Top 10 Logical Fallacies And How People Misuse Them

Logical fallacies are something we all learned about in high school at least a little bit, and we have all heard teenagers throw them around (often wrongly) in internet arguments in a vain attempt to “win” something — they of course haven’t yet learned the crucial lesson that no one ever wins an argument on the internet. While many of us are familiar with some of the same famous fallacies, there are other lesser known ones that it’s important to not fall prey too, and many more well known ones that are often wrongly applied, or just not properly understood. In today’s article, we will go over 10 examples of this phenomenon… →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet?sub_confirmation=1 Find more lists at: http://www.toptenz.net Entertaining and educational top 10 lists from TopTenzNet! Subscribe to our Facebook: http://bit.ly/1QRrRgJ Business inquiries to admin@toptenz.net Other TopTenz Videos: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Ancient Greeks https://youtu.be/rj54HQPlBYk 10 Things that Might be Going on in North Korea https://youtu.be/LhCWk9VVDK0 Text version: http://bit.ly/2U2I9sp Coming up: 10. Correlation Does Not Equal Causation, But It Can Be A Connection 9. Red Herring’s Are Not Always Intentional, And Are More Than Just Rhetoric 8. The Slippery Slope Fallacy Can be Misidentified, As It Concerns Minor Consequences 7. Yelling out “Ad Hominem” Is Not A Get Out Of Jail Free Card From Fair Criticism 6. To Avoid Strife, Keep In Mind People May Not Realize They Are Using A Strawman Fallacy 5. The Sunk Cost Fallacy Can Be Misidentified And Cause You To Lose Time And Work 4. The “If-By-Whiskey” Fallacy Is An Important One That Politicians Like Obama Use Often 3. “Moving The Goalposts” Can Be A Fallacy, But It Can Easily Be Misapplied Overzealously 2. The Psychologist’s Fallacy Is Something A Lot Of Us Could Stand To Look Inwardly On 1. The False Equivalence Fallacy Is Incredibly Dangerous, And Causes Us A World Of Trouble Source/Further reading: https://youtu.be/HUti6vGctQM https://youtu.be/Af0STrY58i4 https://youtu.be/t2ePCnSyQ4w https://youtu.be/IVFK8sVdJNg https://youtu.be/cGZkCPo7tC0 https://youtu.be/vpnxd31y0Fo http://bit.ly/2JcEuab https://youtu.be/KeswYJgf5mM http://bit.ly/2JrFXsB https://youtu.be/fgSkC5priuA http://bit.ly/2JaEEiA http://bit.ly/2JqGxa5 http://bit.ly/2JcEvuL http://bit.ly/2JuAJw7 http://bit.ly/2J9JzAa http://bit.ly/2Jt191s http://bit.ly/2JcN9tt http://bit.ly/2JpcyPI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4HhpMXdKM4 http://bit.ly/2JcnqRU http://bit.ly/1ZQkHxa http://bit.ly/2JcEwyP http://bit.ly/2JuAGR5 http://bit.ly/2JcEyqr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A8TiUpKDVg http://bit.ly/2JuAIsb http://bit.ly/2JcEAi3 http://bit.ly/2l5hy0l http://bit.ly/2J980On http://bit.ly/2tkyocm http://bit.ly/2J9JyfA http://bit.ly/2JuAJMD http://bit.ly/2JbgILM