not directly address the core issue but, instead returns a number of other questions as if they were on topic. I have called this the "shotgun fallacy" in my mind but is there a more common nam...

asked on Sunday, Jun 23, 2024 12:35:21 AM by Skeptocrat
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Did Person B prove A wrong?

Picture this hypothetical scenario: Person A: I am not attracted to trans-women "Person B present a trans-woman and A gets attracted but they don't know they're trans" B: But this is a trans-woman  

asked on Saturday, Jun 22, 2024 01:59:12 AM by paul
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