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What is a logical fallacy?

What is a logical fallacy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A fallacy; a clearly defined error in reasoning used to support or refute an argument, excluding simple unintended mistakes.
  2. A formal fallacy.
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It sounds like a classic example of the post hoc, ergo propter hoc logical fallacy.
The reason this inference amounts to a logical fallacy is that it is just a blatant non sequitur.
Predictably, the appeal to personal experience is another well-known logical fallacy.
Your argument is still emotional, and still rooted purely in logical fallacy.
Some evolutionists have been known to commit a logical fallacy by conflating biological evolution and the general theory of evolution.
It seems to me to be a logical fallacy to think that by staying out of a conflict one is maintaining some kind of purity or neutrality.

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