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 Many Eyes a Fallacy?

Crowdsourcers often repeats this idea that because so many people are looking at something that it is less likely to get bad stuff through. While this can follow rationally, we have issues like Kitty Genovese which indicate the opposite is true, the...

asked on Sunday, Aug 22, 2021 10:46:33 PM by kacy trever
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Fallacy?

 1. If water truck carries water and food truck carries food, then fire truck carries fire. 2. Water truck carries water and food truck carries food. 3. Therefore, fire truck carries fire.

asked on Saturday, Aug 21, 2021 11:40:18 PM by Lynx Ssss
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Ad hominem?

The creator of Disney was a racist, therefore we shouldn't watch Disney.

asked on Saturday, Aug 21, 2021 03:20:03 AM by Lynx Ssss
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Weak Analogy?

1. A person killed a child because he was screaming. 2. The person has anger issues and you can't control anything when you are angry. 3. Therefore, killing that child is not immoral  

asked on Thursday, Aug 19, 2021 11:50:20 AM by Lynx Ssss
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Is Strawman fallacy same as misunderstanding?

If a person misunderstood a topic like atomic structure and thought that it is proton that orbits an atom and he used that in his argument would that be considered Strawman fallacy?

asked on Wednesday, Aug 18, 2021 09:36:56 PM by Lynx Ssss
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Fallacious Reasoning in Anti-Abortion Argument (?)

P1. It is wrong to kill innocent humans. P2. The unborn are innocent humans. From (P1) and (P2), it is wrong to kill the unborn.

asked on Wednesday, Aug 18, 2021 01:55:50 AM by mnac87
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Afghanistan War Fallacy

With all of the drama surrounding Biden’s decision to remove all troops from Afghanistan and all the new Afghan refugees I see alot of people pointing at this saying “look at these people all fleeing to America, this is why America is th...

asked on Tuesday, Aug 17, 2021 10:45:32 PM by Brady
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Is this an already identified fallacy?

I have heard too many radio pundits (Sean Hannity, I'm looking at you) challenge a caller to provide examples instantly and on the spot during a call. The caller is usually stymied because they hadn't prepared a list beforehand as Hannity had, and H...

asked on Monday, Aug 16, 2021 05:05:30 PM by William
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What kind of fallacy is this?

"The current cry is hold police accountable. I truly believe police would do a far better job if courts actually held criminals accountable."

asked on Sunday, Aug 15, 2021 11:58:12 AM by Jason Mathias
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Can moving the goal post fallacies make any claim an unfalsifiablility fallacy?

For example.  Presidential nominee X officially won.  Presidential nominee Y officially lost.  Nominee Y claims the election was a fraud and stolen.  Yet, no matter how many audits, court rulings and refuted arguments sho...

asked on Sunday, Aug 15, 2021 11:40:00 AM by Jason Mathias
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