Equivocation Fallacy Explained, With Examples

Literally translating as 'you too' this fallacy is also known as the appeal to hypocrisy. It is commonly employed as an effective red herring because it takes the heat off someone having to defend their argument, and instead shifts the focus back on to the person making the criticism.

Example: Nicole identified that Hannah had committed a logical fa... See more

An interesting cause of spurious content is what we informally refer to as "reference collisions": contexts where a single word may reference multiple concepts (like an eggplant emoji), and an unintended concept is generated. The line between benign collisions (those without malicious intent, such as "A person eating an eggplant") and those involvi... See more

The bandwagon fallacy, also known as the appeal to the masses or appeal to common belief fallacy, is the logical fallacy of claiming that something is true because everyone believes it. Whether that belief is actually true or not doesn’t matter—if an arguer claims that a position is true because it’s popular, the arguer is using the bandwagon falla... See more