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Logical Fallacy Referee

Logical Fallacy Referee

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Updated Jun 04, 2016 at 06:13PM EDT by Dreamworks.

Added Jul 22, 2015 at 06:17PM EDT by Wisehowl.

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About

Logical Fallacy Ref is an image macro series featuring photographs of sports referees with captions calling out the use of logically invalid arguments used in online debate.

Origin

On July 11th, 2015, a gallery was uploaded to Imgur[1] containing 32 image macros of sports referees calling out various logical fallacies, which credited film critic Glen Welch as the creator of the series. Within two weeks, the gallery received more than 230,000 views.

Logical Fallacy Ref

Precursor: Your Logical Fallacy Is

On September 24th, 2011, the website YourLogicalFallacyIs.com[6] was launched, which features explanations of many formal and informal fallacies often used in discussions on the Internet.


the fallacy fallacy appeal to strawman false cause TO SOCRATES AR personal incredulity sli tu quoque loaded burden of proof ambiguity mbler'swbandwagon 画 appeal to authority Dcomposition囮scotsman |genetic no true fallacy /division @blackor white圈 theD appeal to nature Oanecdotal 回shares soter@ middle begging the question thetexas thou shalt not commit logical fallacies

Spread

On July 12th, 2015, Redditor rtphokie submitted the Imgur gallery to the /r/AdviceAnimals[3] subreddit, where it gathered upwards of 4,600 votes (88% upvoted) and 480 comments in the first two weeks. The following day, a Logical Fallacy Referee image about the "strawman" fallacy was reposted on 9gag.[4] On July 15th, the political news site Dangerous Minds[8] published an interview with Welch about the creation of the series. On July 16th, the "Fallacy Ref" Facebook[7] page was launched, which highlights notable examples of the meme.

Various Examples


ILLEGAL USE OFA STRAW MANARGUMENT ATTEMPTED DEFLECTION OFAN OPPONENTSARGUMENT TOA POINT THEY WEREN TDEFENDING, PLAY IS NO GOOD THEREWASANAPPEAL TOTRADITIONLAST PLAY JUST BECAUSE THATS THEWAY WEALWAYS DID IT DOESNT MEAN IT'S THE RIGHT WAY TO DO IT LEATHERHEAD imgilip.com
WE HAVE ANATTEMPED ARGUMENT FROM SILENCE PLAYER BASED THEIR CONCLUSION ON ALACK OF EVIDENCE APPEAL TO AUTHORITY ON THE OFFENSE FALSELYASSUMEDA PROCLAIMED EXPERT INA FIELDISINFALLIBLE imgtip.com WE HAVE AN AD HOMINEM ATTACK PERSONAL FOULAITACKED THE OPPONENT INSTEAD OFHIS ARGUMENT imgflip.com

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External References

[1] Imgur – Logical Fallacy Ref

[2] Ed Hochuli – Wikipedia

[3] Reddit – Logical fallacy ref on r/AdviceAnimals

[4] 9gag – Logical Fallacy ref

[5] Wikipedia – list of fallacies

[6] YourLogicalFallacyIs.com – thou shalt not commit logical fallacies

[7] Facebook – Fallacy Ref

[8] Dangerous Minds – ARGUING WITH IDIOTS ONLINE WEARING YOU DOWN?

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