“Elementary, Mr Watson” – Sherlock Holmes committed a number of logical fallacies in his books, there is even one named after him: Read about the "“Sherlock-Holmes Fallacy”: fallacies.online/wiki/knowled... #logic #literature #philosophy #fallacy

Inflation or crime rates, hair colours or IQs - the Ecological Fallacy makes us draw false conclusions from statistical data. More under: fallacies.online/wiki/knowled... #logic #statistics #criticalThinking #fallacies #philosophy

Whether it’s the political spectrum or the understanding of scientific rigour – there is often a continuum between categories, which makes it difficult to draw a clear distinction. How to recognise such situations? See here: fallacies.online/wiki/knowled... #Fallacies #Philosophy

An important problem in #epistemology can be derived from the seemingly innocuous statement "All ravens are black". This is known as the #RavenParadox or also as #HempelsParadox. fallacies.online/wiki/glossar... #logic #philosophy #paradox #fallacy

The rhetorical #switcheroo confidence trick: Defending one term by arguing for another – e.g. #homeopathy and #naturopathy. But this only works if the audience doesn’t recognise the difference either. Learn more: fallacies.online/wiki/ambigui... #rhetoric #philosophy #fallacies #confidenceTrick

When HR once again refers to “resources” rather than “colleagues” or “team members” – it’s a short step from abstraction to the objectification of people. fallacies.online/wiki/abstrac... #Fallacies #Philosophy #Abstraction #HR #HumanResources #Incel #Statistics

“Society is to blame …”, “science says …”, “the market thinks …” Treating abstract concepts as if they were concrete things can be fallacious. But it doesn’t have to be: fallacies.online/wiki/abstrac... #fallacy #criticalthinking #philosophy #reification

Was Flipper the dolphin really “happy”? Are AI softwares really “intelligent”? Various aspects of the phenomenon of #anthropomorphisation – it is not just about animals and computers: fallacies.online/wiki/abstrac... #science #philosophy #fallacies #abstraction #anthropomorphism

“If you’re not for us, you’re against us.” And what if I don't care for either side? There are almost always more options than the obvious ones, and one shouldn’t allow oneself to be forced into a “false dilemma” #framing. fallacies.online/wiki/relevan... #rhetorics #logic #dilemma #philosophy

There is hardly any other field where the mindset that "if it can’t be measured, it doesn’t exist" has caused more harm than in medicine. That doesn’t mean, however, that it isn’t just as much of a fallacy elsewhere: fallacies.online/wiki/knowled... #fallacy #medicine #psychology #knowledge

Hello @danirabaiotti.bsky.social , I run this account here to share information on, and hints how to avoid fallacies. It is an offspin from my website fallacies.online. While it is at the crossroads between many topics, do you think that would be a fit for the "Science Feed"?

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Everybody knows that "this is not a pipe", because it is (of course) the picture of a pipe. But also error messages are not errors, and mathematical models are not reality. More on this topic:

In Umberto Eco’s "Name of the Rose", the novice Adso enthusiastically exclaims that something is a "perfect Darii". If you didn't know what a "Darii" is, here you can learn about it: #Logic

Things still exist even if you don't know about them, or if you can't measure them. What seems obvious still leads to consequential errors, also (but not only) in business or in medicine:

“Let’s just assume that 🦄 unicorns exist …“ – the problem with Existential Import and how it can lead to logical problems: fallacies.online/wiki/glossar...

No, "Mother Nature" does not "care for its children", nor is the Universe "ignorant of us" – but most of all, neither is a computer "intelligent", at least not in a human sense. All of these are examples of anthropomorphisations, and in this article, we have a look at this phenomenon:

There are various ways of looking at the tendency to simply believe everything that fits into one’s own world view. From an epistemological perspective, this can be described as "coherentism". But as is so often the case: it is more complicated than one might think! fallacies.online/wiki/knowled...