Red Herring Fallacy, Explained
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Red Herring Fallacy, Explained
Every now and then, you see people arguing over whether atheism is a “religion.” As I touch on elsewhere, in Purpose and Pragmatism, arguing over the meaning of a word nearly always means that you’ve lost track of the original question.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
logic of appeals to authority.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
Of course, one didn’t use phlogiston theory to predict the outcome of a chemical transformation. You looked at the result first, then you used phlogiston theory to explain it. It’s not that phlogiston theorists predicted a flame would extinguish in a closed container; rather they lit a flame in a container, watched it go out, and then said, “The ai
... See moreEliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
Equivocation, aka “calling two different things by the same name,” is the logical fallacy of using a word or phrase in an argument either:
Here’s an example:
- In an ambiguous way
- To mean two or more things
Here’s an example:
- Salad is healthy, and taco salad is a salad. Therefore, taco salad is healthy.