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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Do you accept "No discussion" and "The Big Lie Technique" as logical fallacies?

Owen Williamson , lecturer in Developmental English at University of Texas, El Paso, who I suspect is retired, put up the page, Master List of Logical Fallacies , about which he says, "No claim is made to "academic rigor" in this listing." While it ...

asked on Monday, Jul 17, 2023 12:29:45 AM by Petra Liverani
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"Appeal to Triviality"

Lately on Twitter I have seen people post an image about the "Appeal to Triviality" fallacy, 'where the person who commits it argues that the argument "doesn't matter" in an attempt to make their opponents give up so they can push their agenda witho...

asked on Saturday, Jul 15, 2023 08:11:03 AM by Sebastian A. Salazar
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Is argument from ignorance always fallacious?

asked on Friday, Jul 14, 2023 02:51:18 PM by Artoria
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Activist versus nuclear advocate

I'd love to hear an opinion from the community about this: Alessio, (me) commenting a really good informative video about climate change and energy solutions and a reply from an Nuclear advocate, he's actually a nuclear ingeneer I think.  A: "...

asked on Monday, Jul 10, 2023 05:32:22 PM by TheBlueDragonfly
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Frame Flipping?

People strongly opposed to same sex unions often position themselves behind a far more ‘respectable’ facade than blunt homophobia, and say that same-sex marriage ‘threatens the family.’ And in Gary Chapman’s When Sorry ...

asked on Monday, Jul 10, 2023 02:59:38 AM by Stephen A
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I feel like this is an example of using weasle words.

I caught someone saying : "From all the things they could choose to be interested about children and underage people in general, is very disturbing that they have chosen to be interested about what they do with their genitals."     ...

asked on Thursday, Jun 29, 2023 06:26:17 PM by 87blue
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It is wrong to kill human beings. Human beings are animals. So it is wrong to kill animals.

I feel there is something wrong with this argument. Could anyone help give an explanation? What kind of fallacy is it? Thanks a million!

asked on Thursday, Jun 29, 2023 10:55:57 AM by Sing
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Fallacy of division erratum

In the exception part of Fallacy of Division, just above the "tip" it says: Exception: When a part of the whole has a property that, by definition, causes the part to take on that property. I think it should be: Exception: When a part of the whol...

asked on Thursday, Jun 29, 2023 10:36:56 AM by Kostas Oikonomou
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Appealing to Opposing Authority

Here's a type of argument I use sometimes. I wanted to get some opinions on it, see if people thought it was a strong or fallacious argument. P1: A certain group of authority figures say that Y is true. P2: These experts are part of a group that i...

asked on Wednesday, Jun 28, 2023 10:22:42 PM by FormerRedditor
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Is this relying on an ambigious definition to define "sexuality"?

From here :  IN response to me saying: So you conflate female power with being sexual.   He responds:     Yes I do conflate them because sexuality is part of person and they might express them self through their sexual...

asked on Wednesday, Jun 28, 2023 09:21:20 PM by 87blue
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