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 do I do here

Ignorant person im dealing with, very stupid, lives in there moms basement, and eats hot pockets for breakfast, lunch, and dinner I explain something using logical thinking and everything, and when I give analogy of there logic and they refuse to a...

asked on Saturday, Oct 01, 2022 05:19:03 PM by Bob the builder
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What do I do?

Someone trolls me, I get annoyed and angry They say: "chill dude I was just trolling" What do I do, the intent of trolling is to get someone annoyed and they say it's wrong to get annoyed at a troll

asked on Saturday, Oct 01, 2022 05:06:07 PM by Bob the builder
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What sort of fallacy, if any, does this argument follow?

What are your thoughts about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/xicw8a/raskphilosophy_open_discussion_thread_september/ipaj5mn/ This level of smug pseudo-intellectual idiocy requires a fisking. In order to reduce repetitiveness,...

asked on Saturday, Oct 01, 2022 02:07:35 AM by 87blue
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How can I respond to someone who says analogy is bad when it's not

My analogy to there ignorant argument was They said a pencil was the same as wood because pencils come from wood And I said that's like saying, bread is the same as wheat because bread comes from wheat They just say it's bad analogy and there's o...

asked on Friday, Sep 30, 2022 09:05:04 PM by Whimsicott
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What is this fallacy that person 2 made

Person 1: heroin is highly addictive therefore its bad for people  Person 2: heroin isn't addictive because addiction was around before heroin

asked on Friday, Sep 30, 2022 07:14:17 PM by Whimsicott
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Does Freuds Theories depend on unprovable claims?

The idea of dream interpretation seems impossible to prove and can “explain everything”. You have repeating Dreams about War? You’re life must be hell on earth! Oooo your life is very good but you still have War dreams? Well that&r...

asked on Thursday, Sep 29, 2022 06:07:53 PM by alex
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What fallacy is this that person 1 made

Person 1: how does God show himself to people who don't know he exist Person 2: the same way he showed to Adam and Eve Person 1: Adam and eve aren't real therefore you're wrong

asked on Thursday, Sep 29, 2022 03:37:02 PM by Whimsicott
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What fallacies are involved in the conclusions drawn about the pandemic?

As indicated by my comment on another question , I didn't believe in a novel virus or pandemic from Day One and I present my case for complete fabrication here . For those who believe in the novel virus and pandemic do you see logical fallacies in t...

asked on Wednesday, Sep 28, 2022 11:36:50 PM by Petra Liverani
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Ambiguous meaning? (Logical thinking required)

We probably are all aware of the difference between saying "I don't believe in the existence of God", and "God does not exist". One is a statement showing uncertainty, and the other is a statement expressing certainty.  Someone said this : "Do ...

asked on Tuesday, Sep 27, 2022 09:48:31 AM by Jim
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What fallacy does argument commit ?

" I don't have to wear a mask in public because nobody else is wearing them

asked on Monday, Sep 26, 2022 11:08:44 AM by Lisakhanya
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