Logical Fallacy News

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  Just published  List of Formal Logical Fallacies with Examples , very well defined, hope you'll like it. Describes difference between Formal and Informal Fallacies, Affirming the consequent, Denying the antecedent, Affirming a disjunct, Denying a conjunct (false dichotomy) and Fallacy of the undistributed middle and example of  politician’s fallacy.

Want to look smarter? Appeal to authority  is the easy way , but don't overuse it, and only when it's not a fallacy. That way you wouldn't considered overdependent on other people's opinion.

In this post we are showing three kinds of personal attacks together with - Ad Hominem circumstantial/Guilt by association - Ad Personam - Tu Quoque Argumentum Ad Hominem Definition and examples are provided.

  Appeal to Emotion is a Logical Fallacy very well known since ancient Roman times. It has many varieties including Child Excuse,  Horses Laugh, Appeal to Patriotism and others. Here we list all them and give some examples. Enjoy! https://www.logical-fallacy.com/articles/appeal-to-emotions /

This is a very common type of fallacy. It's used when person excludes some options from your availability list. For example, at the shop sales person might ask you "Will you be paying by cash or card?" but you haven't decided yet and have a third option - not to buy at all. "You are with us or you are against us" is a another example of it. Would you like to read more about it or see more examples? https://www.logical-fallacy.com/articles/false-dilemma / Or see the  Full List of Logical Fallacies

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