A quick guide to logical fallacies. Fallacies include ad hominem, appeals to authority, the fallacy fallacy, circular arguments, etc.

The following is an alphabetical list of the logical fallacies we study in this course. Each fallacy is followed by a description of the proper method for identifying the fallacy (ID) when it occurs ...

In simple terms, a logical fallacy is a flaw in reasoning that weakens your argument; you’ve drawn a conclusion based on ...

This fallacy and the next one involve mistakes in conditional "if-then" statements. "If A, then B" in a logical context just means that whenever A is true, B is also true. Similarly, "All A's are ...

When considering your argument or the arguments of others, writers and readers need to be aware of logical fallacies. Logical fallacies are found in many places—ads, politics, movies. Logical ...

While the questions themselves involve made-up arguments and the answer choices vary in wording, the flaws in the reasoning are often common logical fallacies studied since antiquity. For example ...

Take the Social Security Administration, for example. Trump and his cost-cutting czar Elon Musk quickly labeled their ...

People often ask me how they can avoid misinformation. I wish there was an easy answer, but effectively avoiding ...

Without a time machine, there is no way to know if this is true, but further, the line of thinking falls into a logical fallacy, that of the "just world." Just World Fallacy A just world fallacy ...