Red Herring Fallacy, Explained
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Red Herring Fallacy, Explained
But these long comfortable words that save modern people the toil of reasoning have one particular aspect in which they are especially ruinous and confusing. This difficulty occurs when the same long word is used in different connections to mean quite different things.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
Logic deals with things fabricated by the mind within itself, which cannot exist except through the existence of reason. A concept is a natural sign, a word is a conventional sign. We must distinguish when we are speaking of the word as a thing, and when we are using it as having meaning, otherwise we may fall into fallacies such as: “Man is a spec
... See moreBertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
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
Bandwagon Fallacy: Definition and Examples
Selective-Evidence Fallacy When we cite just the evidence that supports our favored interpretation or when we dismiss evidence that seems to argue against our view, we commit the selective-evidence fallacy.
J. Scott Duvall, J. Daniel Hays • Grasping God's Word
“consensual fallacy.” This occurs when an expert, whether a computer geek, a medical doctor, or a university lecturer, assumes that everyone possesses the same level of knowledge as they do.
Dr. David Lewis • The Brain Sell: How the new mind sciences and the persuasion industry are reading our thoughts, influencing our emotions, and stimulating us to shop
distorting an opposing position into an extreme version of itself and then arguing against that extreme version. In creating a straw man argument, the arguer strips the opposing point of view of any nuance and often misrepresents it in a negative light.