The Fallacy Fallacy Why you shouldn't go looking for faulty reasoning everywhere.

[Hume]

In my experience, fallacy theory is not just useless—it can be actively harmful. It encourages intellectual laziness, offering high-minded excuses to dismiss any argument you don’t like. It impoverishes debate by pretending that messy, real-world disagreements can be resolved with the blunt tools of formal logic. You end up like my students: slightly paranoid, dismissive, and, ironically, less critical than when they started.

The Fallacy Fallacy

Why you shouldn't go looking for faulty reasoning everywhere.

www.persuasion.community

 

[Hawkeye10]

Dont pathologicalize your partner.

 

[Yakuda]

In my experience, fallacy theory is not just useless—it can be actively harmful. It encourages intellectual laziness, offering high-minded excuses to dismiss any argument you don’t like. It impoverishes debate by pretending that messy, real-world disagreements can be resolved with the blunt tools of formal logic. You end up like my students: slightly paranoid, dismissive, and, ironically, less critical than when they started.

The Fallacy Fallacy

Why you shouldn't go looking for faulty reasoning everywhere.

www.persuasion.community

This just sounds like you don't like having the errors in your reasoning pointed out to you. You make a lot of unsubstantiated claims in that post. Maybe that's something you should consider before whining about fallacies.

 

[christiefan915]

In my experience, fallacy theory is not just useless—it can be actively harmful. It encourages intellectual laziness, offering high-minded excuses to dismiss any argument you don’t like. It impoverishes debate by pretending that messy, real-world disagreements can be resolved with the blunt tools of formal logic. You end up like my students: slightly paranoid, dismissive, and, ironically, less critical than when they started.

The Fallacy Fallacy

Why you shouldn't go looking for faulty reasoning everywhere.

www.persuasion.community

Thanks, great article.

 

[Yakuda]

Thanks, great article.

What's great about it?

 

[Jake Starkey]

One should always look for logic and accuracy.

Alternate facts are not facts; they are lies.

 

[Hume]

This just sounds like you don't like having the errors in your reasoning pointed out to you. You make a lot of unsubstantiated claims in that post. Maybe that's something you should consider before whining about fallacies.

You are very stupid.

 

[Hume]

Thanks, great article.

Welcome. I think most people really do not know the difference between a logical flaw and flaw in content.

 

[Hume]

One should always look for logic and accuracy.

Alternate facts are not facts; they are lies.

Logic is not about facts.

 

[Yakuda]

You are very stupid.

Maybe but it doesn't change anything. This is just you whining about people pointing how stupid you actually are. You're inherently unequipped to engage people in a rational discussion

 

[Jake Starkey]

Logic is about the structure of reasoning, which relies greatly on facts. yes, ignoring logical structure leads to sloppy reasoning even when facts are correct. A good argument needs accurate facts, clear definitions, inferences that are truthful, and common assumptions that are transparently true.

 

[Hume]

Maybe but it doesn't change anything. This is just you whining about people pointing how stupid you actually are. You're inherently unequipped to engage people in a rational discussion

When you state an argument without your usual juvenile insults I will respond.

 

[Hume]

Logic is about the structure of reasoning, which relies greatly on facts.

Wrong.

 

[Hume]

Logic is about the structure of reasoning, which relies greatly on facts. yes, ignoring logical structure leads to sloppy reasoning even when facts are correct. A good argument needs accurate facts, clear definitions, inferences that are truthful, and common assumptions that are transparently true.

Logic is not just a statement of facts. It is the relation.

 

[Yakuda]

When you state an argument without your usual juvenile insults I will respond.

I have and when you can't reply you resort to your usual drivel. In my estimation your OP sounds like you don't want the fallacies in your argument to be pointed out to you. That's not an insult of any type it's an observation. People make false claims all the time. There is no better example of that than this site.

 

[Hume]

I have and when you can't reply you resort to your usual drivel. In my estimation your OP sounds like you don't want the fallacies in your argument to be pointed out to you. That's not an insult of any type it's an observation. People make false claims all the time. There is no better example of that than this site.

A false claim is not a logical fallacy.

 

[Yakuda]

A false claim is not a logical fallacy.

If it's based on faulty reasoning it is or on assumptions like someone who went to college is smarter than someone who didn't.

 

[Hume]

If it's based on faulty reasoning it is or on assumptions like someone who went to college is smart.

No. Logic is about the relation between statements.

 

[Yakuda]

No. Logic is about the relation between statements.

Give an example

 

[Hume]

Give an example

It is hot outside. Therefore everyone is sweating.