1. Jump into conclusion without being backed by premises or no premises at all
2. Connecting two irrelevant shits and deceiving yourself/themselves for being relevant
List of logical leap:
1. Questionable Cause (non causa pro causa/cocoklogi)
2. Black and white/either-or/false dilemma
3. Hasty generalizations
4. Argument from ignorance (we don't know X, therefore X is wrong)
5. Being overdramatic (slippery slope and/or strawman)
6. Red Herring
2. Connecting two irrelevant shits and deceiving yourself/themselves for being relevant
List of logical leap:
1. Questionable Cause (non causa pro causa/cocoklogi)
2. Black and white/either-or/false dilemma
3. Hasty generalizations
4. Argument from ignorance (we don't know X, therefore X is wrong)
5. Being overdramatic (slippery slope and/or strawman)
6. Red Herring
by Sir. B November 20, 2021
Get the logical leap mug.A form of fallacy fallacy where one falsely accuses an opponent of making a logical leap—jumping from premises to conclusion without sufficient justification—when the opponent’s reasoning is actually sound or only mildly inferential. The accuser demands an impossible standard of perfection: every step must be explicitly spelled out, every assumption exhaustively defended, and any gap, no matter how small, is treated as a fatal flaw. This tactic is used to dismiss arguments without engaging them, weaponizing the concept of “logic” to avoid substantive discussion. Logical leap imputation is common in bad‑faith debates where the goal is not understanding but scoring rhetorical points.
Example: “He demanded she prove that correlation implied causation, then when she outlined a plausible mechanism, he declared it a ‘logical leap’—Logical Leap Imputation, treating reasonable inference as a fatal gap.”
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