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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If X had cut the world in half.

If X had cut the world in half, then G (Gravity) would collapse the world. Is this a slippery slope fallacy?

asked on Monday, Aug 12, 2024 03:05:15 AM by Zaroastria
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What fallacy is this?

I am trying to point out that putting kids on sex offender registries is a bad idea , and this guy  says Neither does you defending kids having sex when they don't even know what it means to be an adult. You may keep saying "No", but your ac...

asked on Sunday, Aug 11, 2024 07:02:04 PM by 87blue
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Corrupt Union Paradox

If you criticize corruption in your union, co-workers often say, "The union kept me from getting fired!" I know, that's a statement, not an argument. However, it's kinda sorta an implied argument: I know the union is good because it kept me from ge...

asked on Saturday, Aug 10, 2024 01:00:38 PM by David Blomstrom
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Appeal to emotions

I was asked by a former pastor what do you think is going to happen to you in the next 100 years? Then, he said give it 5 years and your life will change once you put trust and faith in Jesus Christ. He asked these questions because I didn't want to...

asked on Friday, Aug 09, 2024 08:16:27 PM by Kris
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Applying Modus Tolens to unsupported claim

Example 1 If God does not exist, moral knowledge does not exist. Moral knowledge exists. Therefore, God exists. Following that kind of reasoning we can argue, Example 2 If the Flying Spaghetti Monster does not exist, spaghetti does not exist., Spag...

asked on Friday, Aug 09, 2024 05:29:20 PM by Kostas Oikonomou
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What's wrong with this logic?

95% of all crime is caused by the conditions of poverty. There is no such thing as reform without eliminating poverty, by including the entirety of our citizenry adequately. 

asked on Friday, Aug 09, 2024 01:42:26 AM by Kris
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What fallacies are "Transvestigators" operating under

I am talking about the people described here: https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=transvestigators   Basically they overfocus on phenotypic traits they expect to find in a sex at a certain level as well, as well as determin...

asked on Tuesday, Aug 06, 2024 09:28:32 PM by 87blue
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Appeal to emotions

Since you're against abortion and you are pro life, what about the kids who are in foster care who need homes? Why aren't you adopting them? 

asked on Friday, Aug 02, 2024 08:38:07 PM by Kris
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Definition

What about this?   You can’t define in the moment the concept you are trying to talk about. Therefore the concept doesn’t exist and you have no idea what you’re talking about.  Person 1: Wokeness is destroying soci...

asked on Friday, Aug 02, 2024 12:18:25 PM by LF2023
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What's wrong with this logic?

A real man would get married because he's not afraid of commitment. 

asked on Friday, Aug 02, 2024 02:17:43 AM by Kris
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