Lord Bearclaw of Gryphon Woods
Favorite Answer
The fallacy that the fact that there is NO objective, empirical, testable, confirmable evidence of god is a fallacy, or that the Bible can be used to verify itself.
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Okay. I'll admit it.
Fundie Evangelical Protestant Christers are the walking talking ranting spewing logical fallacies that annoy me the most.
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Anonymous
Appeal to emotion – an argument is made due to the manipulation of emotions, rather than the use of valid reasoning.
Appeal to fear – an argument is made by increasing fear and prejudice towards the opposing side
Appeal to flattery – an argument is made due to the use of flattery to gather support.
Appeal to pity (argumentum ad misericordiam) – an argument attempts to induce pity to sway opponents.
Appeal to ridicule – an argument is made by incorrectly presenting the opponent's argument in a way that makes it appear ridiculous.
Appeal to spite – an argument is made through exploiting people's bitterness or spite towards an opposing party.
Judgmental language – insulting or pejorative language to influence the audience's judgment.
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It is a tie, argumentum ad ignorantiam and argumentum ad populum, are the ones that annoy me the most, followed closely by argument from personal incredulity.
I would like to point out how many answers demonstrate that most on this site have no understanding of the logical fallacies. They are suggesting some conclusions are fallacies, while the conclusions may be fallacious, its the arguments that they are based on that are the "logical fallacies."
🤔 Jay
GODDIDIT and GODMUSTADONEIT are my favorites.
I call those Correlation/Causation Fallacies ..
Logical fallacies are thinking quirks... With lots missing...