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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Is this a type of fallacy?

I worked in an HR Department for a large company, where I would sometimes get requests from employees for pay advances, which were allowed but within set limits, regardless of the circumstances. And yet some employees would still try to exceed those...

asked on Thursday, Jun 20, 2024 05:08:34 PM by Derek
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Inherent meaning

Is there a fallacy in someone making the claim that nothing has inherent meaning?  Is there a fallacy in claiming that words specifically have no inherent meaning? 

asked on Saturday, Jun 15, 2024 01:40:32 PM by LF2023
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different examples vs. logical fallacy

My BF told me I shouldn't eat food that's questionably out of date because if I get sick, I can't go to work. I argued that I also mountain bike, which could also put me out of work and he supports that activity. So I will continue to balance the ri...

asked on Saturday, Jun 15, 2024 01:13:50 AM by Linda
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Quiet or I missed it

I haven't seen any questions for months. Did I block something?

asked on Friday, Jun 14, 2024 03:45:08 PM by Dr. Richard
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Would this be considered a false dilemma or just emotional reasoning ?

I had someone tell me they thought Hamas was more "Moral" then Israel. Because to them since Hamas has killed less civilians, they were more moral. I thought the statement was loaded. This was in a group discussion on the conflict and came off like...

asked on Friday, Jun 07, 2024 12:14:18 AM by alex
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What is the Fallacy?

what is the fallacy when Because something similar happened in the past of a person or was blamed for that he can be blamed for a wrongdoing even if he did not do it.

asked on Sunday, May 26, 2024 07:42:01 AM by Tony
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Can black people be racist to white people? If you say yes can you tell me if there are any logical fallacies for people that say black people cant be racist?

 So I debate about this topic a lot and most of time I come to conclusion that people that think Black people cannot be racist, don’t have great understanding of how racism has played out in history. I would personally say that racism is ...

asked on Sunday, May 26, 2024 04:31:13 AM by Mike
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making reasonable assumptions and burden of proof

(hypothetical example, real example is technical and not easy to describe) authority says: these are the acceptable bright colors: 1. white 2. yellow 3. lime green 4. pink   Someone who's a really fan of black and purple says: But the ...

asked on Saturday, May 25, 2024 12:23:45 PM by frankk
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who has burden of proof when given some constraints and we're expected to make some reasonable assumptions

The exact problem I'm trying to solve is too technical to explain, so I'm trying to come up with a simpler  example. This isn't a great one, but the best I can think of at the moment: for example: to apply for this programming job, you must h...

asked on Friday, May 24, 2024 11:20:24 AM by frankk
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Predictability Fallacy?

The Man vs Bear debate has exploded across social media, in particular TikTok over the question of women's safety and violence against women. It's become really popular and it has been argued as a question of probabilities and its being used to say ...

asked on Saturday, May 11, 2024 06:09:09 AM by Douglas Arndell
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