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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Weak Analogy?

1. Human body is more complex than a snowman. 2. Nature can't create snowman which is less complex than humans 3. Therefore nature can't create human and hence god exists.

asked on Tuesday, Jul 20, 2021 06:34:53 AM by Lynx Ssss
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Is this a logical fallacy?

1. Daniel claims that you should trust God exists because he said so to people. 2. Max claims that it is circular reasoning and it can also be alien's communicating it can be anything. 3. Daniel claims that when you call a person you see that it i...

asked on Monday, Jul 19, 2021 05:33:22 AM by Lynx Ssss
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Educated people are not rude

There was an article where a scientist expressed the argument that unvaccinated people against COVID-19 provide hospitality for the virus to multiply(in a far greater degree than in a vaccinated person) and therefore pose a greater risk for the viru...

asked on Sunday, Jul 18, 2021 05:09:26 AM by Kostas Oikonomou
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Can someone help me out with all the fallacies and manipulation tactics in this argument? As well as the moral dilemma.

(Person 1 and person 2 live together. Person 1 pays all the bills, person 2 does all the home chores) Person 2: My friend invited me to go to an amusement park so I am going.  Person 1: I have a personal choice of not exposing myself to lots ...

asked on Saturday, Jul 17, 2021 09:32:44 PM by Jason Mathias
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Perjury/Blasphemy Trap

This is sort of a Morton's Fork type question that I see mostly judges and cops ask in the presence of an audience whose purpose is to induce the Social Desirability Effect in the mind and behavior of the one being questioned. A person in court/jai...

asked on Friday, Jul 16, 2021 04:30:16 PM by Richard
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Is this a Fallacy

“I'm sure I'll take you with pleasure!" the Queen said. "Twopence a week, and jam every other day." Alice couldn't help laughing, as she said, "I don't want you to hire me - and I don't care for jam." "It's very good jam," said the Queen. "Wel...

asked on Friday, Jul 16, 2021 03:58:31 PM by Zakari
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Is this apparently nonsensical statement logically valid?

If 2+6=9 then  2+6+2+6=18

asked on Friday, Jul 16, 2021 02:10:40 PM by Jim
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Where is the logical fallacy in this statement?

I found this statement on twitter:  "If America is so racist, why is it the most popular country for people to immigrate to?" Where is the logical fallacy? 

asked on Wednesday, Jul 14, 2021 08:57:37 AM by Shawn
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Evaluation of Kalam cosmological argument

Are there any flaws with this argument? 1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause. 2. The universe began to exist. C. Therefore, the universe has a cause. I don't believe this is an argument for God since God is not part of the argument. The ar...

asked on Monday, Jul 12, 2021 07:46:47 PM by Lars C
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Following something ideologically, not practically

Suppose I follow something ideologically, not practically. Does it fall under any fallacy OR if someone accuses me of that, will he be making any fallacy? There are things we DONT FOLLOW practically but we do approve it or follow ideologically. ...

asked on Sunday, Jul 11, 2021 09:16:06 AM by Hossain
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