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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Objective reality

What are arguments in favor of objective reality?  Are they right?  Are human beings really just blank slates? Is there anything in human nature?  How could one make solid arguments for determinism?  Can anyone find fallac...

asked on Saturday, Oct 07, 2023 04:47:14 PM by Ethan
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Communism

Are there any logical fallacies one can point to in communism?  Does communism ignore “human nature” and is it a form of Utopianism?  To that end can someone point out fallacies in the concept of Utopianism.  Can some...

asked on Saturday, Oct 07, 2023 04:41:00 PM by Ethan
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Suicidality

Let’s say you are arguing with a person about the topic of trans issues. You bring up what you know about what biologically makes someone either male or female. Chromosomes, gonads, hormones etc.  They say that male and female are just l...

asked on Saturday, Oct 07, 2023 04:31:19 PM by Ethan
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Arguing with someone about politics

What if you are arguing with someone and they say that we should stop perpetuating an idea, even if it’s true, because then it will perpetuate oppression, and make people kill themselves.  What are the logical fallacies in this. 

asked on Saturday, Oct 07, 2023 04:23:09 PM by Ethan
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Argument from the beard

Is using intersex individuals as a means of invalidity the notion of male and female binary in biological sex a continuum fallacy? 

asked on Saturday, Oct 07, 2023 04:12:09 PM by Ethan
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Logical Fallacies and Politics

What are some fallacies that left wing American politicians and activists use? 

asked on Saturday, Oct 07, 2023 04:07:49 PM by Ethan
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Reality

If you stop calling something by the title you’ve used to call it, is it still that thing?  If we stop calling Ancient Rome as Ancient Rome, rewrote all the history books calling it Ancient Rome, and again forced anyone who called it An...

asked on Saturday, Oct 07, 2023 03:55:58 PM by Ethan
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Social construction

What do you say to someone who says everything is a social construction, meaning everything is made up by man and has no existence beyond our perception?  Truth, Justice, Right, Wrong, Men, Women, even logical fallacies themselves.  So i...

asked on Saturday, Oct 07, 2023 03:48:54 PM by Ethan
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How do you know?

Let’s say hypothetically you are engaging in an argument with someone, and you provide all manner of facts to support your claims. These facts are provided by scientific journals, historical texts, dictionaries, everything you can manage to pr...

asked on Saturday, Oct 07, 2023 03:30:53 PM by Ethan
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What do you call the fallacy of "seeing the effect and assuming the cause"?

I often come across cases that I have labeled as "seeing the effect and assuming the cause". Is there a specific Dr. Bo's fallacy that covers this. Here are some examples -  1. Jack is all alone in a room. John enters the room to find that Ja...

asked on Saturday, Oct 07, 2023 01:57:12 AM by Prithvi Sreenivasan
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