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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Question about modus tollens

Hi,   I would like to know if this form of argument is valid or not: P1) If A is not true, then B is not true P2) B is true C1) A is true   Thanks!

asked on Monday, Nov 29, 2021 09:33:53 AM by Alex
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Presenting an impossible condition.

I was in a disagreement with someone about speed limits, I went into great detail about what's been shown to exacerbates speed limit-non compliance, as in what leads to people paying less attention to speed limits as in arbitrary placing of boundari...

asked on Saturday, Nov 27, 2021 09:22:14 PM by Alex Hosking
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Ad hominem

Is there a specific name for an ad hominem fallacy where someone targets traits that they don't even know that the other person has? For instance, I've seen it happen where they make an assumption about the size of the other person's certain anatomi...

asked on Friday, Nov 26, 2021 06:47:56 AM by Philip
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Black people don’t like Kanye West

I have a far left Black friend who told me that, “Black people don’t like Kanye West”.  There are a lot of things wrong with this sentence, such as the fact that one far left Black person does not speak for all Black people, b...

asked on Tuesday, Nov 23, 2021 11:28:47 AM by noblenutria@gmail.com
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Ben and Jerry's Fallacy?

The owners of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream are boycotting Israel over its treatment of Palestinians. In this video -  Ben and Jerry: Hypocrites?  - a woman suggests they're hypocrites because they aren't also boycotting Georgia and Texas, whe...

asked on Sunday, Nov 21, 2021 03:14:03 AM by WebRanger
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Absolute, and, Total Denial

My question is this: if, someone resorts to outright denial (I have in mind, a friend, who will take this stance, whenever the topic of biblical error/contradiction, comes up), is this a ' logical fallacy ' - by any stretch? It seems so, to me, but ...

asked on Saturday, Nov 20, 2021 01:38:30 PM by Dale Alan Bryant
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A Logical analysis of this argument in the Rittenhouse trial.

"Mr. Rittenhouse, why didn't you let the person trying to kill you kill you before you decided to defend yourself." Seems like a presupposition that the person he killed was going to kill him. After all, that assumption is unknowable and we cant...

asked on Saturday, Nov 20, 2021 11:41:17 AM by Jason Mathias
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When logic fallacy is when a Conspiracy theorist implies Peer reviewed, double blind Studies with huge sample sizes are forged to an agenda ?

I understand their trying to “imply” bias for vaccine studies something similar to bias news sources spouting what ever narrative. This just seems like an unfalsifiable claim with the statically probability that somehow all these studies...

asked on Thursday, Nov 18, 2021 10:24:21 PM by alex
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fallacy question

been looking at some covid related stuff and have been a usual seeing people saying that the cdc is unreliable and so without giving anything to support it, wondering what fallacy this commits?

asked on Thursday, Nov 18, 2021 06:43:05 PM by logan
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A question about the genetic fallacy

Hello! I was wondering if this applies to the genetic fallacy: 1) Group A is very virtuous and pious. 2) Therefore, what Group A says is true. Or is this another type of fallacy?  Regards.

asked on Thursday, Nov 18, 2021 04:28:36 PM by Alex
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