Questions tagged [fallacies]
Concerns formal (syllogistic) fallacies, informal (rhetorical) fallacies, tactical misdirection, and errors in logic or reasoning more broadly put.
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Is the Fine Tuning argument for God based on a fallacy? [duplicate]
I feel like the Fine Tuning argument for God is based on a fallacy.
The argument essentially is that God exists because the world exists in the perfect way for life to exist. If you are an outside ...
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Does this fallacy already exist?
I was in an argument on reddit where someone claimed that my usage of the word "but" meant an affirmation of the thing being denied in the statement prior.
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Is there a logical fallacy for confusing means with ends? [closed]
COUNTING SHEEP
Patient: I’m unable to sleep at night.
Doctor: Count to 2000, and you should fall asleep.
Next Day…
Patient: I’m still unable to sleep.
Doctor: Did you count to 2000 like I asked?
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definition of co-incidence and reification fallacy [closed]
the definition of Co-incidence does not mean the there is no doer for the incident to happen necessarily but means that
two incidents happens at the same time
so when someone says that the universe ...
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The pervasiveness of the moralistic fallacy in gender equality
I saw several discussions of chess results about men and women, where people claimed that the only reason women have lower ratings it's because they are under-represented, not even trying to examine ...
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Is this a case of special pleading?
Suppose someone proposes a theory about a text, saying that whenever the structure XYZ appears it signals the meaning ABC, and that all of this structure's appearances are before Book 3, because Book ...
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Logical Reasoning Puzzle: Why is circumstantial evidence (C) a better weakener than a direct contradiction (B)?
I'm working through a logical reasoning problem and want to make sure I'm using a sound method to deconstruct the argument, particularly with the tools of propositional logic.
Here is the text of the ...
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Can these be a solutions to Barber's Paradox? [duplicate]
I am reading The Anatomy of Mathematics. And I came about Barbar's paradox. It is stated as:
Barber of Seville is defined as,
He shaves all those Men, and only those Men of Seville, who do not shave ...
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Term for when absence of denial is taken as confirmation
What is the term for when someone takes absence of denial as confirmation of his theory?
for example let’s suppose that someone postulates:
In medieval Europe, People believed in spirits that guided ...
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What sort of fallacy is it when the reasoner argues from within too narrow a context of an issue?
Sometimes, people reason unacceptably when a critique or command given within a certain context is assumed to be valid only within that context. This is obviously an example of poor judgement in the ...
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Buridan's Ass and Murder by Omission
In many Jurisdictions an omission falls under criminal act (a murder can be commited by ommision) if
A person has a specific responsibility to act (prevent an outcome like death) the responsibility ...
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If guns weren't invented, would Abraham Lincoln still be alive? [closed]
A few years ago, the satire website Babylon Bee ("Fake News You Can Trust") posted a video about "Frightening but 100% True Facts About Guns." In this video, they say that since ...
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The “ending”of the universe [closed]
I’m 15 and very interested in the idea of the ending of the universe. If the idea of the big rip was true, and all the atoms were pulled apart for an infinite amount of time, can we ever say that ...
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I don't know the name of this logical fallacy (A is always B, therefore B is always A)
okay, so, i recently saw a post talking about how a person claimed that if the statement "[all] transwomen are women" is true, then "[all] women are transwomen" is equally as true. ...
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Does the fallacy of accident have contain an element that the creator of the overgeneralised premise did not anticipate the edge cases?
Title might be confusing so an example would be the statements that
"Under Singapore law, anyone caught with more than 15g of heroin in their possession must be sentenced to death. Bob was caught ...
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