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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Robison Crusoe Fallacy

I have come across the Robinson Crusoe Fallacy as an explanation about why some political divisions are so strong today.  Is there a good reference for discussion of this I can study?

asked on Sunday, Mar 03, 2024 01:33:23 PM by Skeptocrat
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Overconfidently, simplistically reducing everything that doesn't go our way to another person being bigoted.

I'm part of a Facebook group for Counsellors who practise a certain therapeutic modality. You can post relevant questions to ask experts and peers. Recently, a person posted this: "Insane how this question got approved, but the question I posed abo...

asked on Saturday, Mar 02, 2024 04:48:35 PM by Seamus
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What fallacy is this

Person 1 lights up a cigarette in the store And a security guard comes over and tells him that " you can't smoke in the store"  And Person 1's defense was " I served 30 years in the damn Navy, as a proud white supremacist and proud pedophile,...

asked on Thursday, Feb 15, 2024 08:51:33 AM by Billy
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Using reason to attack reason

What is the fallacy when a person uses reason to attack reason? Example: You should rely on faith, not reason, and here are the reasons. 

asked on Friday, Feb 09, 2024 12:44:52 PM by Dr. Richard
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The Lamb Fallacy

The Lamb Fallacy, or Fallacia Agnorum, is a type of faulty reasoning marked by intentional deception. It occurs when misleading information is used to create a distorted view of reality, leading people to accept conclusions that are logically unsoun...

asked on Sunday, Jan 28, 2024 03:40:39 AM by P.Oakes
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Fallacy of the Lamb-Fallacia Agnorum: has this fallacy already been termed?

i accidently coined a phrase while working on my book chapter about perception. so my question is... has this fallacy already been listed or is it a new one? Fallacia Agnorum, or "The Fallacy of the Lamb"  Conveys the idea that an indivi...

asked on Thursday, Jan 25, 2024 05:11:39 PM by P.Oakes
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Iraq War fallacy validation

The Visegrad 24 Twitter account said this: Number of Christians in Iraq: 1991  - 1.7 mln 2003 - 1.4 mln 2008 - 700K 2015 - 400K 2024 - 150K Any protest marches in London? Then another user quote retweeted that there were plenty of pr...

asked on Wednesday, Jan 24, 2024 10:20:36 AM by Huy-Quang Bui
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Dungeons and Dragons

The creator of this website might be familiar with this controversy since he was an 80's child. My mother moved to this country in the early 80's during the controversy with Dungeons and Dragons. She is warning me about playing this game since she r...

asked on Thursday, Jan 18, 2024 01:14:28 AM by Erica
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About dictators

"An overwhelming majority of dictators in the history of mankind are men." a) Do you think that this opinion of mine is based on facts and is not a fallacy? b) If it is a fallacy, which one is it? c) Another person answered to me, "Then an overwh...

asked on Wednesday, Jan 17, 2024 03:47:23 PM by Huy-Quang Bui
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Shaming Fallacies?

Ever since October 7 and the start of the Israel Hamas War, social media (in particular Twitter and Instagram) have been rife with arguments and statements aiming to shame people in not siding with one side or the other. From my reading of it over t...

asked on Monday, Jan 15, 2024 03:24:08 AM by Douglas Arndell
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