Logical Fallacies, Explained.

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  @_jared · 2 years ago · pinned

  If you&apos;ve watched my channel for any amount of time, you might know I made a similar video last year. I made a few mistakes in that video – including say Richard Nixon walked on the moon – and I knew I wanted to make a longer video about this topic. So here it is. <br><br>Now, tell me: what&apos;s your favorite fallacy?

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• SA

  @SarahDoesSass · 2 years ago

  Too many people learn logical fallacies so they can point them out as a weapon in debate. The value is to eradicate them in your own arguments &nbsp;and be able to meet fallacious arguments in others with superior ideas and logic.

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• ER

  @ericschultz3891 · 2 years ago

  your point on the appeal to flattery was so excellent. you are so intelligent and also handsome!

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  @theboombody · 1 year ago

  One big logical fallacy is the fallacy that you need to get into arguments online and you need to win them.

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• MR

  @mr_mr · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc">00:00</a> intro to the informal fallacies<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=30">00:30</a> Ad Hominem<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=54">00:54</a> Appeal to Authority<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=146">2:26</a> Appeal to Emotions<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=158">2:38</a> Appeal to Fear<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=165">2:45</a> Appeal to Flattery, Hatred, Love, guilt, pitty...<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=189">3:09</a> Appeal to Popularity<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=234">3:54</a> Appeal to Heterodoxy<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=259">4:19</a> Why this is important / validity <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=312">5:12</a> Sponsor<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=372">6:12</a> Appeal to Tradition<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=395">6:35</a> Appeal to Novelty<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=412">6:52</a> Appeal to Progress<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=432">7:12</a> Appeal to Hypocrisy<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=458">7:38</a> Morality Fallacy / Doomsayer Fallacy<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=470">7:50</a> Middle Ground Fallacy or Appeal to Moderation<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=502">8:22</a> Appeal to Ignorance<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=526">8:46</a> Genetic Fallacy<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=546">9:06</a> Guilt by Association<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=553">9:13</a> Gambler&apos;s Fallacy<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=584">9:44</a> Hasty Generalization<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=605">10:05</a> Hot Hands Fallacy<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=618">10:18</a> the formal fallacies<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=659">10:59</a> Affirming the Consequent<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=666">11:06</a> &nbsp;Denying the Antecedent <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=680">11:20</a> &nbsp;Begging the Question<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=689">11:29</a> Equivocation <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=726">12:06</a> Straw man argument<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=751">12:31</a> No True Scotsman Fallacy<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=786">13:06</a> Motte and Bailey<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=835">13:55</a> Slippery Slope<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=870">14:30</a> Correlation vs. Causation<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=886">14:46</a> Fallacy of Composition<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=908">15:08</a> Fallacy of Division<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBbcU7ofZc&amp;t=917">15:17</a> Comparitive Fallacy

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• QW

  @qwazsx1775 · 1 year ago

  I’m glad you touched on the commonly held misrepresentation of the slippery slope fallacy. Often in arguments when someone argues that A will lead to Z, they are called out on a “slippery slope” fallacy, but if they validly explain all the other steps that will lead from A to Z, such as B and Y, then the fallacy ceases to be, as the argument has become one of “nip it in the bud before it gets bad”. If the debater fails to produce those B-Y in their argument, and simply says that A will lead to Z, THEN it’s a slippery slope; but mind you, just because they failed to produce the B-Y evidence does not mean they are incorrect about A-Z, they just failed to identify B-Y and as such committed a fallacy. It’s also important in that case, not to commit a fallacy-fallacy, in which a listener assumes that because the debater employed a fallacy, then their entire position is entirely invalid.

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  @j0fiz986 · 2 years ago

  What I find baffling is that if a bad person says 1+1=2, people dislike that person so damn much that they will actually rewire their own fundamental logic so they can believe it is false because they don’t want to agree with anything the bad person believes. <br>Some people want to win arguments so use logical fallacies, so be it….but to rewire your brain just to be right I think is beyond crazy.

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• PR

  @precarioushuman8228 · 1 year ago

  “Defunding the police” and “taking a portion of the funds away from the police and putting it somewhere else” are the same argument just worded differently. The populace just assumes defunding the police means taking all of the funding away when in reality it just means negatively impacting the funding for the police by a certain amount

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• HA

  @hasanaliakhmedov6826 · 2 years ago

  Hi Jared! You got me into philosophy! You and Park Notes.

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• AB

  @abdur-rahmanhucks1660 · 1 year ago

  I started learning what a logical fallacy is so I could communicate better and arguments and debate. I used to be someone that was always suckerd into the strawman and felt myself defending a point I didn’t make

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• MU

  @munch9778 · 1 year ago

  I don&apos;t want to be a debate bro, I just want to stop sounding like an idiot 😅

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• RE

  @rehnumatabassum1577 · 2 years ago

  Can you mention some books about:<br>(1).Philosophy of Mind<br>(2).Theory of Knowledge <br>(3).Applied philosophy

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