Logical Fallacies

Logical fallacies are errors in reasoning.  The Excelsior OWL site has several of the main fallacies outlined.  If you become familiar with them, you can identify logical fallacies in others’ arguments.  You can also avoid using logical fallacies in your own writing. . . or, if you’re very clever, use them to your advantage to convince of something.  Beware!  If a good reader catches the writer committing a fallacy, they will likely read with an edge, becoming an adversary of the writer.  It’s just logical that they would do so.

Wouldn’t Mr. Spock would agree?