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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Slippery Slope or Non Sequitur????

I teach argument basics and am revamping my fallacies lesson.  A student sent me this picture of an obvious fallacy.  I am stuck: is this a Slippery Slope or a Non Sequitur? Seems the steps are listed to qualify it as a Slippery Slope, but...

asked on Sunday, Oct 22, 2023 07:20:10 PM by Co-Lo
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Argument about history

Person 1: This historical figure was gay.  Person 2: This historical figure was not gay.  Person 1: How do you know, he could have been, what reason do you have to think they weren't gay?  Person 2: Because I have yet to see any su...

asked on Friday, Oct 20, 2023 12:41:07 AM by LF2023
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Consensus

What do you say to someone who argues that everything that is determined to be true is based around consensus, so if you have control of the consensus, and thus can manipulate the consensus to say whatever you want the consensus to say, you therefor...

asked on Sunday, Oct 15, 2023 05:11:59 AM by LF2023
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Argument

“ The data-driven bottom line is that “man/woman” and “masculine/feminine” are neither biological terms nor rooted exclusively in biology. The lack of an explicit binary is especially evident in humans given the complex neurobiologies, lif...

asked on Saturday, Oct 14, 2023 06:18:45 PM by Ethan
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Evolution

“I know evolution is true because we see evolution happening all the time.”  Is there a fallacy here? 

asked on Saturday, Oct 14, 2023 05:21:14 PM by Ethan
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Is it just me or is anyone else finding AI Fallacy Master irritating and wish it would go away?

asked on Saturday, Oct 14, 2023 07:03:59 AM by Petra Liverani
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Doing this one for fun/bored.

Person 1: So, what, you figured you'd just let 'em get away with 9/11? Person 2: Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11! And the war we started in lraq has killed a half a million of their people, which is like 200 9/11's. Person 3: So, I guess those mo...

asked on Friday, Oct 13, 2023 10:35:38 PM by Ethan
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Combination of weak arguments

Hello, Let's say someone has an argument A. I can easily prove that A doesn't apply to everything. They then say another argument, B. I can also dismantle it. Then they say another weak argument C. All of these 3 arguments cannot survive debunking...

asked on Thursday, Oct 12, 2023 07:48:12 AM by Bobby
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What fallacy

“I don't support what the government in Israel has done to the Palestinians, but support for Hamas and what they did is disgusting.” What is the fallacy, if any?

asked on Wednesday, Oct 11, 2023 10:36:48 PM by Ethan
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What Fallacies

“YES! We need to kill this idea that hierarchy is somehow inherently outdated and ‘bad’ (and the cousin of this argument, that networks are modern and ‘good’.) There can by tyranny not just in structurelessness, but in ...

asked on Wednesday, Oct 11, 2023 08:50:30 PM by Ethan
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