Fallacy Fallacy
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Synonyms
- Appeal to Logic
- Argument from Fallacy
- Argument of the Logic
- Argumentum ad logicam
- Fallacist's Fallacy
Explanation
You commit the Fallacy Fallacy if you claim that, because your opponent used a fallacy to support his conclusion, his conclusion must therefore be false.
Of course a true statement can be defended using false logic, so using false logic to defend an opinion is not proof of the opinion being wrong.
Often this is combined with a Straw Man, that is, the opponent didn't even use the alleged fallacy.
Demarcation
You do not commit this fallacy if you:
- point out that the opponent uses nothing but fallacies and is therefore a pseudoscientist.
- You make no claim of truth or falsity of the opposing claim other than the observation that the offered arguments do not support or provide evidence for it.
