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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Fallacies?

Trump has you guys literally grading evil on a curve. If Trump locked a woman in a basement, forced her to have his babies, and then burned the house down with her in it to hide the evidence, you'd say, ‘At least he’s not a cannibal beca...

asked 19 hours ago by Kris
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what logical fallacies are being committed here?

Person 1: you are clouded by misinformation from Russia. person 2: you are a dictator, because you didn't call for an election when you time to be in office was over. Yes person 1 did not call for an election because his nation is being attacked b...

asked 21 hours ago by Burtons
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DEI being hijacked by extreme left of the LGBTQ community. Opinion?

Do you really think parading people like Sam Brinton, the guy with his head shaved, a beard, wearing an off the shoulder red sequin dress and earrings have people saying "we need more like him in our organization." If we would have sent him into a p...

asked on Monday, Feb 17, 2025 10:56:26 PM by Manstett
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Fallacy?

I find it strange when people say they can't afford kids. Your ancestors were able to afford kids for the past 300,000 years. Are we really less wealthy now? You might think your parents were better off, but how about further back? They still went o...

asked on Sunday, Feb 16, 2025 07:20:27 PM by Kris
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America’s foreign policy versus domestic needs. False equivalence?

Do you take care of a neighbor first while knowing that your own family is in need? Do you personally donate money to charities that you don't have? The same fiscal responsibility each of us exercises (or should exercise) in our homes should carry f...

asked on Friday, Feb 14, 2025 08:53:27 PM by Manstett
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Trump’s policies as to civil liberties and freedoms.

The point of the discussion with an acquaintance is whether or not Trump’s policies are lessening civil liberties and freedoms in the US.  My position is yes, the respodent’s is no. Their response was a “Gish Gallop” loa...

asked on Tuesday, Feb 11, 2025 02:50:28 PM by Manstett
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Fallacies

 Person 1: women should be in charge because men have had it too good for too long. Person 2: If you knew anything about human history you’d know that’s not true, sure while perhaps there may have been relatively more privileges for...

asked on Sunday, Feb 09, 2025 11:30:27 PM by LF2023
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Fallacy?

In regards to illegal immigration, I saw a sign that reads "No one Is illegal on stolen land". 

asked on Wednesday, Feb 05, 2025 04:38:00 PM by Kris
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Hasty generalization?

A man wanted to give me a pamphlet about Jesus, I replied No thank you! His reply...aren't you saved? If you're saved, why don't you want to read about Jesus and the sacrifice that he made? Since your rejecting this pamphlet, it sounds like you're r...

asked on Monday, Jan 27, 2025 12:15:20 AM by Kris
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Fallacy?

How can “science” tell you where to draw the line between bad behavior and sickness? If a therapist is to remain neutral in values, then why should one state of mind be considered preferable to another? If guilt is sometimes a misguided ...

asked on Wednesday, Jan 15, 2025 12:52:30 AM by Kris
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