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This is just a short message with quick update. We have just updated the app in the Android Play Store: Logical Fallacy Detector App with the bug fixes. Thank you all who sent us emails with bugreports, they really helped. This screenshot of PlayStore page is really old. This app has many more downloads… Feedback Your opinion is very important to us and helps us to improve this Logical Fallacy Detector.

We have published the app in the Android Play Store: Logical Fallacy Detector App This screenshot was taken when the app was just published, so download count is just 1. Detecting Logical Fallacies The main screen of the app allows to type in any text max 500 letters long. Then after the button Detect is pressed the app sends the text for the analysis to the cloud, receives the detection result with the list of found logical fallacies and shows them under the text.

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How We Choose We haveve selected the top most engaging news articles on Twitter from Australian MSM and prominent journalists. The selection criteria are based on logical fallacies statistics found in the retweets and comments. Critical Concentration “Prince Harry should dump his salacious tell-all and rein in Meghan Markle if he wants to honour King Charles, writes Piers Morgan.” The response to this tweet from Sky News Australia contains approximately 62% of comments that look a lot like fallacious reasoning of any type our detector can recognise.

Appeal to Ignorance comes from argumentum ad ignorantiam, which is a Latin word that literally translates as “Argument from ignorance.” This is the logical fallacy that a statement or belief is false simply because it has not been proven true or, conversely, true because it has not been proven false. This is a variation of “innocent until proven guilty” that resonates so well in America because it is what American criminal justice system is based upon.