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| An illegitimate appeal to authority. "If P says it, then Q it must be. P says it, therefore Q." |
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| An illegitimate appeal to the masses. |
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| An illegitimate appeal to threat or danger as an incentive for action. |
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| An illegitimate attack on the person instead of his argument. |
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| Assuming an argument to be wrong and then attack the person for why they believe it. |
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| Saying "Well, you do it too!" when the person has just pointed out that you're doing something wrong. |
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| An argument from silence, a lack of information. |
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| Chronological Snobbery: (FoD) |
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| Rejecting an opinion simply because of how old or new it is. |
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| Fallacy of Equivocation: (FoA) |
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| When one of the terms in the argument has more than one meaning. |
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| Changing the meaning of a sentence simply by "italicizing" different words in the sentence. |
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| Fallacy of Selective Arrangement: (FoA) |
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| Stating something that is technically true, but in such a way as to imply that the opposite is normally true. |
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| Fallacy of Amphiboly: (FoA) |
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| When the sentence, taken as a whole, is ambiguous. |
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| Fallacy of Composition: (FoA) |
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| Assuming that whatever is true of the parts must be true of the whole. |
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| Fallacy of Division: (FoA) |
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| Assuming that whatever is true of the whole must be true of the parts. |
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| Assuming what needs to be proven. Also called circular reasoning or begging the question. |
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| Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc: (FoF) |
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| Assuming that because A happened after B, A was because of B. |
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| Presenting a false dilemma. Also called Bifurcation. |
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| Framing the question in such a way as to exclude a legitimate response. |
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| Engaging in high speed (or eccentric) induction. Also called hasty generalization. |
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