Logical Fallacy of Loaded Language

The logical fallacy of loaded language occurs when presuppositions or emotional connotations are attached to language.

Examples of the Logical Fallacy of Loaded Language

Bill Nye arguing against Creation science: "I mean, it’s very reasonable perhaps to you that Noah had super powers and was able to build this extraordinary craft with seven family members, but to me it’s just not reasonable."

By using emotional language, Bill Nye is implying impossibility, however the question of possibility has been answered repeatedly and successfully in the past. The key words that carry the emotion are: "extraordinary" and "super powers".

Bill Nye arguing against Creation science: " There are Christians who don’t accept that the Earth could somehow be this extraordinarily young age, because of all the evidence around them."

Here, the emotion and presupposition is carried in the word, "extraordinarily", which implies unreal in the tone that it was spoken. In addition, there is a reference to evidence but no rational evidence for billions of years was given during the debate.