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 argument valid?

1: Some abstract objects exist necessarily. 2: Abstract objects depend for their existence on concrete objects. 3: So, at least one concrete object exists necessarily.

asked on Saturday, Sep 16, 2023 07:30:22 PM by Theo
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Double standard, or false equivalence?

Person 1: I can't find a specific food item in this massive walk in pantry because there are over 10,000 different products in here and all of them have advertising written all over them and I can't read them all to find the one thing I am looking f...

asked on Thursday, Sep 14, 2023 12:09:59 PM by Jason Mathias
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What is the fallacy of equal outcome but presumed to be inequal?

For example a passenger complains of a "low-cost" airline that charges passengers for just about every facility used on board from headsets to food and drink. Yet the same passenger praises another airline for having "free" in-flight facilities des...

asked on Wednesday, Sep 13, 2023 03:06:51 PM by Nadir
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A question about the epistemology of narratives and assessing what's true or false.

I have noticed a lot of people operating from stage 1 thinking to determine what is and isn't true just by the narrative alone. They will say, "I don't buy that narrative", instead of looking at the facts or logic of the arguments. Or, they will au...

asked on Wednesday, Sep 06, 2023 10:30:19 AM by Jason Mathias
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Red Herring Fallacy?

I don't know if this is a fallacy or not, but I feel like it is. Would using the concept of being a "good person" as an argument be a fallacy? Example: Kate: Bryson punched me earlier today Linda: I don't believe you. Bryson wouldn't harm a fly/B...

asked on Friday, Sep 01, 2023 10:33:50 PM by Henry
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What is the fallacy when someone accusses another less of what they themselves do.

What is the fallacy of when someone who counter-accuses another of doing less of what they do? So for example I drink a glass of alcohol a week, but criticize someone for being an alcoholic and drinking several times a day. Because that person's a...

asked on Friday, Sep 01, 2023 01:45:20 AM by Nadir
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What logical fallacy is this concerning Jan 6th?

P1: That mob on Jan 6th couldn't have been MAGA. P2: If that mob really wanted to burn the capitol down, they would have destroyed the whole damn thing." C: Therefore, it couldn't have been MAGA. 

asked on Wednesday, Aug 23, 2023 02:29:45 PM by Jason Mathias
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Pretty sure multiple fallacies here?

Can you detect any fallacies in this post:   Human mind works in wonderous ways. For instance, it is well known that a claim repeated multiple times is seen as more truthful by default than a claim made once, even if in both cases the claim ...

asked on Monday, Aug 07, 2023 08:01:28 PM by Jack
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Do you really think that YOU can school ME?

Τwo people were arguing about wind turbines and whether they should be used or not.  The first person was in favor of using them to reduce CO2 emmisions and the other one claimed that they destroy the natural environment (up in the mountain...

asked on Thursday, Aug 03, 2023 01:34:21 PM by Kostas Oikonomou
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"Evidence Informed"

Proponents of controversial Intervention X claim that X must be court ordered for the patient's own good, even though it undermines the patient's autonomy, and there are no risks to imminent safety of self or others; survivors of Intervention X clai...

asked on Saturday, Jul 22, 2023 12:11:29 PM by Kevin Lav
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