There are several logical fallacies detectors and finders available on the internet as an open source projects. Some of these are quite stale and some are not detectors at all. Here is the list of those available and a short description for each one with their status.
Logical Fallacy Detector App is available in the Android Play Store: Logical Fallacy Detector App
We’ve selected the top most engaging news articles on Twitter from Australian news media. The selection criteria are based on logical fallacies statistics detected in the retweets and comments to original news tweet.
“Just another day in the office. Video coming soon…”
The response contains approximately 48% of comments that look a lot like fallacious reasoning of any type our detector can recognise. Spread between reasoning type groups:
Ad Populum is a Latin word that means “Appeal to Majority” or “Appeal to Popular Belief”. Sometimes it’s also called “Bandwagon Fallacy”
The appeal to the majority is simply saying that since most people think or believe a certain way, that that way must be correct. Logically, it is a form of a red herring, in that it is irrelevant how many people believe a certain position. Truth exists outside of popular consent. Many people are susceptible to this type of fallacy because they want to fit in.
We’ve selected the top most engaging news articles on Twitter from Australian news media. The selection criteria are based on logical fallacies statistics found in the retweets and comments.
By The Age: “Every few months, we are forced to listen to an old white famous man take to a public platform to claim that ‘cancel culture’ and the ‘PC Police’ are ruining…”
We’ve selected the top most engaging news articles on Twitter from Australian news media. The selection criteria are based on logical fallacies statistics found in the retweets and comments.
From The Age: “Jayne Hrdlicka was forced to pause at times during her speech when she was drowned out by booing when she mentioned the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and the Victorian state government…”