Logical fallacies

[Jaymes]

Since citing logical fallacies is such a common thing in the debate section and not everyone seems to know what logical fallacy is what when it's referenced, I decide to nose around and found a HUGE list of logical fallacies on Wikipedia. It's quite extensive and provides examples and explains (most of) them in ways that are easy to understand.

I hope I'm not opening Pandora's box by linking you guys to this...

 

[Darkdale]

Since citing logical fallacies is such a common thing in the debate section and not everyone seems to know what logical fallacy is what when it's referenced, I decide to nose around and found a HUGE list of logical fallacies on Wikipedia. It's quite extensive and provides examples and explains (most of) them in ways that are easy to understand.

I hope I'm not opening Pandora's box by linking you guys to this...

Holy crap. I've studied a great deal of logic an there are few there I've never heard of. Thanks for the link! Quite enlightening.

 

[michel]

Have some more; I still cant get my head around them all;

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/index.html#index

http://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/ignorance.html

Thanks for the third link Jensa.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Good work, Jennsa & Michel. Thanks.

 

[Yerda]

Can a more enlightened soul tell me if there is a more common name for the fallacy called the quantifier reversal?

Here is the context within which I encountered it:

Modern philosophers have added to and refined the arguments of Hume and Kant. They point out that the second way, or First Cause Argument, contains an elementary logical fallacy: a quantifier reversal. An example is easy to give: suppose that every player in the basketball team has a wife; one then commits the fallacy of quantifier reversal when the fact is extended to state that the basketball team itself has a wife! This is how the first cause argument reasons: because every causal series must have a first cause, the argument claims that there must be a first cause for all such series. Stated this way, the fallacy in the argument is clear.

http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/aquinas.html

Maybe a unique case of Non causa pro causa?

 

[jonny]

Not again...all these bad memories of my logics classes are flooding back! Please don't make me start mapping out proofs. If I have to remember what constructive dilemma and modus tollens are again I think I'll cry!

 

[Darkdale]

Not again...all these bad memories of my logics classes are flooding back! Please don't make me start mapping out proofs. If I have to remember what constructive dilemma and modus tollens are again I think I'll cry!

I loved logic classes. Made me feel like I was good at math. Logic and Geometry are wonderful... I hate calculus and algebra and trig - *yuck*

 

[nutshell]

Logical Fallacies!!! They work well when deconstructing an argument, but bring things to a halt when you're trying to have a fun debate.

 

[jonny]

I loved logic classes. Made me feel like I was good at math. Logic and Geometry are wonderful... I hate calculus and algebra and trig - *yuck*

The six hours I spent on a test trying to solve a couple proofs was enough to make me run and never look back. I actually liked Calculus (does that make me weird?).

 

[Bennettresearch]

Thanx Jensa.

I find Wickipedia to be awesome on many subjects. A very in depth work. As to logical fallacies I just experienced that wading through the thread on the girl that got herself tasered in school by the cops.