Dec 21
The fallacy of many questions is a logical fallacy committed “when someone asks a question that presupposes something that has not been proven or accepted by all the people involved”.
A common way out of this argument is to not respond with a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer, but with a full statement that also includes context. To use an earlier example, a good response to the question “Do you still beat your wife?” would be either “I have never beaten my wife” or “I do not have a wife.” This removes the ambiguity of the expected response, therefore nullifying the tactic. However, the askers of said questions have learned to get around this tactic by accusing the one who answers with “dodging” the question. The best tactic when faced with this kind of opponent is to ignore the question entirely or to point out that the question is, indeed, a loaded question.