Top 10 Logical Fallacies And How People Misuse Them

Logical fallacies are something we all learned about in high school at least a little bit, and we have all heard teenagers throw them around (often wrongly) in internet arguments in a vain attempt to “win” something — they of course haven’t yet learned the crucial lesson that no one ever wins an argument on the internet. While many of us are familiar with some of the same famous fallacies, there are other lesser known ones that it’s important to not fall prey too, and many more well known ones that are often wrongly applied, or just not properly understood. In today’s article, we will go over 10 examples of this phenomenon…

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10. Correlation Does Not Equal Causation, But It Can Be A Connection
9. Red Herring’s Are Not Always Intentional, And Are More Than Just Rhetoric
8. The Slippery Slope Fallacy Can be Misidentified, As It Concerns Minor Consequences
7. Yelling out “Ad Hominem” Is Not A Get Out Of Jail Free Card From Fair Criticism
6. To Avoid Strife, Keep In Mind People May Not Realize They Are Using A Strawman Fallacy
5. The Sunk Cost Fallacy Can Be Misidentified And Cause You To Lose Time And Work
4. The “If-By-Whiskey” Fallacy Is An Important One That Politicians Like Obama Use Often
3. “Moving The Goalposts” Can Be A Fallacy, But It Can Easily Be Misapplied Overzealously
2. The Psychologist’s Fallacy Is Something A Lot Of Us Could Stand To Look Inwardly On
1. The False Equivalence Fallacy Is Incredibly Dangerous, And Causes Us A World Of Trouble

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