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seriallurker  ·  3685 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Five Logical Fallacies by Idea Channel

These are great. Here's a pretty good website with some more. It's always good to be wary of these while constructing your argument.

I find a lot of people (in my hs debate club, mind you) misuse logical fallacies while examining their opponent by simply stating that their opponent's argument contains fallacy x and then moving on like the point's been made for them. Need's more 'splainin.

I don't use them intentionally myself, but according to my rhetoric professor, op-ed writers sometimes use them to get their audience even more on their side. I've never seen an example of this though. The only other people I can imagine using them are trolls, and I'm sure they do it all the time.