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 covered anywhere?

I call it appeal to conflict, where because details about a thing are in dispute, the whole thing is in dispute. (creationists love this)

asked on Thursday, Mar 17, 2022 10:35:47 AM by beepboop
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Reading a book by Mark Levin (American Marxism) quote from book:

" planning to add Democratic seats to ensure control over that body (government); using tens of billions of taxpayer funds to subsidize and strengthen core parts of the Democratic Party base and facilitating massive illegal immigration, the purpose ...

asked on Thursday, Mar 17, 2022 09:28:01 AM by Jakub M
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Can you detect the logical fallacy here? 

Someone wrote on Twitter the following: "Why did Congress just give itself a 21% pay raise — isn’t Congress why the US has runaway inflation?" Can you detect the logical fallacy here? 

asked on Tuesday, Mar 15, 2022 09:11:35 PM by Shawn
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Is this a sound logical syllogism about evolution being intelligent?

Claim, evolution is intelligent.  P1: A network is a bunch of parts linked up to store and share information. This is how intelligence works. P2: intelligence emerges from networks. P3: Evolution is a network because it emerges out of a bunch o...

asked on Monday, Mar 14, 2022 11:57:00 AM by Jason Mathias
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Another reading (Yes I do find democrats equally guilty of fallacies)

“Affirmative Action levels the playing field so people of color and all women have the chance to compete in education and in business. White men hold 95% to 97% of the high-level corporate jobs. And that’s with affirmative action program...

asked on Sunday, Mar 13, 2022 08:36:53 PM by Jakub M
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another quote I see people saying!

Only criminals have a reason to hate police! Blue lives matter supporters.

asked on Sunday, Mar 13, 2022 07:54:11 PM by Jakub M
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How would somebody describe this?

“So, Jen Psaki's more interested in auditioning for a new job at fake news CNN or MSDNC than actually serve you the American people that are paying the highest price in history for a gallon of gasoline. And according to the climate alarmist cu...

asked on Sunday, Mar 13, 2022 05:37:04 PM by Jakub M
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How might one define magic logically?

Now I know that there are many definitions for magic itself online, but how would this pertain to magical thinking when defining magic? Could it be defined as unknown science, perhaps?

asked on Sunday, Mar 13, 2022 03:51:29 PM by Epsodom
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Fallacies in this text?

You think about what MLK stood for,” Mr DeSantis said on 15 December. “He said he didn’t want people judged on the colour of their skin, but on the content of their character. You listen to some of these people nowadays, they don&r...

asked on Sunday, Mar 13, 2022 09:09:05 AM by Jakub M
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Political Fallacy?

A lot of republicans are saying that if Trump was president the war in the Ukraine would of never happened! That Putin would of been scared of Trump! Also that Trump is tough and means business unlike Biden who is seen as weak!

asked on Sunday, Mar 13, 2022 08:58:07 AM by Jakub M
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