Fallacy accusations on Twitter: an exploratory study
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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.56.2025.39252Keywords:
argumentation, empirical research, fallacies, informal logic, TwitterAbstract
This empirical study explores how ordinary arguers accuse each other of having committed a fallacy. 1450 posts in the social network Twitter were analyzed. 290 of them were fallacy accusations. Each of the accusations was analyzed according to four criteria: (1) whether the category of fallacy is identified, (2) whether the accusation is justified, (3) whether the justification makes reference to the content or the context of the argument, and (4) whether the accuser displays a willingness to discuss his or her accusation. Finally, in the second part of the study, the categories of fallacies that are most frequently mentioned in the accusations are identified. The results of this study may shed some light into the way people who know about the concept of fallacy use it, regardless of whether they learnt it.
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