Forum: The Art of Debate - Logical Fallacies

a term paper against abortion and attacking my own position(this is so sick to me) and stating that abortion is unconstitutional! I am in the 12th...

I received this e-mail today. I think this was one of the people spamming and trolling on our on our site a couple days ago. What a sicko. See how...

Some time ago, I labelled one of yodavater's arguments as a "fallacy of loaded words". His response was to ask if I had just made up that fallacy. ...

I see it too often, "You are prolife but you are in favor of a war that is killing poeple, so you are not really prolife." First of all, the name...

I hate it when people say this. Because it's meaningless. "What if everyone did that" doesn't belong in any argument, ever. What if everyone...

You can’t use a subjective evaluation (aka an opinion) in order to coerce others into doing something. Doing so is a logical fallacy. This seems...

I'd like to clarify something regarding Godwin's Law because I've seen posters in this and other forums garble and misrepresent it. Godwin's Law...

I'd like to take a look at non-arguments which masquerade as points. These are most often used by people who are losing. My all time favourite:...

Hey, people! Don't forget to celebrate Universal Children's Day at June 1! See wikipedia for info =) 185105 children was born in Europe and USA!...

http://www.kahome.co.uk/logic.htm 1. Rationality It may be precisely because rationality is such a fundamental concept, in different areas, that...

One of the worst recent debate techniques I've seen, is making up definitions for something ( and of course the definition is horrible ), then asking...

I've been asked by admin to start a thread in regarding doing research for topics of debate and speeches. Last spring, I was enrolled in a speech...

I keep hearing this terms but I'm not entirely sure what they are and what certain phrases mean you invoke these laws.. can someone clue me in? :oops:

Simplified Version The asserter bears the initial burden of factually supporting any prima facie conclusion of obviousness. If the asserter does...

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like ‡ - Or in normal language - Like is not the same as (or is not equal to) One of the more common debate fallacies is the use of a false...

Here is an excellent site that gives the most commonly used logical fallacies, their description and examples so you can see how they are used and...

Debate- the act of cross examining, and rebutting to an extent that a winner can be declared. Yes, debates have "winners". Oddly enough, in this...

Please read the description of this forum. I personally am looking forward to learning about general debate principle and practice! Thanks to mods...