Ask Your Questions About Logical Fallacies

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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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More examples of a Weak and extended analogy please?

Hey Can you please clarify the difference between a weak analogy and the extended analogy I genuinely don't understand the difference. Like not only explain it but a few examples I would highly appreciate it. Anyone is free to try help ...

asked on Friday, Jan 07, 2022 03:44:17 PM by
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Appeal to possibility definition

I'm reading the definition of appeal to possibility where it says  "When a conclusion is assumed not because it is probably true or it has not been demonstrated to be impossible , but because it is possible that it is true" Isn't it "not bein...

asked on Friday, Jan 07, 2022 01:06:52 PM by Kostas Oikonomou
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What kind of fallacy involved lying about your political affiliations or being dishonest

Is this a logic fallacy? Reminding or Telling people your very liberal or Conservative when faced with criticism but then on all talking points or political views you lean towards the opposite way. I don’t know why I’m so hung up on this...

asked on Thursday, Jan 06, 2022 05:33:28 PM by alex
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Is this appeal to bias?

Is it fallacious to prefer to read unbiased sources because they generally have a more proper view?  I tend to learn about religions from academic, scholarly, and objective sources and not from, for example, evangelical websites, so I was jus...

asked on Thursday, Jan 06, 2022 04:45:55 PM by Alex
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What’s wrong with this induction?

P1) Lots of animals lay eggs P2) Animals are things C1) Therefore, lots of things lay eggs   P3) People are things C2) Therefore, lots of people lay eggs   I know that there’s something wrong with this inference but I can&rsqu...

asked on Thursday, Jan 06, 2022 04:39:47 PM by Alex
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Moralistic issues are appeals to consequents.

There is an appeal to consequents and the moralistic fallacy. The moralistic fallacy is essentially that if something is ought to be, it is to be a certain way (Z) where Z is a desirable or an undesirable thing. This is exactly the same as an appe...

asked on Thursday, Jan 06, 2022 04:37:48 PM by
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Is this an appeal to positive consequences?

appeal to consequences I was just wondering whether the following verse from the Qur'an would be considered an appeal to positive consequences fallacy? Surah 2:21 - "O mankind! worship your Lord, the One Who created you and those from before you,...

asked on Wednesday, Jan 05, 2022 06:13:34 PM by B Smith
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Fact Check fail

I have sometimes found fact checks to be useful for debunking certain alternative viewpoints or claims, but at other times I have found fact checks to admit the truth of the claim, while denying it is true at the same time, while employing fallaciou...

asked on Tuesday, Jan 04, 2022 07:19:35 PM by Daniel
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There is no difference between these two fallacies.

Just finished the book and it seems that, "bulverism" is exactly the same as an ad hominem, stating that an argument cannot be true because of the character.   A great example of an ad hominem is Saying that someone who doesn't have a uterus ca...

asked on Tuesday, Jan 04, 2022 01:09:24 PM by Danzforme
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What fallacy is the opposite of the appeal to novelty fallacy?

I’ve been looking for a specific fallacy that I remember seeing for a bit but I can’t find it. The fallacy is basically the opposite of the appeal to novelty fallacy

asked on Monday, Jan 03, 2022 01:42:47 PM by logan
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