Mises.org Logical Fallacies

It is often remarked that everyone on here knows all the latin and greek fallacies. So we have all these smackdown catch phrases we can throw at people. They are a little too general for my taste though, and some ideas and argumentation styles are unique to the mises community. Here is a short list I’ve been drumming up to help us stay flashy:

Bon Sequitur – Follows very well

Is-Nought problem – When empiricism is irrelevant

Argumentum ad plauseum – When repeating an argument actually makes it stronger

Post chalk ergo propter hoc – Ideas can change the world

Iron Man – When you reconstruct a stronger version of your opponent’s philosophy and destroy it anyway.

Slippery Nope – Saying “no” to mainstream ideas so often that you accidentally oppose a good libertarian policy.

Tu croquet – Doubting the sincerity of wealthy leftists

Argumentum ad Popugun – When the majority not only disagrees, but is willing to shoot you over it

This is a short list, so please add your own!

I lol’d.

Red hair-ing: Believing that something is true simply because a really hot redhead said it. Example: “Omigosh, Christina Hendricks is so hot. I would totally believe anything she says.”

Nicely done

Post hoc ergo mouth stuffed with sock: When your opponent uses force to silence you.

ignota lacessere ("to attack the unknown") - When you criticize something you don’t understand.

Argumentum cum Latin to animus (to argue with Latin to look intelligent)