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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Can this qualify as red herring?

Person 1: TikTok is a platform that mostly consists of disgusting, vile and borderline illegal content. Sure there's some funny and good content on there, but the vast majority is like the former. Person 2: TikTok is just like any other social medi...

asked on Wednesday, Feb 16, 2022 02:30:32 PM by Jacob
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Are certain things *really* exceptions?

Good Evening, I have found what seem to be issues regarding exceptions on the websites definitions of fallacies, for example: (Good Example [where everything is AOK], Appeal to Popularity) Exception: When the claim being made is about the popula...

asked on Tuesday, Feb 15, 2022 12:29:31 AM by Epsodom
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What Fallacy Is This?--That's Not Important

A makes an argument for claim X B responds:  I don't think what's important is X.  What's important is that...Y. --- B's response is both dismissive of A and an attempt to change the subject.  

asked on Sunday, Feb 13, 2022 11:34:02 AM by Ed F
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"Pooh Pooh" Fallacy.

I looked at some of the fallacies at wikipedia and this one is called the , "pooh pooh" fallacy, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pooh-pooh#:~:text=A%20pooh%2Dpooh%20(also%20styled,the%20substance%20of%20the%20argument . It#s where an arguer labels an ...

asked on Saturday, Feb 12, 2022 02:45:12 PM by Zelensky
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What Is This Fallacy?

What is the fallacy of reaching a conclusion first and then searching for anything to support it?   Seems like this is a basic fallacy (and may have been discussed recently), but I can't put my finger on it.

asked on Saturday, Feb 12, 2022 11:17:42 AM by Ed F
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Is this an example of a complex Question

I always felt that the tone and language used in these questions while I believe is a total red herring. They feel loaded and by saying Yes your almost admitting some kind of fault. Questions during an argument that includes  Well don&rsqu...

asked on Wednesday, Feb 09, 2022 10:13:34 PM by alex
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What Fallacies Is Painting A Group Because of Some Bad Apples?

Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau argued that the the trucker convoy protesting vaccination mandates  needed to end their protests, and as part of his argument described them as right wing white supremists because a few racist symbols were seen a...

asked on Wednesday, Feb 09, 2022 06:58:17 PM by Ed F
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Why is this fallacy not mentioned?

Dr. Bo put the Planning fallacy about at the end of the book where the, "cognitive biases" are mentioned instead of the fallacies yet he accepted the fact that it is also a fallacy but it is not mentioned in the section of fallacies?

asked on Monday, Feb 07, 2022 05:16:55 PM by Nefarios
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What fallacy is this?

P1: Remdesivir is bad. P2: Remdesivir is the main drug used to kill hundreds of thousands of hospitalized patients who had Covid-19.  P3: Remdesivir was used in a study in Africa for Ebola in 2018 and 53% of the recipients died from It. ...

asked on Sunday, Feb 06, 2022 06:04:20 PM by Jason Mathias
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Gerrymandering Propaganda.

Gerrymandering is actually something I found on this website that has even more fallacies that the book doesn't cover: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/here-are-15-common-data-fallacies-to-avoid/   Gerrymandering is the deliberate change of a...

asked on Thursday, Feb 03, 2022 11:39:31 AM by Nefarios
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