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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What fallacy is this?

Examples: 1: We can't explain why the lamp just moved, therefore it must be supernatural.  2: No one can explain it, therefore it must be aliens. 3: I don't know what these little things are that I am seeing under the microscope in the covid ...

asked on Tuesday, Oct 19, 2021 01:45:08 PM by Jason Mathias
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What type of fallacy is this? (Featuring Bertrand Russell)

Someone on Quora asked the question: "Why was Bertrand Russell so critical of Nietzsche?".  One of the responses especially stood out to me as it was written by a professor of law with a BA in philosophy. You would expect someone with thos...

asked on Tuesday, Oct 19, 2021 08:40:00 AM by KDU
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Colin Powell

Where is the logical fallacy here?  Colin Powell was fully vaxxed and yet he died from complications from Covid-19. Therefore, the vaccines do not work.  

asked on Monday, Oct 18, 2021 03:56:15 PM by Shawn
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Is There A Logical Fallacy Here?

Often when you're in a debate you get a response such as this "there is nothing that can be done". Would this be an error in reasoning because there are no alternatives presented? Or is there a finite point that nothing can really be done? If there ...

asked on Monday, Oct 18, 2021 03:10:40 PM by Anthony Lasiloo
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What logical fallacies are in this depopulation by vaccination argument?

P1: There is a globalist conspiracy to depopulate the earth with covid vaccines.  P2: 100s of Dr's say the vaccines are dangerous, kill people, and are causing the outbreak.  P3: None of these Dr's have been sued by the vaccine manufactu...

asked on Monday, Oct 18, 2021 01:49:36 PM by Jason Mathias
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Is there a logical fallacy here? "The universe could be infinite in size".

(What follows is a philosophical, theoretical scenario.) Is any of it fallacious? Bill (B) : I think the universe could be infinite in size, and in all directions. Joe (J) : infinity is a mathematical concept, which cannot be actualised. There is ...

asked on Sunday, Oct 17, 2021 12:45:40 PM by Jim
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China had the capability to create Covid-19.

Is this a logical fallacy? China had the capability and biological warfare programs to create Covid-19. Therefore, China did create covid-19. 

asked on Saturday, Oct 16, 2021 02:14:04 PM by Jason Mathias
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99% survival rate of covid-19, therefore we should do nothing to stop it.

What fallacy is this? Person 1: Covid has a 99% survival rate, therefore we should not be wearing masks, taking vaccines and implementing mandates. 

asked on Saturday, Oct 16, 2021 11:44:38 AM by Jason Mathias
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Gaps fallacy

Person1: DNA is encoded information, a language with rules like spoken words or a computer code. The cell contains nanomolecular machinery that reads and interprets this information to build the structures of the cell. There is no known material sub...

asked on Wednesday, Oct 13, 2021 05:41:18 PM by Daniel
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Is this a valid or fallacious argument, and why?

If dinosaurs died millions of years ago, then scientists wouldn’t find DNA in dinosaur fossils. Scientists found DNA in dinosaur fossils. Therefore, dinosaurs didn’t die millions of years ago. The argument form would resemble this (...

asked on Monday, Oct 11, 2021 08:49:04 PM by mnac87
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