Ask Your Questions About Logical Fallacies

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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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Logical Fallacy Fallacy

If you commit a logical fallacy, does that mean your argument is destroyed? Example: Bro 1: Dude you can't just say you like Stalin you f****g communist scum Bro 2: Ad hominem.    Thanks

asked on Thursday, May 09, 2024 03:48:37 AM by Mr. MFor
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Can "Bread & Circus" be seen as an informal fallacy?

The basic definition from dictionary.com "something, as extravagant entertainment, offered as an expedient means of pacifying discontent or diverting attention from a source of grievance." Supposing a government or a people from a certain country ...

asked on Thursday, May 02, 2024 07:16:51 AM by Nadir
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New fallacy?

May I suggest a Silver Bullet fallacy: the belief that there is a single perfect solution and all partial solutions are therefore unworthy of consideration (if not heresy in daring to suggest them).

asked on Thursday, Apr 25, 2024 08:36:45 AM by Scott
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how many fallacies are here

asked on Saturday, Apr 13, 2024 01:46:50 PM by GAROU
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False Equivolence and/or any others?

What follows are two arguments about morality. The second argument attempts to counter the first one. I would like to know if you can see any fallacies in either of them. As with the second one, I can see a false equivalence. Ok, here they are: Arg...

asked on Monday, Apr 08, 2024 09:29:51 AM by Jack
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What is the falllacy of creating bad circumstances but only blaming the outcome of it (one that works in your favor)?

For example if someone were to insist you buy their car tires that they're vending, but you insist you don't need them because you already have functioning tires for your car. So after ignoring your arguments and failing to convince you time and ag...

asked on Wednesday, Mar 27, 2024 08:05:10 AM by Nadir
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Is this misleading vivdness?

Often you will hear news stories in which negative events are clumped together in such a way as to make serious events seem much more common than they are. Here is a made-up example: 47% of students in the South report that they have been violently...

asked on Wednesday, Mar 20, 2024 01:02:20 PM by Sean
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Opposite fallacy to that of personal incredulity?

Is there a fallacy that is the opposite of an argument from (personal) incredulity (such as a fallacious argument from credulity)? Thanks ahead.

asked on Monday, Mar 18, 2024 07:50:33 AM by MIchael Mote
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Motte-and-bailey fallacy

What is the Motte-and-bailey fallacy?  It was used in a discussion of the dangers of AI so I will be interested in what the AI response might be as well as real human's.

asked on Wednesday, Mar 13, 2024 05:00:47 PM by Skeptocrat
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