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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What fallacy is in this gun meme?

"My teacher said guns kill people."  (Pic of snarky kid) "I told her my pencil failed my last exam."   I'm guessing the argument would be laid out like this: Teacher: Guns kill people.  Student: Guns don't kill people, people ki...

asked on Saturday, Apr 08, 2023 02:54:50 PM by Jason Mathias
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What are your thoughts on the recent Tiktok US congress hearing?

Just thought that the congress hearing was seriously funny. any striking fallacies that were striking to you?

asked on Monday, Mar 27, 2023 06:20:26 AM by Sam
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Anti-Bullying Movement

Many activist groups end up with a bad reputation because of the extremists that exist within and I'm wondering if the same has happened with the anti bullying movement.  One example of a complaint I hear all over the internet is that schools ...

asked on Thursday, Mar 16, 2023 04:06:46 PM by freckledfeline
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Any ideas?

Hi everyone! I need to base my research on a topic which has multiple existing and fallacious arguments (at least 6-8), and provide suggestions on how to make it not fallacious. Some examples of a topic would be arguments regarding Covid vaccines an...

asked on Sunday, Mar 12, 2023 08:55:44 PM by Sharon
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Question about irrelevant conclusion fallacy

There's this classic example of irrelevant conclusion fallacy about legislate on housing. Then a legislator comes in and says that the law should be approved because everyone deserves decent/dignified housing.  What i don't understand is, why ...

asked on Tuesday, Mar 07, 2023 12:24:32 AM by Ezequiel
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Paternalism

I wonder what logicallyfallacious.com called for the paternalism fallacy  Paternalism: A serious fallacy of ethos, arbitrarily tut-tutting, dismissing or ignoring another's arguments or concerns as "childish" or "immature;" taking a condescend...

asked on Sunday, Mar 05, 2023 09:51:39 AM by Joshua
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In the exception of ad hominem circumstancial you said the argument seen as less of a fallacy and more of a legitimate motive .how ? Does it refers to the counter made by someone ? Or it is about the person who have vested interest ?

asked on Friday, Mar 03, 2023 01:21:49 AM by Ms fame
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Can inferiority complex be seen as an informal fallacy?

I've noticed people can even be in self-contradiction when "hating" others but at the same time want to affiliate with them so badly. For example X hates Y and brags about imaginary "superiority." But at the same time X tries to affiliate with Y be...

asked on Thursday, Mar 02, 2023 03:34:01 AM by Nadir
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Is this making a presumption

From [here](https://www.newsweek.com/right-wing-pundit-joe-rogan-show-fact-checked-air-about-trans-claims-1757863): "If you're calling yourself nonbinary, you have dehumanized yourself, because human beings exist in a sex binary: male and female,"...

asked on Monday, Feb 27, 2023 05:22:41 PM by 87blue
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What fallacy is this? It's not right for our government to pay off all student debts when I had to pay off all of mine.

asked on Monday, Feb 20, 2023 09:14:53 PM by Daniel