Insidious Halachic Fallacies – An Interactive Field Guide

This includes all the named Latin fallacies from Rabbi Avi Grossman’s series (Reductio ad Voluntas, Incrementum ad Institutum, Muntz’s Fallacy, Scriptum Ergo Regula, Disimilis Ergo Malus, Et Non Viderunt Ergo Indicium, Reductio ad Opinionibus at Dissiderent, Lagur Mip’nei Ish, the Plurality-Precedent Fallacy, and the Abstention-Equals-Prohibition fallacy), plus the Yarmulke Fallacy and the R’ Zelig Epstein / Taleb non-maleficence point from Hyehudi.

You can filter by category (Authority, Precedent, Change, Evidence), search by keyword, and click any card to open a full panel with the definition, an example, and a countermeasure.

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