Comments on: Logical fallacies poster

By: Rindan

Rindan — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:26:00 +0000

Paragraphs were enough to make me read it. I hate you. Well played.

By: Cary Allen

Cary Allen — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:19:00 +0000

From “Bandwagon”: “Shamus pointed a drunken finger at Sean and asked him to explain how so many people could believe in leprechauns if they’re only a silly old superstition. Sean, however, had had a few too many Guinness himself and fell off his chair.”

Your logical fallacy is racism.

By: Diogenes

Diogenes — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:06:00 +0000

Don’t have to. You can open/display PDFs in Firefox, then zoom all you want.

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:55:00 +0000

Thanks…

My own first reaction to just about everything is cynical, critical, and bitter as the worst bastards on 4chan. But why on earth would I burden everyone else with crap like that?

Optimism is hard work, but worth it. “Fake it ’til you make it” I guess.

By: YourMessageHere

YourMessageHere — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:12:00 +0000

In my experience, this stuff is the most reliable way to utterly destroy any serious discussion; the thoughtful posters instantly divert into discussion not of the actual topic but of the correctness of the invocation of whichever of these is mentioned, and the only ones staying on topic are the idiots and trolls.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:00:00 +0000

That’s because it’s not produced by FOX, Viacom, etc…

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:59:00 +0000

this whole ‘good’ ‘not good’ thing is your subjective projection. FYI.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:57:00 +0000

It’s not a fallacy, most of us are. Teens are just impolite enough to tell the truth.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:56:00 +0000

I believe it’s an appeal to the authority of the dead guys on the top.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:54:00 +0000

Yeah, you need a wall sized version of this.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:54:00 +0000

Dolphins. Blame Dolphins. They hate ice cream too.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:51:00 +0000

Only if it proves incorrect.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:48:00 +0000

Argument Ad Bacon – Bacon settles everything.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:47:00 +0000

Annnnd. You win.

By: EH

EH — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:36:00 +0000

Yep, I checked the spelling so as to avoid the poop jokes. My success is your success.

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:45:00 +0000

You, sir, are quite the optimist. I admire your spirit.

By: Ian G

Ian G — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:54:00 +0000

Properly titled. “Shut up, That’s Why…”

By: joeyjoejoe

joeyjoejoe — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:45:00 +0000

Nitpick: no one says “black-and-white” fallacy, it’s called a “false dichotomy.”

By: EvilTerran

EvilTerran — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:02:00 +0000

http://reason.com/assets/mc/psuderman/2011_04/scannershead.gif

By: Jesse Richardson

Jesse Richardson — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:46:00 +0000

The rest of the website works as single pages, each devoted to its own fallacy. Click the icons at the bottom of the page, or the title bar to take you to the home page.

By: Jesse Richardson

Jesse Richardson — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:44:00 +0000

Back up now and on its own server

By: professor

professor — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:13:00 +0000

Your post isn’t strictly logical. Boing Boing often runs stories of an emotional nature, and since emotions aren’t logical, any comment based on such stories would also not be logical and therefore “not good” (according to your reasoning). However, in the case of emotional stories, it is usually the emotional comments that are considered “good” and the logical comments that are considered “not good”.
For example, if a story ran about a young hero that risked life and limb to save an unknown toddler from certain death, the emotional comments (“Yay! What a hero!” or similar) would be considered “good” and the logical comments (“He should have 1st performed a risk-assessment and profitability-study before taking action”) would be considered “not good.”
Thus without applying the necessary caveats limiting it only to logic-based articles, your proposal is not a logical solution.

By: unklstuart

unklstuart — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 06:35:00 +0000

Nice to see this in poster form. Here is a link to Steven Novella’s list on The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe web site. No easier to read being white text on black background.
http://www.theskepticsguide.org/resources/logicalfallacies.aspx

By: Jonathan Badger

Jonathan Badger — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 06:03:00 +0000

My point is in such cases it isn’t clear if the boss actually thinks that the point has been refuted, only that it wasn’t acceptable to *their* boss and that they aren’t willing to get chewed out on your account. The two aren’t necessarily the same.

By: Henry Pootel

Henry Pootel — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:38:00 +0000

On a more serious note…

I caught a live taping of the US public radio show “Philosophy Talk” http://philosophytalk.org/ the other day. What a great show that is. I’m struck by the wonderfully intelligent and cordial nature of the discussions. The hosts don’t always agree on everything (perhaps somewhat for good radio), and they do so in a friendly, engaging way that makes you walk away feeling smarter, not polarized.

By: Henry Pootel

Henry Pootel — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:33:00 +0000

That is logical Rindan, plus your appeal to my humanity by implying a brotherly relationship is honest and without rancor, which prompts me to respond in a helpful manner by adding paragraphs.

By: Andrew Kane

Andrew Kane — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:19:00 +0000

The link seems to be broken: the bit.ly link goes to http://www.yourlogicalfallacyis.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi, which says “This account has been suspended.”

By: Rindan

Rindan — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:03:00 +0000

Also, paragraphs dude… paragraphs. I am generally up for a good read, but help a brother out a little.

By: Ian G

Ian G — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:59:00 +0000

Gahhhhh! Account suspended. Any mirrors?

By: Rindan

Rindan — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:59:00 +0000

It depends. If your boss tells you to shut up or else, and you do, if your boss walks away thinking that he has proven you wrong, he has made a fallacy. The reason why it isn’t in the pantheon of fallacies is because you need to understand something of how people are perceiving the “shut up or else” argument. If he walks away thinking that he has just shut you up, then it isn’t a fallacy.
I know it sounds dumb, but I have met more than one upper management type who has so gotten so used to using “shut up or else” that I truly believe that they think they have proven someone wrong when they engage that kind of argument.

A:”I think that this is a bad course of action.”
B:”We are going to do it, and if you don’t like it, you can write a memo to C explaining why you refuse to do it.”
A:”Fine, we can do it your way”.
B:”Good, now that we are all in agreement…”