Logical Fallacies Quotes

“I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

“It's fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the atheist and the religiously corrupt boil down to the same person, the self-righteous: one denies Truth to fit his own agenda; the other manipulates Truth to fit his own agenda.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The study of Scripture I find to be quite like mastering an instrument. No one is so good that they cannot get any better; no one knows so much that they can know no more. A professional can spot an amateur or a lack of practice or experience a mile away. His technicality, his spiritual ear is razor-sharp. He is familiar with the common mistakes, the counter-arguments; and insofar as this, he can clearly distinguish the difference between honest critics of the Faith and mere fools who criticize that which they know nothing.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order to proceed as an adopted, reliable truth.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“You need an argument, and the nature of any argument is that its validity doesn't depend on who you are. [...] When talking about violence, again, the facts are whatever they are – how many people got shot, how many died, what was the color of their skin, who shot them, what was the color of their skin. Getting a handle on these facts does not require one to say, 'As a black man, I know x, y, and z .' The color of your skin simply isn't relevant information.

When talking about the data – that is, what is happening throughout a whole society – your life experience isn't relevant information. And the fact that you think it might be is a problem. [...] Now this isn't to say that a person's life experience is never relevant to a conversation [...] it can be used to establish certain kinds of facts. I mean, if someone says to you, 'Catholics don't believe in hell', it's perfectly valid to resort, 'Actually my mom is a Catholic, and she believes in hell'. Of course there's a larger question of what the Catholic doctrine actually is – but if a person is making a statement about a certain group of people and you are a member of the group, you might very well be in a position to falsify his claim on the basis of your experience.

But a person's identity and life experience often aren't relevant when talking about facts. And they're usually invoked in ways that are clearly fallacious.”
― Sam Harris

“If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.”
― Raheel Farooq

“People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist more fiercely within themselves.”
― Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing

“Applying logic to potentially illogical behaviour is to construct a house on shifting foundations. The structure will inevitably collapse.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The idea that there is something necessarily wrong with circular logic is itself a logical fallacy. If there is nothing wrong with the starting premises then the conclusions are necessarily correct too. In fact, only circular logic can be correct. Only such logic can offer total holistic coherence and analytic closure, i.e. perfect tautology – provided it is the correct circular logic, which means it must have the correct starting premise: the PSR itself.”
― Thomas Stark, Tractatus Logico-Mathematicus: How Mathematics Explains Reality

“Humans have a deep yearning to be led.
I call it the "Messiah Effect.”
― Yefon Isabelle

“Don't forget that computer programming teaches students to think," says a friend of mine who's a computer jock in Silicon valley. He's deeply invested in technology and has no kids. "Programming is a logical system that rewards clear reasoning."
Uh, sure. Nineteenth-century schoolmasters used the same reasoning to justify teaching ancient languages. According to computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum, "There is, so far as I know, no more evidence that programming is good for the mind than Latin is.”
― Clifford Stoll, High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian

“The fact that an individual had a predestined identity in society for being geofus, aviator, therma, or cryo was not only unethical, but was also illogical; what was more irksome about the passages in the web search was that the research methods were wholly supported by logical fallacies: equivocation for the analysis on cyro-organisms, the causal fallacy for the analysis on therma-organisms, the slippery slope fallacy for the analysis on aviator-organisms, and the appeal to authority for the analysis on geofus-organisms”
― Lucy Carter, Logicalard Fallacoid

“Actually,” Sapienas said, “your theories are prone to logical fallacies such as equivocation, the casual fallacy, the appeal to authority, and the slippery slope fallacy. Now you’re creating STEREOTYPES with them? It’s all just based on logical fal---”
― Lucy Carter, Logicalard Fallacoid

“She also managed to recite the phrase “Theories are not synonymous to facts,” on Mondays and Tuesdays, “Idiots accept blindly while geniuses confirm consciously” on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and, on Fridays and Saturdays, she recited her favorite phrase: “Stereotyping is a logical fallacy.” She meant every single phrase in all sincerity, which prevented her from searching for the extraterrestrials out of boredom and deprivation from social interaction.”
― Lucy Carter, Logicalard Fallacoid

“First of all, just because two variables coexist (the therma-organisms’ presence and the beginning of global warming) does not mean that they imply any correlation whatsoever. Also, using the quantity of events a variable contributed to in a past occurrence as a way to conclude that it’s probable for the same variable to contribute to a different quantity of events in a current occurrence does not always give you a valid claim. Just because it may appear that the therma-organisms would be able to contribute to a single event (murder) because they, assuming that it was true, have contributed to two events in a past occurrence simultaneously (global warming and natural disasters correlated with global warming) does not mean it would make it valid for the race of therma-organisms to be overall capable of murder because they’re biologically therma!”
― Lucy Carter, Logicalard Fallacoid

“Unfortunately, the robot did not make it to Earth, where there are several problems with logical fallacies, stereotyping, and the inability to distinguish a theory from a fact. Maybe everyone on Earth should wear cloaks, so no one would be judged based on preconceived notions about race, gender, and other possible biological or social factors that are so terribly susceptible to stereotyping. Stereotyping, to all those on Earth who may be reading this, is nothing more than a bunch of theories that replace facts, and those theories are nothing more than a bunch of stupid argumentative claims supported by logical fallacies.”
― Lucy Carter, Logicalard Fallacoid

“Without a reference point, all judgment is madness. All flawed points of reference lead but to errors. Luck wants it that an error in decadence reveals its true face and the examination of its premises is then unavoidable. - On Reference Points”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Awakening

“The purpose of logic is to make sense. If it doesn't make sense, then there is no need to apply logic in that particular situation. If you use it will be absurd.”
― Srikanth Mahankali

“In this world, by law of gravity, it seems rather the nature of things, and a reality, that 'slippery slope' is hardly a fallacy.”
― Criss Jami

“Social Media is full of narcissists who are sad fishing, practicing denialism and logical fallacies. It was supposed to be a place where people make friends, not making enemies out of friends.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos