Logarithmic Fallacy

A fallacy in which one interprets growing data as to always be growing.

"Dude, my baby is twice as big in just 3 months, what the hell am I going to do with a 7.5 trillion pound 10 year old?"

"Uhh, logarithmic fallacy, but also like, are you okay man?"

by onedefinitionderrick March 20, 2025

The Fallacy Limit

When someone does so many things wrong and backwards that it reaches a critical mass such that it's a mathematical impossibility to point out a single instant of it in time, and it tries to drag everything into its singularity. Also known as "quantum stupidity".

She reached the fallacy limit for the day . . . and for all time.

by Ubermensch-One March 28, 2025

Maxwell Fallacy

An over reliance on ai and using ai erroneously. Using leading prompts into large language models that generate a desired response and using that response as proof. The worst kind of fallacy there is. Also posting screen shots of this fallacy is double bad.

“That’s a classic Maxwell Fallacy thinking you are right after you finally got ChatPT to agree with you after asking it enough questions! None of us humans are falling for your straw man arguments though.”

by Limousine Liberal April 4, 2025

Maxwell Fallacy

An over reliance on AI and using AI erroneously. Using leading prompts into large language models that generate a desired response and using that response as proof. The worst kind of fallacy there is. Also posting screen shots of this fallacy is double bad

“This is a classic Maxwell Fallacy thinking that you are right just because you asked enough leading questions to get ChatGPT to agree with you! But none of us humans agree with you and we see right past your straw man arguments.”

by Limousine Liberal April 4, 2025

Informational Fallacy

The fallacious belief that only that which can be quantified, digitally encoded, or formally computed is "real" or constitutes valid knowledge. It dismisses qualitative experiences, subjective consciousness, moral intuitions, and analog phenomena as "illusions" or "epiphenomena" because they cannot be fully captured in a discrete, measurable data stream. It's a form of extreme reductionism that mistakes the map (the informational model) for the territory (lived reality).

Example: "Love is just a biochemical algorithm for gene propagation. If you can't model it in a neural network or measure it in serotonin levels, it's not a real phenomenon, just a story we tell." This statement commits the Informational Fallacy by asserting that the computable aspect is the only reality, reducing a rich human experience to mere data processing.

by Dumuabzu February 3, 2026

TINA Fallacy

The rhetorical and ideological maneuver of declaring that the current system, policy, or state of affairs—however flawed, oppressive, or unstable—is the only possible one, thereby shutting down all debate, imagination, and political will for change. Coined from Margaret Thatcher's famous dictum "There Is No Alternative" to neoliberal capitalism, this fallacy conflates the currently dominant model with the only conceivable model. It's a form of ideological coercion that frames critique as naive, reform as impossible, and collapse as preferable to transformation. It mistakes political inertia for natural law, serving those in power by making their rule seem inevitable.

TINA Fallacy Example: A politician facing calls for a nationalized healthcare system responds, "Private insurance is the only system that works. TINA. Any other idea is a fantasy that would destroy quality and innovation." This fallacy dismisses the proven models of dozens of other nations as irrelevant, presenting the status quo not as a choice but as a force of nature, paralyzing public discourse.

by Dumuabzu February 3, 2026

Meta-Fallacies

Errors in reasoning that occur not within an argument itself, but in the process of identifying, analyzing, or dismissing other fallacies. They are mistakes made one level up, in the "meta" layer of argumentation. The classic example is the Fallacy Fallacy (dismissing a claim as false solely because it was argued for with a fallacy). Meta-fallacies are the pitfalls of being a fallacy detective—getting so focused on catching logical errors that you commit new ones by misapplying labels, being overly pedantic, or using fallacy calls to avoid engaging with the substance of an argument.

Meta-Fallacies Example: Person A makes a valid point about economic inequality but uses a slightly emotional analogy. Person B triumphantly declares, "Aha! Appeal to emotion! Your entire point is invalid!" Person B has committed the Fallacy Fallacy, a primary Meta-Fallacy. They incorrectly believe identifying a flaw in the argument's delivery automatically negates its factual content.

by Dumu The Void February 4, 2026