It's just not absolute proof of absence." 5. The Fallacy Fallacy. It is itself a fallacy to reason that just because you proved an opponent's argument to be logically fallacious, you've shown their ...

More examples of recent logical fallacies used by President Trump and his spokespeople include: Slippery Slope – Slipper slope is a logical fallacy that concludes that something will eventually ...

A logical fallacy is, simply put, a flaw in reasoning. Often, logical fallacies are tactics that are used in order to bolster arguments that are, otherwise, pretty weak. At worst, they are ...

We’re always pleased when our readers write to us with questions or comments that really make us think. Here, for example, is reader K.S., who writes: Perhaps it was intended facetiously, if so ...

This single example is intended to serve as a general warning. This popular fallacy will proliferate, and proliferate some more, during this period of boiling hot political antagonisms.

They include the either-or fallacy, all-or-nothing fallacy, and black-and-white fallacy. A classic example is to say you’re with me or against me.

In rhetoric, this type of argument is called “moving the goalposts” and is an informal logical fallacy. The evidence provided is dismissed, and new evidence is demanded.

A professor of philosopy at San Diego State University ponders the logical fallacies he heard from Republicans like Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan.

Interesting email: Dear Mr. Goldberg, I’m a professional philosopher, and I want to clear up a philosophy mistake in your vegetarianism post today. The “naturalistic fallacy” was the ...