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's wrong with this logic?

THE AVERAGE MAN TODAY.   1. No masculinity.    2. No skills.   3. No confidence.   4. No financial literacy   5. No discpline.   6. No purpose.   7. No emotional intelligence.   8. No meaningful pursuit.    9. No workout...

asked on Saturday, Jul 20, 2024 02:43:54 AM by Kris
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What fallacy is it to dismiss something by comparing it to something similiar?

I am talking about the argument made in this tweet .

asked on Friday, Jul 19, 2024 06:10:02 PM by 87blue
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What fallacy is this being used to ignore my sources

So I was giving a lengthy argument full of citations and sources against someone.  His response : No, I just refuse to communicate with a person who is so lazy he cannot formulate his own ideas. Form a defence formed in logic and then use th...

asked on Friday, Jul 19, 2024 01:35:42 PM by 87blue
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Missing the forest for the trees.

With the current talk about "DEI" I wonder, are they conflating something bad/failure with skin color (i.e "They only got the job because they are a minority, not because they are good at their job!"). Not only that but would they be overfocusing on...

asked on Thursday, Jul 18, 2024 05:27:19 PM by 87blue
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Is everyone in this Reddit thread doing "No True Scotsman"?

The basic gist of this post is the idea that the Trump Assassin, Thomas Crooks, despite evidence of voting Republican ,  he was anti-Trump, and thus not Republican. What idiots like you fail to understand is that it doesn't matter what his vo...

asked on Wednesday, Jul 17, 2024 11:55:35 PM by 87blue
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What's wrong with this logic?

Men can make hundreds of babies per year. Women can only make one. You're holding the wrong sex accountable. 

asked on Tuesday, Jul 16, 2024 05:24:32 PM by Kris
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the fallacy of the non-demonstrable fundamental component

Virology is a science that has a fundamental definition that an inactive/“dead” virus enters a cell and hijacks cell functions for replication  If there is no reproducible non-circular science that experimentally demonstrated this ...

asked on Tuesday, Jul 16, 2024 02:34:38 PM by Steven Avery
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I feel this is reductive

From here : Sorry, but intersex people don't actually exist, in the sense that I think you're trying to imply. No one is born with both sexes or somewhere in the middle of both sexes.     What happens is that people are born with ...

asked on Monday, Jul 15, 2024 10:27:39 PM by 87blue
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I speak for a group

Someone announces that they speak for a group because they SAY they are part of that group.

asked on Sunday, Jul 14, 2024 01:22:47 PM by Ted
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A fallacy in Exception part of "Appeal to Emotion"

"Exceptions: Appealing to emotions is a very powerful and necessary technique in persuasion .   We are emotional creatures ; therefore, we often make decisions and form beliefs erroneously based on emotions, when reason and logic tell us other...

asked on Sunday, Jul 14, 2024 09:38:05 AM by Reza
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