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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Qualification or experience

What fallacy would it be if someone tries to claim that someone's argument isn't valid because they're not qualified in the area concerned or haven't experienced a particular situation? There will be exceptions to this of course, because there are p...

asked on Wednesday, Dec 22, 2021 12:26:29 PM by Philip
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No reason to lie

A few weeks ago I saw someone sharing an antivax message on Facebook, quoting someone that claims that vaccines cause infertility, and his rationale for believing that person was that he must be telling the truth because he'd have nothing to gain by...

asked on Wednesday, Dec 22, 2021 12:19:09 PM by Philip
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Is this fallacy of composition and division in the same argument?

Here is an anti vaccine meme that I ran across today on FB.  "Ive got a question. If I didn't get the first three jabs and go straight to the fought one, will that one work? Or do I need to take the first three jabs that don't work in order t...

asked on Monday, Dec 20, 2021 01:41:15 PM by Jason Mathias
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If your workplace is demanding everyone get vaccinated, but a person's preference is to not get the covid vaccine, does that violate her human rights?

My boss insists that she has researched the vaccine thoroughly, she strongly objects to getting one, and our university is saying if you're not vaccinated you will be put on leave. My boss says it's a human rights issue. I looked up the human rights...

asked on Sunday, Dec 19, 2021 06:38:08 PM by Barb
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The Fallacy of unprovable evidence

I always forget what kind of fallacy this is. Its extremely common where any evidence shown is brushed aside is it just a moving the goalpost? What's the actual name of this fallacy it might be a group of fallacies. 1.Ancient Rome didn't exist all ...

asked on Friday, Dec 17, 2021 04:56:21 AM by Alexander
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Failure to see the Big Picture

The big picture is the totality of a situation. A well-intentioned person who is trying to do his best work, yet is hyper-focused on one aspect and completely oblivious to the fact that his job is part of a larger project fails to see the Big Pictur...

asked on Tuesday, Dec 14, 2021 11:00:45 AM by Dr. Richard
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Marxist telling me Marxism is Empirical

I’ve always tried to be open minded too the dozens of proposed socialist economic and ideologies including none socialist capitalist ideologies of libertarianism and anarcho capitalism  . Sticking with Marxism for right now. I always felt...

asked on Sunday, Dec 12, 2021 02:11:50 PM by alex
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Fallacy of Division, Politics and Democracy

It has been occurring to me of late that one particular fallacy, seems to have an overlarge influence on politics, it is the fallacy of division . I wonder how much of the historical ideological success of Democracy and Socialism is owed to this p...

asked on Sunday, Dec 12, 2021 08:46:48 AM by GoblinCookie
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Faulty comparison, or false equivalence, or logically sound?

Is comparing a fetus with a baby or an individual living human being a false equivalence, or a faulty comparison, or logically sound?   

asked on Saturday, Dec 11, 2021 01:20:19 PM by Jason Mathias
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Proof by Appearance

Dear Dr. Bo, I really enjoy parsing through your side and using it as a reference to point out faulty logic when being confronted with the usual gibberish you have in the 'net. When stumbling over this (sorry, german) video https://www.youtube.com...

asked on Thursday, Dec 09, 2021 09:03:57 AM by Rolly
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