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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Doing this one for fun/bored.

Person 1: So, what, you figured you'd just let 'em get away with 9/11? Person 2: Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11! And the war we started in lraq has killed a half a million of their people, which is like 200 9/11's. Person 3: So, I guess those mo...

asked on Friday, Oct 13, 2023 10:35:38 PM by Ethan
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Combination of weak arguments

Hello, Let's say someone has an argument A. I can easily prove that A doesn't apply to everything. They then say another argument, B. I can also dismantle it. Then they say another weak argument C. All of these 3 arguments cannot survive debunking...

asked on Thursday, Oct 12, 2023 07:48:12 AM by Bobby
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What fallacy

“I don't support what the government in Israel has done to the Palestinians, but support for Hamas and what they did is disgusting.” What is the fallacy, if any?

asked on Wednesday, Oct 11, 2023 10:36:48 PM by Ethan
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What Fallacies

“YES! We need to kill this idea that hierarchy is somehow inherently outdated and ‘bad’ (and the cousin of this argument, that networks are modern and ‘good’.) There can by tyranny not just in structurelessness, but in ...

asked on Wednesday, Oct 11, 2023 08:50:30 PM by Ethan
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History

What kind of fallacy is it whereby someone, in order to support the claims one is making, with very little evidence outside of just stories pulled from supposed memory, a quote by someone famous who knew the person, claiming that said person doesn't...

asked on Tuesday, Oct 10, 2023 08:07:57 PM by Ethan
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Facts

What do we think of the saying, “facts don’t care about your feelings?”

asked on Sunday, Oct 08, 2023 12:25:15 AM by Ethan
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History

How do you even begin to argue with someone who makes an argument that we should erase all history that demonstrates proof of a time where there was no equality, or  rewrite history, writing out the existence of certain people?  

asked on Sunday, Oct 08, 2023 12:22:29 AM by Ethan
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Conservative

Are there any fallacies conservatives use? If so how best could they adjust their style of argument to avoid such fallacies? 

asked on Saturday, Oct 07, 2023 09:44:01 PM by Ethan
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Abortion

Are there any fallacies used by pro choice advocates for abortion? 

asked on Saturday, Oct 07, 2023 09:26:42 PM by Ethan
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Christianity

Are there any arguments that don’t rely on some fallacious reasoning as to why Christianity could be considered the “correct” religion as opposed to others in the world? 

asked on Saturday, Oct 07, 2023 09:17:58 PM by Ethan
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