Ask Your Questions About Logical Fallacies

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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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Guilt Trip

Men, you should stop ignoring all the single moms out there. We are literally the missing piece of your puzzle. 

asked on Wednesday, Jul 31, 2024 07:47:26 AM by Kris
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Who should be in power

Another thing which I heard in college, sometime implied, though other times explicitly stated, was basically something along the lines of this: Men have always been in power, and terrible things have occurred throughout human history, and women ha...

asked on Tuesday, Jul 30, 2024 05:02:37 PM by LF2023
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Fallacy of "all or nothing"

Does there exist a fallacy for when somebody claims that because something isn't 100% true is must necessarily be false?  EX: "Vegetarians say they're acting humane by not eating animals but they still wear products made by them."

asked on Tuesday, Jul 30, 2024 04:48:02 PM by Charly Eaton
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Fallacy from college

This is one I’d heard in college and it stuck with me. Basically the gist of it was, it’s hard to quantify exactly how many “races” there in humanity given the vast seemingly diverse populations that exist in the world, there...

asked on Monday, Jul 29, 2024 11:28:49 AM by LF2023
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Atheist on God

Is there a fallacy being committed when Richard Dawkins is using an argument wherein he’s comparing God, that being of course the God of the Bible, to a Flying Spaghetti Monster? 

asked on Monday, Jul 29, 2024 11:21:23 AM by LF2023
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Inventing context that isn't there.

What fallacy is this :  The reason I distrust the Zebra Youth program is because it's associated with Disney, who are letting naked men at their pride parades, which is a form of grooming as children getting used to nudity reduces their insti...

asked on Sunday, Jul 28, 2024 11:39:35 PM by 87blue
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Logical Fallacies on the Left

Just out of curiosity, what are some logical fallacies someone can point out to me that are usually used by members of the left wing of the American political spectrum? Liberals, progressives, socialists, communists, etc. Also why these fallacious a...

asked on Friday, Jul 26, 2024 12:55:30 AM by LF2023
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Life

Why bother taking care of yourself, eating right, and exercising? Your just wasting what time you have, we’re all going to die anyway. Hell you could get hit by a bus tomorrow so what does it matter?  What fallacious reasoning is being ...

asked on Tuesday, Jul 23, 2024 06:15:56 PM by LF2023
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God

God doesn’t reveal himself more obviously therefore he doesn’t exist. God let’s bad things happen therefore he doesn’t exist. The only mention of god is in a book that was written thousands of years ago by people therefore ...

asked on Tuesday, Jul 23, 2024 06:11:20 PM by LF2023
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What kind of fallacy makes invalid assumptions about key players?

Some propagandists claim that 1) if the first moon landing was faked, then 2) it would have been a plot involving a huge number of conspirators (I think some sources cite something like 400,000). Therefore, there couldn't have been a conspiracy sinc...

asked on Saturday, Jul 20, 2024 08:26:03 PM by David Blomstrom
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