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the idea that when you're drunk, you've already committed to being drunk so you may as well get that extra drink. see "sunk cost fallacy."
"Can't Kyle just drink in moderation and not black out every weekend?"
"It's the drunk cost fallacy. Once he gets drunk he doesn't see a reason to stop."
A word some intellectually inferior person aka Nathan Thompson, uses in an "argument" to refute claims of ships disappearing "bottom up" on the horizon.
"Ships disappearing bottom up is a bottom up fallacy, ships only do that because my ass is so cavernous that it actually swallows the ships not the horizon, it is my anus not the curve" -Nathan Thompson
Fallacious belief that something must be good because you shelled out a lot of money for it. From the joke about two nouveau-riche types who are standing next to each other at a party wearing identical ties. One says, "I got this tie for five hundred Euro". The other says, "That's nothing. I got mine for at least two thousand Euro." Not to be confused with the principal that if you buy cheap, you get cheap ... for a yuppie's necktie is never cheap.
Don't spend a hundred grand on a car. Only those who can't see through the yuppie's necktie fallacy do that.
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The granite counter fallacy argues that the monetary value of an object is directly proportional to the amount of money that is spent on it. The fallacy lies in the essence that previous monies spent are subject to highly subjective rationale which may not add any practical value to the object. The fallacy is typically deployed with an appeal to novelty (newer is better) fallacy in order to manipulate the audience using current “trends” or “fads” in popular culture where the subject is likely to accept the argument based upon what they believe is “popular” and implies a “higher demand (value)”.
The Granite Counter Fallacy is as follows:
Example 1:
Person A purchases a house and spends x amount of dollars replacing the tile kitchen countertops with granite countertops.
Person A states that the value of the house has now increased because x dollars were spent replacing the tile counters with granite counters.
Person B states that they do not really mind tile countertops and to them, a countertop is a countertop - whether it is made of granite or tile does not change its practical use and therefore adds no real value.
Example 2:
Person A purchases a small house with large backyard for x dollars.
Person A demolishes the house and builds a much larger house with no backyard for y dollars.
Person A claims that the value of the new house is x + y because x dollars were spent on the previous house and y dollars were spent on the new house.
Person B says they prefer a house with a backyard and the lower electrical bills for cooling and heating, thus, the larger house’s added rooms add no real value from their point of view.
The fallacy is in Person A’s assumption that people will assume that a house is worth more than another house because it is larger while failing to understand the practical value that people may see in a smaller home. Such an argument can only work in an environment where the majority of people participate in a trend that unquestionably accepts the notion that a bigger house is better than a smaller house.
Example 3:
Person A purchases a white table for x dollars and a can of black paint for y dollars.
Person A uses all of the black paint to paint the entire table black.
Person A claims that the value of the table has increased to A + B.
The fallacy is in Person A’s failure to acknowledge that the table’s practical value remains unchanged. The reason for any increase in value is based upon the belief that black tables are more popular than white tables which is subject to change as fads come and go.
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The logical error that assumes a perfect solution to a problem exists, and rejects proposed solutions on the grounds that they are imperfect solutions
Decriminalizing marijuana is a bad idea because there will still be the same problems associated with it
Perfect solution fallacy is rejecting a proposed solution on the grounds that it won't completely eradicate marijuana abuse
A "Narcissistic Logical Fallacy" is a fallacy commonly used by narcissists to gaslight their victims.
"Omg, like I dumped my boyfriend because he tried to tell me 'there's never been any evidence to suggest that evidence you're suggesting' -to the evidence of how he was cheating! That's a Narcissistic Logical Fallacy! He's such a narcissist."
The mistaken belief that "if you build it, they will come". Responsible for the failure of many Internet startups.
The client didn't understand why no one was visiting his site and I just didn't have the heart to tell him that he had fallen for the Field of Dreams fallacy.
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