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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How might one define magic logically?

Now I know that there are many definitions for magic itself online, but how would this pertain to magical thinking when defining magic? Could it be defined as unknown science, perhaps?

asked on Sunday, Mar 13, 2022 03:51:29 PM by Epsodom
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Fallacies in this text?

You think about what MLK stood for,” Mr DeSantis said on 15 December. “He said he didn’t want people judged on the colour of their skin, but on the content of their character. You listen to some of these people nowadays, they don&r...

asked on Sunday, Mar 13, 2022 09:09:05 AM by Jakub M
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Political Fallacy?

A lot of republicans are saying that if Trump was president the war in the Ukraine would of never happened! That Putin would of been scared of Trump! Also that Trump is tough and means business unlike Biden who is seen as weak!

asked on Sunday, Mar 13, 2022 08:58:07 AM by Jakub M
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What’s the fallacy in this argument?

When I was a little girl my grandpa took my out shooting in his backyard. I used to hit food cans with BB guns. He was obviously the person Barrack Obama had in mind when he famously and derisively mocked gun owners and other rural people as clinger...

asked on Saturday, Mar 12, 2022 04:49:30 PM by Jakub M
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The, "Asking for a friend" phrase.

I have noticed a lot of social media memes use the phrase, "asking for a friend" after they have hidden a false or misleading suggestion/claim into a question. The phrase seems to be used as a subtile manipulation tactic to help convince people of t...

asked on Saturday, Mar 12, 2022 11:28:30 AM by Jason Mathias
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Is this a thought terminating cliche

“Only you are responsible for your own actions”. A common saying  that seems overtly dismissive of any context of why someone committed  their actions. It’s just the same thing is as saying your actions don’t make y...

asked on Wednesday, Mar 09, 2022 11:51:20 PM by alex
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Talking about your point of view like it's axiomatic.

A bit like saying, "I don't know why you're questioning this, you're so obviously wrong, you're making yourself look stupid" with little to nothing to back it up. Or there's making out that what you're disputing isn't generally disputed. Or just mak...

asked on Wednesday, Mar 09, 2022 06:43:33 PM by Alex Hosking
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Is there a correlation causation fallacy?

For example:  Republicans blaming Biden for high gas prices because of correlation not causation. They conflate the two and assume correlation is causation. The correlation being gas prices went up during Biden's presidency. Therefore, Biden m...

asked on Wednesday, Mar 09, 2022 12:06:08 PM by Jason Mathias
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How to refute an argument based on “It makes me feel good what’s wrong with that”?

I noticed perhaps when I push an argument to absurdity maybe it comes off as condescending or equivocating. Or perhaps it goes right Over their head. Someone told me that if thinking homeopathy makes them feel better why is that bad? I told taking p...

asked on Tuesday, Mar 08, 2022 10:44:26 PM by alex
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They all disagree so its all bunk

What if I said that the study of economics is pointless because everyone disagrees and therefore the whole subject is bunk?  This is bad reasoning but is it a fallacy?  Mathematicians agree that 2+2=4 but there is much less consensus over ...

asked on Monday, Mar 07, 2022 10:30:48 PM by noblenutria@gmail.com
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