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Q5echo
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Excellent Logical Fallicies

quote:

Ad Hominem:
This is the best logical fallacy, and if you disagree with me, well, you suck.

Appeal To False Authority:
Your logical fallacies aren't logical fallacies at all because Einstein said so. Einstein also said that this one is better.

Appeal To Emotion:
See, my mom, she had to work three jobs on account of my dad leaving and refusing to support us, and me with my elephantitis and all, all our money went to doctor's bills so I never was able to get proper schooling. So really, if you look deep down inside yourself, you'll see that my fallacy here is the best.

Appeal to Fear:
If you don't accept Appeal to Fear as the greatest fallacy, then THE TERRORISTS WILL HAVE WON. Do you want that on your conscience, that THE TERRORISTS WILL HAVE WON because you were a pansy who didn't really think that Appeal to Fear was worth voting for, and you wanted to vote for something else? Of course not, and neither would the people you let die because THE TERRORISTS WILL HAVE WON.

Appeal To Force:
If you don't agree that Appeal to Force is the greatest logical fallacy, I will kick your ass.

Appeal To Majority:
Most people think that this fallacy is the best, so clearly it is.

Appeal To Novelty:
The Appeal to Novelty's a new fallacy, and it blows all your crappy old fallacies out the water! All the cool kids are using it: it's OBVIOUSLY the best.

Appeal To Numbers:
Millions think that this fallacy is the best, so clearly it is.

Appeal To Tradition:
We've used Appeal to Tradition for centuries: how can it possibly be wrong?

Argumentum Ad Nauseum:
Argumentum ad nauseum is the best logical fallacy.
Argumentum ad nauseum is the best logical fallacy.
Argumentum ad nauseum is the best logical fallacy.
Argumentum ad nauseum is the best logical fallacy.
Argumentum ad nauseum is the best logical fallacy.
Argumentum ad nauseum is the best logical fallacy.
Argumentum ad nauseum is the best logical fallacy.

Begging The Question:
Circular reasoning is the best fallacy and is capable of proving anything.
Since it can prove anything, it can obviously prove the above statement.
Since it can prove the first statement, it must be true.
Therefore, circular reasoning is the best fallacy and is capable of proving anything.

Burden Of Proof:
Can you prove that Burden of Proof isn't the best logical fallacy?

Complex Question:
Have you stopped beating your wife and saying Complex Question isn't the best fallacy?

False Dilemma:
I've found that either you think False Dilemma is the best fallacy, or you're a terrorist.

False Premise:
All of the other fallacies are decent, but clearly not the best as they didn't come from my incredibly large and sexy brain.

Gambler's Fallacy:
In all the previous talks about this subject, Gambler's Fallacy won, so I just know the Gambler's Fallacy is going to win this time!

Guilt By Association:
You know who else preferred those other logical fallacies?
*(insert pictures of Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot here)*

Non Sequitur:
Non Sequitur is the best fallacy because none of my meals so far today have involved asparagus.

Post Hoc/False Cause:
Since I've started presuming that correlation equals causation, violent crime has gone down 54%.

Red Herring:
They say that to prove your fallacy is the best requires extraordinary evidence, because it's an extraordinary claim. Well, I'd like to note that "Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence" is itself an extraordinary claim.

Relativism:
Well maybe all those other fallacies are the best for you, but to me, the relativist fallacy is the greatest logical fallacy ever.

Slippery Slope:
If you don't like Slippery Slope arguments, you will do poorly in class, drop out of school, commit crimes, go to prison, and die of AIDS.

Special Pleading:
I know that everyone is posting about their favorite fallacies, but Special Pleading is out-and-out the best, so it should just win with no contest.
(Via Brian McGroarty.)
>source<


feel free to use any of these. i do

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That's hilarious

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awesome!


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And here's how to use all those fallacies (and others) to win in debates:

Arthur Schopenhauer - The Art of Controversy

quote:
Controversial Dialectic is the art of disputing, and of disputing in such a way as to hold one's own, whether one is in the right or the wrong.

[...]

Our innate vanity, which is particularly sensitive in reference to our intellectual powers, will not suffer us to allow that our first position was wrong and our adversary's right. The way out of this difficulty would be simply to take the trouble always to form a correct judgment. For this a man would have to think before he spoke. But, with most men, innate vanity is accompanied by loquacity and innate dishonesty. They speak before they think; and even though they may afterwards perceive that they are wrong, and that what they assert is false, they want it to seem the contrary. The interest in truth, which may be presumed to have been their only motive when they stated the proposition alleged to be true, now gives way to the interests of vanity: and so, for the sake of vanity, what is true must seem false, and what is false must seem true.

[...]

As a rule every man will insist on maintaining whatever he has said, even though for the moment he may consider it false or doubtful.

[...]

Accordingly, in a dialectical contest we must put objective truth aside, or, rather, we must regard it as an accidental circumstance, and look only to the defence of our own position and the refutation of our opponent's.


This guy would have made a good politician.


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Registered: Jan 2003
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Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
Brian said other fallacies are better than this one, but since he called each one he uttered 'the best', he's inherently false.. this one must be the best.

Biassed Sample
i conducted a survey about this fallacy in the 'everything psy-t says is true' forum, and found out that 100% of the world agree this fallacy is the best.

Composition/Division
this fallacy is written in letters, hence all things written in letters are fallacies (err... making this the best fallacy because so many things are written in letters? )

Confusing Cause & Effect
the last time i heard someone use this fallacy, there was a crowd of crying babies around, hence crying babies cause this fallacy to be used (err. i don't know how this one is best, so nevermind )

Middle Ground
this fallacy is the best because it's neither entirely true nor entirely false.

Straw Man
Brian said we should stop using straw man fallacies (the bestest fallacy of all!), i completely disagree, i can't understand why he wants to leave rhetoricans without any more ammunition like that.

Two Wrongs Make A Right
i stole the form for this example from nizkor.org because they would've done the same to me if they were in the same position as me.


edit: oh and yeah... written by me


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cool post, I think it'd be interesting now to find quotes from politicians using each of these logical fallicies.


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