How to respond to false premises

When you respond to the use of false premises, you should generally call them out as false, explain why they're false, and how them being false invalidates the argument.

• False premises can be implicit rather than explicit.
• It can also be helpful to ask the person who relied on the false premise to support it.
• However, remember that a false premise that makes an argument logically unsound doesn't mean its conclusion is wrong.