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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strawman fallacy and secundum quid

I was wondering whether strawman fallacy is another name for secundum quid. They both involve oversimplification. Do I understand it correctly? Thank you very much.

asked on Wednesday, Oct 06, 2021 05:49:47 AM by Sing
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What's the name of this fallacy?

for the sake of simplicity i will refer to things in question as x and y Person1: X and Y are the same thing Person 2: No, X and Y are different, if they were the same we wouldn't have to refer to them as X and Y; only X or Y (basically only one...

asked on Wednesday, Oct 06, 2021 04:36:48 AM by Jacob
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A Litany of Fallacies

This oozed over the transom this morning and I had a difficult time pinpointing just how many it touched on, so I thought I would open it up to the cognoscenti to see what you all thought. " Aristotle invented intellectualism the method of abstract...

asked on Monday, Oct 04, 2021 04:44:02 PM by Mchasewalker
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What logical fallacy’s are these

Person 1: Astrology is provable by science! Person 2: How can that be true as it would violate the 4 fundamental forces of physics. And vast parts of Quantum physics and General relativity to boot. There has been no proposed particle or any kind of...

asked on Friday, Oct 01, 2021 04:36:14 PM by alex
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Which type of fallacy is this?

God created the world, therefore bible is the word of God.

asked on Friday, Oct 01, 2021 12:49:37 PM by Lynx Ssss
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Is there a logical fallacy for when someone uses an extreme example

Is there a logical fallacy for when someone uses an extreme example of a group to malign the entire group? I have seen this used in the media and by individuals to try and win an argument. Just two examples: 1.The work-shy layabout who claims bene...

asked on Thursday, Sep 30, 2021 10:47:55 AM by John Turner
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is there a fallacy here?

P1: more and more teenagers are playing violent games P2: video games themselves have become more graphically and realistically violent P3: the number and variety of video games have expanded dramatically C: school violence is mainly caused by te...

asked on Thursday, Sep 30, 2021 09:56:45 AM by adam
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Does this qualify as a fallacy?

While I know that languages can’t possess a racial quality, someone once claimed that despite originating in Europe, Spanish is a nonwhite language because the majority of speakers in the world aren’t white. What sort of fallacy might th...

asked on Monday, Sep 27, 2021 12:27:24 PM by Alexander
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Is this non sequitur?

Nobody in the world today is really happy. Therefore, it seems  that human beings are just not made for happiness.     

asked on Monday, Sep 27, 2021 12:44:12 AM by adam
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Is using the word Maybe just a weasel word to get around the burden of proof?

Person 1: I can make as many assumptions as I want with the vaccines not working, I never claim them to be true. Person 2: An assumption is still a claim though. I don't understand your position. Are you saying you don't have to prove anything beca...

asked on Sunday, Sep 26, 2021 10:31:16 AM by alex
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