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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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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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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