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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Assuming Heather McDonald collapsed due to COVID-19 vaccine

In February, the comedian Heather McDonald collapsed on stage just after making the following joke: "I don’t mean to brag, I don’t care, but I want you to know: double vaxxed, booster, flu shot, and — I’m going to be honest ...

asked on Sunday, May 22, 2022 02:55:15 AM by KDU
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The opposite of representativeness bias.

With the representativeness bias we think that a couple of examples are representative of the whole, what would be the name of the bias or the fallacy when it is thought that the whole faithfully represents each one of the individuals?

asked on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 10:59:48 PM by Joaquín García
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Pretend that my views represent everyone in the broader group

Let’s say aliens come to earth and they have heard of socialism but they don’t really know what it is.  The aliens ask me to define it.  Let’s say I am a democratic socialist and I know that there are dozens of different ...

asked on Sunday, May 15, 2022 11:38:41 AM by noblenutria@gmail.com
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Skeptical Scenarios vs Real World

What makes it so that we can reasonably conclude that we live in a real world other than something like a dream or an illusion created by out minds? Should we be worried that we live in a illusion created by our minds, aka solipsism? 

asked on Sunday, May 15, 2022 02:04:15 AM by Isaiah
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Read this somewhere in reddit. Is this a fallacy?

Any fallacies evident in either statement? A: Reading book X (Bible, Mein Kampfe, etc) is worthwhile because there are gems of (wisdom, insight, etc) inside. B: You can find whole kernels in a pile of feces, too, but that still doesn't make it a rea...

asked on Friday, May 13, 2022 11:20:44 PM by VanDisease
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Is this An example of Kettle Logic?

A. Astrology is backed up by science  B. Absolutely not go to any university and look for the Astrology department.    A. Well you know science has been wrong before..    B. Science is based on any new observation of evi...

asked on Thursday, May 12, 2022 04:42:49 PM by alex
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Discrimination was right because the people I chose were competent.

If I were to say decide I want to deliberate a ginger hair owned car garage, and then justify this afterward by the fact that they either did a good job and/or were one of the ginger garages known to do a good job, therefore I was not unfairly discr...

asked on Wednesday, May 11, 2022 04:32:19 PM by Alex Hosking
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Fake moon landing argument I see a lot.

  P1: They claim we went to the moon 50 years ago by using technology.  P2: We cant go to the moon today.  P3: We have a lot more advanced technology today than we did 50 years ago.  P4: It takes technology to go to the moon....

asked on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 09:04:19 AM by Jason Mathias
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Dominant group projecting on a minority group

I sense that there is some kind of logical error here, but I cant put my finger on it.  In the U.S, the dominant group are white straight men. They are at the top of the social hierarchy and hold power. The dominate society and culture is orie...

asked on Sunday, May 08, 2022 10:41:40 PM by Jason Mathias
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Can it be false dichotomy?

As you all have heard of the Roe v. Wade decision (I presume), the classic debate spreads like wildfire everywhere in social media. However, I saw one very interesting take on this debate amongst all the chaos, surprisingly on twitter from all place...

asked on Sunday, May 08, 2022 06:31:54 AM by Jacob
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