TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can you outsmart the fallacy that fooled a generation of doctors? | Elizabeth Cox
It's 1843, and a debate is raging about one of the most common killers of women: childbed fever— no one knows what causes it. One physician has observed patients with inflammation go on to develop childbed fever, and therefore believes...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can you outsmart this logical fallacy? | Alex Gendler
Meet Lucy. She was a math major in college, and aced all her courses in probability and statistics. Which do you think is more likely: that Lucy is a portrait artist, or that Lucy is a portrait artist who also plays poker? How do we know...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can you outsmart the fallacy that divided a nation? | Elizabeth Cox
It's 1819. The US is preparing to make Missouri and Maine new states. One representative insists that slavery shouldn't be allowed in any new state. Another believes it should be a state's right to choose. A compromise is proposed:...
Curated Video
Identifying Fallacies
A video titled "Identifying Fallacies" that explains how to identify logical fallacies in writing.
Curated Video
Spotting Logical Fallacies: A Guide to Critical Thinking
This video explains logical fallacies, which are errors in reasoning that make arguments invalid. It gives examples of common fallacies such as false cause, straw man, begging the question, and false dilemma. By learning to spot these...
Professor Dave Explains
Logical Fallacies Part 2: Most Commonly Used Fallacies
We just learned about formal and informal fallacies. Now it's time to go through a list of the most common types of fallacies, so that we can be familiar with as many of them as possible. These would be things like the No True Scotsman...
Professor Dave Explains
Logical Fallacies Part 1: Formal and Informal Fallacies
In learning about logic, we've come to understand how an argument involves two or more premises followed by a conclusion. When the conclusion does not follow from the premises, this is an invalid argument. In such a case, a logical...
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Logical Fallacies Explained
Hear the Top 7 Logical Fallacies Explained with examples. Be sure not to use these or you'll hurt your own credibility. Be on the lookout for them when other people use these fallacies.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Ad Hominem
In this video, Paul Henne describes the ad hominem fallacy, which is an informal fallacy that arises when someone attacks the person making the argument rather than their argument. He also describes the four subtypes of this fallacy. [8:10]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Denying the Antecedent
In this video, Matthew C. Harris explains the fallacy of denying the antecedent, the formal fallacy that arises from inferring the inverse of a conditional statement. He also explains why graduate students might also be humans. [3:35]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Introduction to Ad Hominem
In this video, Julianne Chung offers a brief introduction to ad hominem fallacies or fallacies of personal attack. She surveys six different types (abusive ad hominem, circumstantial ad hominem, tu quoque, guilt by association, genetic...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Begging the Question
In this video, Matthew C. Harris of Duke University explains the informal logical fallacy called begging the question and the associated concept of circular reasoning. [3:53]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Appeal to the People
In this video, Jordan MacKenzie discusses a type of informal fallacy known as the argumentum ad populum fallacy, or the appeal to the people fallacy. This fallacy occurs when one attempts to establish the truth of a conclusion by...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Affirming the Consequent
In this video, Matthew C. Harris explains the fallacy of affirming the consequent, the formal fallacy that arises from inferring the converse of an argument. [3:25]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Straw Man Fallacy
In this Wireless Philosophy video, Joseph Wu (University of Cambridge) introduces you to the straw man fallacy. This fallacy is committed whenever someone misrepresents an opponent's claim in arguing against it. [5:58]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Slippery Slope
In this Wireless Philosophy video, Joseph Wu (University of Cambridge) introduces you to the slippery slope argument. This argument is that when one event occurs, other related events will follow, and this slippery slope will eventually...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Red Herring
In this Wireless Philosophy video, Joseph Wu (University of Cambridge) introduces you to the red herring, a rhetorical device, and the fallacy that is often difficult to spot. A red herring occurs when something is introduced to an...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
In this video, Paul explains the post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc fallacy. This is an informal fallacy committed when a person reasons that because one event happened after another event, the first event caused the second. [5:41]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Equivocation
Joseph Wu (University of Cambridge) explains the fallacy of equivocation, the fallacy that occurs when the same term is used with different meanings in an argument. [6:29]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Fallacy of Division
In this video, Paul Henne describes the fallacy of division, the informal fallacy that arises when we assume that the parts of some whole must have the same properties as the whole they make up. [4:51]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Fallacy of Composition
In this video, Paul Henne describes the fallacy of composition, an informal fallacy that arises when we assume that some whole has the same properties as its parts. [3:58]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Formal and Informal Fallacies
In this video, Paul describes the distinction between formal and informal fallacies.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Logical Fallacies: Lesson 2
This text and audio tutorial discusses 10 common logical fallacies. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Logical Fallacies."