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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How many fallacies are in this quote?

“If biologists know anything at all about life, they know that every activity within even the simplest known living cell is exquisitely organized. Life is genomically and epigenomically controlled and regulated. How did that organization, pres...

asked on Wednesday, Jun 30, 2021 01:32:19 AM by mnac87
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Trust

1. We should trust scientists because scientists says so 2. But that will be appel to authority. 3. Therefore we shouldnt trust any scientists

asked on Tuesday, Jun 29, 2021 10:19:56 PM by fearnone
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Should we drink Dihydrogen monoxide ?

1. Scientist claims we shouldnt drink Dihydrogen monoxide. 2. Scientist tells us we should drink water and aviod Dihydrogen monoxide as much as possible. 3. Therefore we should drink water and not Dihydrogen monoxide   

asked on Tuesday, Jun 29, 2021 06:50:31 AM by fearnone
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First cause? someone or something

Does the uncaused thing be nessesary god? Or is it something else that is uncaused?  Do we have to tell the uncaused thing god or tell something that is uncaused which is not beyond the universe

asked on Tuesday, Jun 29, 2021 02:42:37 AM by Fearnone
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Fallacy or not?

Daniel: God exists  Sam: Prove it Daniel: Can a copy create itself? Sam: No. Daniel: How can nature create itself? Daniel: natural things cant move beacause they need some agency to move therefore, god exists  

asked on Monday, Jun 28, 2021 10:55:34 PM by Fearnone
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Fallacy or not?

Person A claims that how do you know indonesia exists? And Person B claims the I have visited. Then person A claims that how do you know it exists? person B claims Because I have experienced it. And then person A claims that if you have experienced ...

asked on Monday, Jun 28, 2021 08:55:12 AM by Fearnone
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Non Sequitur?

Eat more chocolate cakes so you'll end up baking them perfectly without practicing. 

asked on Monday, Jun 28, 2021 08:46:52 AM by Nathan Slash
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Is This Fallacy of Equivocation?

She asked her mom to teach her how to perfectly cook heart-shaped  pancakes since the ones she cooks always look ‘heartbroken’

asked on Monday, Jun 28, 2021 04:26:43 AM by Nathan Slash
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Fallacies of Relevance

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid. Which Fallacy of relevance is present here?

asked on Sunday, Jun 27, 2021 10:37:50 PM by Manjari
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Which kind of FALLACY does it fall under

Hi, Which kind of FALLACY does it fall under:  1- Cows eat grass 2- Humans eat cows Conclusion - Humans eat grass

asked on Sunday, Jun 27, 2021 05:57:05 PM by Hossain
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