Fallacy fallacy

What it is

Concludes that a claim is false because an argument offered for it was fallacious. A bad argument can still have a true conclusion.

Related

• Belief bias bias
  Dismissing a conclusion because of a bad argument is the reverse of accepting a bad argument because we like the conclusion.
• Bias blind spot bias
  Spotting fallacies in others' arguments feels like proof we are right, which can blind us to our own.

References

• Wikipedia: Fallacy fallacy en.wikipedia.org
• Your Logical Fallacy Is: The fallacy fallacy yourlogicalfallacyis.com
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Fallacies iep.utm.edu
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Fallacies plato.stanford.edu
• Wikipedia: List of fallacies en.wikipedia.org
• Purdue OWL: Logical fallacies owl.purdue.edu

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