Here's another example of the logical fallacy (and bad parenting) on display, provided by Texas State University's philosophy department: Daughter: "I'm so hurt that Todd broke up with me ...

An example of this fallacy, according to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a peer-reviewed academic database, is, "I've met two people in Nicaragua so far, and they were both nice to me.

Most philosophers today don’t buy that it is a fallacy to derive moral conclusions from factual premises. As Michael Ridge writes in this article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of philosophy ...

Each fallacy leads to a bad philosophy of reality: Idealism, empiricism, Pythagoreanism, or social constructionism. Mental Fallacy (Idealism) Premise: Mental operations are used in acquiring ...

In simple terms, a logical fallacy is a flaw in reasoning that ... use the phrase more or less matches how it’s used in logic ...

In my philosophy course, for example, we did an assignment where we had to pick out fallacies in news articles and reflect on their purpose and effectiveness. Fallacies are not inherently false or ...

Director of the Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences and Senior ... well-intentioned who fall victim to these often appealing fallacies. The only antidote is a large dose of scepticism, mixed ...

First fallacy: That if you increase wages ... and each time a new administration enters, the entire philosophy of governance and public administration is overhauled. Wages are the least of ...

Also known as the “is-ought” fallacy, this refers to a logical fallacy wherein people falsely derive moral values regarding what is right or wrong based on certain objective natural facts.