Comment by perching_aix

> is a fallacy because it can be true or false independent of whether everybody says it is or not

Except of course when there is a dependence between the trueness of the statement and how many people are saying it. For example, if I bring up that a certain taxonomization exists and is established, it is pretty crucial for it to be popularly held, otherwise it would cease to both exist and be established.

> Whether a particular thing fits into a particular category can be reasoned about, and a particular miscategorization being common doesn't make it correct.

But you reject the category of informal fallacies being fallacies overall, despite them being definitionally fallacies, no?