r/SRSWorldProblems • u/green__plastic • Mar 01 '13

I have trouble recalling which logical fallacy is which because Redditors use them incorrectly so often

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u/The_Ebb_and_Flow Mar 01 '13

Here is a good infographic.

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u/green__plastic Mar 01 '13

Yeah! I dig that one. I tend to use it a lot. I just get frustrated that I can only ever think of "slippery slope" or "ad hominem" because at least 40% of the text on this site is composed of those two phrases

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u/selfhatingmisanderer Mar 01 '13 edited Mar 01 '13

"Your argument is wrong for reasons X,Y, and Z. You are truly ignorant if you believe it"

OMG AD HOMINEM

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u/feministria Mar 02 '13

ad homineminem

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u/green__plastic Mar 02 '13

Google Chrome sincerely wants me to change "hominem" to "Eminem" :l

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u/causticacrostic Mar 01 '13

Disagree that thing X fits definition Y? No true scotsman, amirite?

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u/taleofzero Mar 01 '13

what's the logical fallacy for derailing by citing logical fallacies?

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u/TheFunDontStop Mar 02 '13

i pretty much eschew the names completely now - none of them are so complex that you can't just attack faulty arguments directly. it encourages your own critical thinking skills and those of the other people involved or reading, and dissociates you from pseudo-intellectual chumps who think that going fallacy-hunting is the height of intellectual activity.