The appeal to loyalty is a logical fallacy committed when the premise of an argument uses a perceived need for loyalty of some sort to distract from the issue being discussed.[1]
- Example
- B questions A's statement of x.
- Anyone who questions A is disloyal.
- Therefore, B is wrong.
Problem: Even if B is disloyal, that doesn't mean that B is wrong, as A is not necessarily always right.
See also
References
- ^ Ronald C. Pine. "Essential Logic: Basic Reasoning Skills for the 21st Century". University of Hawaii-Honolulu. Archived from the original on 2004-12-14.
Common fallacies (list)
| Formal | | In propositional logic | - Affirming a disjunct
- Affirming the consequent
- Denying the antecedent
- Argument from fallacy
- Masked man
- Mathematical fallacy
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| In quantificational logic | - Existential
- Illicit conversion
- Proof by example
- Quantifier shift
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