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The Monster Tu Quoque Stalks the Land

I don’t know of any parents that ever let that argument pass. If it was stolen cookies and “but Bart did it too!” was raised in Defense in Family Court, the answer was, invariably and universally (wit... read more

Political Discourse, the Argumentum ad Misericordiam, and the Tu Quoque Fallacy

It is not a novel insight that the most recent inauguration has been contentious, nor is it a novel insight that political discourse has been so acrimonious that it is less a true discourse and more a... read more

Dave Peyton: Yes, college professors tend to be liberals

College students. "This author's tired assertions are littered with rhetorical fallacies ... appeal to ignorance, false dichotomy, tu quoque fallacy, causal fallacy, hasty generalization ... take your ... read more

Logic lessons from the White House

During a Senate Banking Committee... Amid the legal investigations of various personnel associated with Mr. Trump’s campaign or inner circle, a frequent defense is the “two wrongs make a right” fallac... read more

Response to Dr. Jacobus Erasmus on the Soul

The standard reply of substance dualists seems to be to concede that we do not know how souls and bodies interact but to assert the tu quoque that we do not know how bodies interact with bodies. Well, ... read more

Logical Fallacies and the Art of Debate

Tu quoque ("you too"). This is the fallacy of defending an error in one's reasoning by pointing out that one's opponent has made the same error. An error is still an error, regardless of how many peop... read more

Tu quoque is not a eurozone crisis solution

Confidence-building with Wolfgang Schaeuble (via Reuters): One should differentiate here. We’ve got debt problems some individual countries, not only in the euro zone. The United States have higher de... read more

John Hood: Conservatives should not excuse claims of voter fraud

Indeed, whataboutism is formally known as tu quoque (“you also” in Latin), the appeal to hypocrisy. Hypocrites may deserve all sorts of scorn. But their inconsistency doesn’t disprove the value of the ... read more

Reader's View: 2nd Amendment allows sensible rules

Texting while driving is an issue; however, it is an issue unrelated to student protests about gun violence. That is a tu quoque fallacy; however, rather than provide a gloss on the basics of logic an... read more

Garry Wills: ‘The Religion of the Qur’an Is a Religion of Peace’

114) -- but he nonetheless concludes, after ten pages of tu quoque arguments and other legerdemain, that “the Qur’an is fraternal in its treatment of other faiths” (p. 124). Wills never mentions Qur’a... read more

Unpacking the MSM Talking Points on Perry

It's not complicated. The media's now-routine use of Straw Man, Non Sequitur, Ad Hominem and Tu Quoque have been trotted out again like old toy soldiers. Below the orange squiggle are facts and an opi... read more

Conservatives should not excuse claims of voter fraud

Indeed, whataboutism is formally known as tu quoque (“you also” in Latin), the appeal to hypocrisy. Hypocrites may deserve all sorts of scorn. But their inconsistency doesn’t disprove the value of the ... read more