Logical fallacy

A Logical fallacy is a seemingly logical or rational argument which violates the rules of logic. Logical Fallacy is a technique often used in rhetorical discourse to persuade others without sound reasoning, i.e. Rhetorical Deception.

Related Articles

• The Logical Fallacies category has a list of logical fallacies
• Logical fallacies are often used for rhetorical deception

Links

Reference

• Wikipedia has an article containing a long list of common logical fallacies, most with articles of their own, as well as a category.
• Logical Fallacies .info: an encyclopedia of errors of reasoning
• Fallacies list at The Nizkor Project
• A List Of Fallacious Arguments

Opinion

• 2007-04-27 The Fallacy Fallacy warns against the idea that an argument is invalid just because it follows the form of a logical fallacy. The article does not, however, give any examples of valid arguments presented in a fallacious form. That said, it would seem true that most logical fallacies have valid arguments at their core, but that they have been somehow misapplied to a new context; it is worth cataloging these errors, as they are both frequent and hard to spot (possibly because they play on flaws in our lower-level reasoning systems).