Logical Fallacies

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Deric Hollings

Oct 5, 20244 min read

Mistaking Deductive Validity for Truth

[ DISCLAIMER ] Quite often, when using psychoeducation in my blog to help people understand Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT),...

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Deric Hollings

Jun 20, 20244 min read

Magical Thinking

[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use Suppose person X believes that washing one’s hands in a river will afford the individual to become...

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Deric Hollings

Jun 11, 20244 min read

Failure to Elucidate

[DISCLAIMER] When practicing Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), I invite clients to consider that the words we use matter. This is...

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Deric Hollings

May 19, 20243 min read

Argument from Silence

[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit (edited), fair use Imagine the following scenario: Woman: Any man who isn’t outspokenly in support feminism is...

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Deric Hollings

May 13, 20243 min read

Relativist Fallacy

[DISCLAIMER] Man: On average, human males are stronger than human females. Woman: That may be true for most females, though not for me....

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Deric Hollings

May 9, 20246 min read

Avoiding the Issue

[DISCLAIMER] According to one source, from February 2021 to October 2023, the United States (U.S.) Department of Homeland Security data...

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Deric Hollings

May 9, 20244 min read

Accident Fallacy

[DISCLAIMER] According to one source: The fallacy of accident (also called destroying the exception or a dicto simpliciter ad dictum...

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Deric Hollings

May 9, 20243 min read

Appeal to Motive

[DISCLAIMER] I recall a historical discussion with a group of work colleagues during which I questioned whether or not focusing resources...

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Deric Hollings

Mar 21, 20245 min read

Putting Toothpaste Back into the Tube

[DISCLAIMER] Sometimes, I speak in generalities—statements or principles having general rather than specific validity. For instance, I...

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Deric Hollings

Mar 3, 20247 min read

Naturalistic and Moralistic Fallacies

[DISCLAIMER] Throughout my blog, I discuss Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume’s concept of the is-ought problem, which...

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Deric Hollings

Feb 6, 20243 min read

Appeal to Pity

[DISCLAIMER] As matters escalate at Texas’ southern border, I’ve heard many examples of appeals to pity. Regarding this fallacy, one...

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Deric Hollings

Feb 6, 20243 min read

Complex Question Fallacy

[DISCLAIMER] I practice Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), which I understand has been “criticized for being too harsh and...

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Deric Hollings

Jan 31, 20242 min read

Argument by Exception

[DISCLAIMER] Have you ever disagreed with someone who used an argument by exception—the argument that a principle is contradicted (not...

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Deric Hollings

Oct 24, 20233 min read

Equivocation

[DISCLAIMER] Suppose I stated, “Sure philosophy helps you argue better, but do we really need to encourage people to argue? There’s...

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Deric Hollings

Oct 22, 20234 min read

Unfalsifiability

[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use Take a moment to look at the above-indicated picture of Italian painter Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth...

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Deric Hollings

Oct 21, 20235 min read

False Dilemma

[DISCLAIMER] On September 20, 2001, following the terror attacks of 9/11, George W. Bush addressed to a joint session of Congress and the...

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Deric Hollings

Oct 21, 20237 min read

Appeal to Authority

[DISCLAIMER] Celestial authority As a child, I learned of Mount Olympus, which according to one source relates to, “Ancient Greek...

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Deric Hollings

Oct 17, 20235 min read

Appeal to Hypocrisy

[DISCLAIMER] Recently, I posted an entry entitled Ad Hominem that related to argumentum ad hominem (also known as a personal attack,...

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Deric Hollings

Oct 16, 20234 min read

Straw Man

[DISCLAIMER] Imagine the following fictional conversation between two people: Person 1: Given how quickly things escalated when Hamas...

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Deric Hollings

Oct 16, 20233 min read

Non Sequitur

[DISCLAIMER] One of the logical fallacies I used to frequently violate was that of the non sequitur fallacy. Per one source, “A non...

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