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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Are these fallacies, if so which fallacies?

"Among the man ills fatherlessness portends are much higher taes of teen drug abius, crime, pregnancy, and school dropouts. The evidence is clear 'man as idiot' isn't going over very well these days How fathers are portrayed is of particular imp...

asked on Sunday, Oct 20, 2019 12:54:20 AM by Nicole
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What fallacy is this?

Person T did something illegal and corrupt. People D take legal action against person T. Person T claims people D are idiots and therefor that means person T is innocent.

asked on Thursday, Oct 17, 2019 09:31:22 PM by Jason Mathias
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Does a pattern constitute evidence, logic or both?

Before they unraveled the secrets of DNA, scientists used a variety of patterns to help them classify living things. These patterns included similarities in appearance and behavior, similar range, and relationships reconstructed from the fossil recor...

asked on Sunday, Oct 13, 2019 12:23:24 AM by David Blomstrom
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Creating Kafkaesque systems deliberately to dissuade competition, make is super difficult

I will give an example of this type of madness. INDIA - Every year millions of people compete for a less than 10,000 college seats in IITs across India, the only colleges worth pursuing a degree in, due to the dismal conditions of education in the re...

asked on Friday, Oct 11, 2019 08:30:36 PM by boniaditya
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Good Does Not Offset Bad

President Trump has said on a number of occasions, "How can they impeach me when I'm doing such a great job?" Is the fallacy here merely a non-sequitur (job performance is unrelated to whether an impeachable offense has been committed), or ...

asked on Thursday, Oct 10, 2019 12:22:17 PM by Jim
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How would you characterise the fallacies in this statement: "If prisoners receive free meals, why don't students- our future doctors, artists, engineers, etc.- also get free meals?

asked on Thursday, Oct 10, 2019 06:03:03 AM by Shaun
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fallacy of intended use

On a Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3SOBsoY9Mg the presenter offers the 'fallacy of intended use', i.e. if A is intended for purpose B, it is immoral to use it for any other purpose. Is there another name for this?

asked on Tuesday, Oct 08, 2019 07:07:15 AM by Dave
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I saw this question today on Quora and immediately shared it here

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-common-logical-fallacies-used-in-arguments-for-and-against-AGW What are the common fallacies used in arguments for and against AGW? Enjoy! Edit: I let the Quora folks know this question was here, so you may see so...

asked on Tuesday, Oct 01, 2019 02:17:25 PM by DrBill
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Never Being Named Directly - Fallacy or Fair Argument?

For example Bob robs a bank, but indirect evidence plus multiple corroborating eyewitness testimonies implicates another man, Steve in helping Bob plan the heist. However, some police reports (not all, some are still hidden in the archives) leak to t...

asked on Monday, Sep 30, 2019 07:22:45 PM by dartagnan
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Asking extremely basic questions to win arguments - Name the bias or the fallacy at play

Recently I went to a product manager interview. They asked a few questions, for which I gave the answers. But eventually, one interviewer asked extremely trivial questions i.e. the first year of graduation questions - How does the wifi router work? H...

asked on Sunday, Sep 29, 2019 07:15:00 AM by boniaditya
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