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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Promiscuity: Men vs Women

A young man (Joey) who has never had sex is talking to a friend. He says, “Holy cow, it’s so hard to meet women, and it’s impossible to meet a virgin. Maybe I should go look for a wife in another country, where the women aren&rsquo...

asked on Friday, May 19, 2023 11:12:55 PM by David Blomstrom
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Responding a question with another question

In a group of logical fallacies I started this new post to engage with the community in some healty conversations with arguments around any topic.  I then asked the question:  " Why aren't you vegan ?" I now realize that I supposed mayb...

asked on Wednesday, May 17, 2023 05:01:16 AM by TheBlueDragonfly
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wrongly accused of cherry picking

In an online discussion I confronted myself with someone that has very different ideas from me. She accused me of Cherry Picking, but as I later demostrated, there is a whole corpe of scientific evidence and international bodies that support my thes...

asked on Tuesday, May 16, 2023 09:44:37 AM by TheBlueDragonfly
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The people you vote kill people at the borders and you are worried about this graffiti

Today I saw a graffiti on the inside wall of a university class, saying: "The people you vote kill people at the borders and you are worried about this graffiti" This would make sense only if someone was able to worry about one thing at a time, so...

asked on Monday, May 15, 2023 08:06:03 PM by Kostas Oikonomou
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So children need a mother and father, and not just loving parents in general?

From here : Same-sex parenting is an abusive practice whereby two gay adults contrive to deprive a helpless child of the love and support of a mother or father.   This is making a lot of assumptions, like a child NEEDS EXACTLY BOTH at the ...

asked on Friday, May 12, 2023 08:15:23 PM by 87blue
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Can Deductive arguments change in circumstances?

“All Wars end by Negotiating, therefore we need to negotiate with Russia.”  I think it’s a none sequitor and the fact the term Negotiating is extremely broad, which can mean anything from Unconditional surrender to prolonged...

asked on Tuesday, May 09, 2023 10:58:55 AM by alex
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Does the Statement “There are No facts, only Opinions” disprove it self?

I’ve had people say this to me with such confidence and I’m always blown away unless I’m missing something. What’s stranger to me is that this Statement is always used as like a last line of defense to me it refutes what ever...

asked on Monday, May 08, 2023 09:53:40 PM by alex
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Is there such as thing as the "ill-informed opponent" fallacy?

What name is given to the fallacy of assuming your opponent holds their position, only because they don't have all the facts? I don’t mean the fallacy of not having all the facts. I mean a fallacy you have about your opponent. If I had to th...

asked on Monday, May 08, 2023 11:28:28 AM by Michael
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Stating the Obvious

I don't know if this quite qualifies as a fallacy, but it's something I see fairly often. Someone will state something that is incredibly obvious in order to refute a comparatively complex position, as if to make it seem like that fact had not been ...

asked on Wednesday, May 03, 2023 07:43:57 PM by FormerRedditor
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Absence of term

Please name the fallacy involved when an assertion is based on the absence of a specific term in a written text, even though the concept is necessarily implied by the text's data.

asked on Saturday, Apr 29, 2023 06:03:08 PM by James
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