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 moving the goalposts

From here : At, around 15:31 James agrees with Dave (yikes, agreeing with at T R A N S P H O B E, kinda transphobic, James) that gender and sex are facts and troons don't have eggs, periods, and can't give birth. & Women don't have periods/ca...

asked on Thursday, Oct 13, 2022 02:57:43 AM by 87blue
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Are “Ought” statements automatically dubious when used in Non-Evaluative Statements

I understand this is the Is-Ought Problem and I’ll give what I think is an example. person 1 makes the Normative Statement Person 2 makes the Positive Statement  1. The Filibuster is good Because it forces two sides to work together and...

asked on Sunday, Oct 09, 2022 06:42:45 PM by alex
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Appeal to personal moral superiority?

I was in an argument about speed limits (again) and I was pointing out the sheer level of non-compliance frequently over 90% and as high as 97% as indicative that the speed limit was incorrect, I suppose this alone could be seen as argumentum ad pop...

asked on Sunday, Oct 09, 2022 06:34:52 PM by Alex Hosking
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Is there a fallacy involved here?

I recently got into a discussion with someone about defining veganism and they used a lot of formal logic to show my definition led to absurdities according to them. I had said my minimum definition would be ‘a position against commodifying an...

asked on Sunday, Oct 09, 2022 09:44:47 AM by Ben
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Is this person asking to substitute academic rigor with public opinion?

From here : If "gender-affirming care" is so good, the activists and doctors who promote it—and profit from it—should defend their practices in the realm public opinion. In a democracy, everyone gets to weigh in on important issues, no...

asked on Saturday, Oct 08, 2022 12:20:15 AM by 87blue
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What sort of fallacy is this?

From here : So, the votes of 75 percent of Oklahoma’s citizens are invalid, because the “emerging awareness” doctrine declares that 5,000 years of human tradition constitute “an arbitrary, irrational exclusion.” &nb...

asked on Tuesday, Oct 04, 2022 01:38:53 AM by 87blue
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Guns Are Designed to Kill Bad People?

In a video @  https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=149148723912527  someone suggests that Ben Shapiro is hypocritical in opposing abortion but not supporting gun control. Shapiro replies that abortion kills babies, but "Guns are designed...

asked on Sunday, Oct 02, 2022 08:07:05 AM by David Blomstrom
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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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