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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Which kind of FALLACY does it fall under

Hi, Which kind of FALLACY does it fall under:  1- Cows eat grass 2- Humans eat cows Conclusion - Humans eat grass

asked on Sunday, Jun 27, 2021 05:57:05 PM by Hossain
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What do you call a contradiction that spawns another contradiction?

In the doctrine of the Trinity, it is claimed that there are 3 persons in the one God. The defining characteristics of God are omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence and omnibenevolence. Under intense questioning, the proponent agrees that each pers...

asked on Saturday, Jun 26, 2021 05:53:26 AM by Jim
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Voting

I am going to present two separate arguments here. The first one is:  "If you voted for Donald Trump then you are an active white supremacist." A completely different one here is: "If you are black and voted for trump, then you are a sellout...

asked on Friday, Jun 25, 2021 12:49:08 PM by Electrical
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What kind of fallacy is "practice makes perfect, but nobody is perfect therefore I do not need to practice" ?

asked on Thursday, Jun 24, 2021 12:06:10 PM by Nathan Slash
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Claiming statements as opinions

What fallacy is it when someone claims that something they've said is 'just [their] opinion' when it's actually not an opinion? For instance, I recently had quite a lengthy argument with someone about Pluto who kept insisting that it's 'still the 9t...

asked on Thursday, Jun 24, 2021 07:27:42 AM by Philip
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What kind of fallacy is it when you ask someone where they would like to eat and they say "anywhere" ?

asked on Thursday, Jun 24, 2021 01:53:15 AM by Nathan Slash
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when opponent asks to ignore certain information

I have been trying to figure out if the following statement is a fallacy for a while. It usually crops up when I'm having a more philosophical debate with someone, so I'm not sure if it can be logically fallacious, but it feels very wrong to me. Si...

asked on Wednesday, Jun 23, 2021 06:58:44 AM by Jay
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An appeal to extremes?

"If collecting taxes on sex work is simply the government assuming the role of pimp, then the government is pimping all paid workers."

asked on Tuesday, Jun 15, 2021 03:57:19 PM by mnac87
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'No hypotheticals' move

Sometimes a person will refuse to consider hypothetical statements. The underlying logic is that because they are hypotheticals, they do not apply to real life (and are therefore irrelevant). This would probably count as a B-list fallacy (if Dr Bo i...

asked on Monday, Jun 14, 2021 02:49:25 PM by Rationalissimus of the Elenchus
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Presentism fallacy

I notice that this fallacy doesn't seem to be on this site. It means judging things that happened in the past by present day moral standards, which in many cases isn't really fair. For instance, people often complain about things in old films or TV ...

asked on Monday, Jun 14, 2021 09:41:43 AM by Philip
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