#fallacies

source Quiet down you, I know that's a raccoon. Anyways I felt inspired to make this general callout post after some recent arguments that got me thinking about how people argue. Specifically the tactics

Unfortunately, the vast majority of the gun control debate and virtually all of it you hear in the media is all about logical fallacies. And the logical fallacies are not limited to one side of the debate.

If We're Morally Upright in Our Stature, We Simply Adjust Our Views When We Discover Our Actions are Depraved; Thus It Can Be Said Our Responses To The Pointing Out of Our Fallacies Is Our Judge... Thinking

Appeal to Authority Appeal to authority is a logical fallacy which appeals to authority for the reason/premis of something being true. The fallacy is made by appealing to an incorrect source of authority,

The Straw Man The Straw Man is a logical fallacy which makes an incorrect copy of a claim or argument. The straw man version of that claim or argument, is thereafter used to debunk the actual claim or

What is a logical fallacy? A logical fallacy is an error in thought which do not agree with the three laws of thought. Fallacies when used in regular speech, is either 1) Used for bending the logic in

The Three Laws Of Thought The three laws of thought known as The Law of Identity The law of (non)-contradiction The law of no excluded middle The three laws of thought has been described by various thinkers

If you ever get into an arguement with someone illogical calling out exactly why they aren’t logical can be done using these fallacies

My contribution to the field of logic below.

Does one bad apple spoil the batch? Yes. The reason is that the over-ripening of the bad apple induces other apples to ripen faster also, same with mould spreading, so when stored together, the whole batch

So you want that somebody teaches you how to think. Really? Unfortunately, nobody can teach you how to think. This is completely up to you, it's something happening in your head, between you and yourself.

I have created a picture-based reference guide for the most common logical fallacies so users can engage in a much more productive discussion in Steemit. You can use any of these pictures in your arguments.

I recently uploaded the second video in an ongoing series on logical fallacies, this time covering the genetic fallacy, in which people make the claim that a source (rightly or wrongly) is unreliable and