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Your logical fallacy is the “fallacy fallacy”.

You presumed that because a claim has been poorly argued, or a fallacy has been made, that the claim itself must be wrong.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy



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You are correct. It's not because you use a fallacy in your discourse that you are wrong.

"The fallacy fallacy: You presumed that because a claim has been poorly argued, or a fallacy has been made, that the claim itself must be wrong."


Your logical fallacy is: argument from fallacy.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy


Well, the claim that the opponent must be wrong, because he has committed a fallacy, is the fallacy fallacy...

It's a fallacy to assume that just because a claim was argued in a fallacious manner, that it's also incorrect. (Which is close to what you said.)

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy

Pointing out a fallacy by name is usually silly, but knowing how people twist debates and being able to defend against that is not.


Merely pointing out a logical fallacy is not itself a fallacy. It can be used to discredit a bad argument.

It becomes a fallacy when you say Opinion X is wrong because its proponents used fallacious Argument Y.


Your logical fallacy is: Ad Hominem. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem

Prove you wrong? Logical fallacy

A logical fallacy does imply that an argument is wrong. It doesn't mean that the conclusion is wrong, but it means the argument is wrong. If an argument rests on a logical fallacy, then it does not provide evidence for its conclusion.

Similar to the fallacy fallacy:

The fallacy fallacy is a logical fallacy which occurs when someone assumes that if an argument contains a logical fallacy, then its conclusion must necessarily be wrong.

https://effectiviology.com/fallacy-fallacy/


Ironically, I think you may have fallen victim to a kind of fallacy fallacy fallacy, because the fallacy fallacy concerns the interpretation of an argument assuming a valid fallacy in it does exist. At least according to Wikipedia's definition of fallacy fallacy.

Rather, in this case the parent post merely misidentified a fallacy.


You are comitting a falacy falacy. Just because an argument is fallacious, doesn't mean it is wrong.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fallacy_fallacy


Arguing that an argument is bad simply due to logical fallacy is also a logical fallacy.

The "fallacy fallacy" is valid for itself, though:

> since the fallacy fallacy is itself a fallacy, it cannot be used to label an argument's conclusion as false without committing it in the process. "You have used the fallacy fallacy, therefore you are wrong"

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fallacy_fallacy


He's wrong about X because he says Y is a logical fallacy

Please stop trying to win a debate. You haven't actually addressed what I or anyone else wrote. If you want people to discuss with you, understand they expect you to do the same.

A logical fallacy is an error in reasoning that is based on poor or faulty logic.



A logical fallacy doesn't mean the claim is wrong, just that it doesn't logically follow. I think it's still worth pointing out when the claim is presented as fact.

I didn't say anything about you or what you claim. Resorting to the logical fallacy fallacy is pretty poor in general, but quite ridiculous when you aren't even using the terms correctly.

>Your argument invokes a logical fallacy //

Which of course doesn't mean that he's wrong.

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