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| 6646233463 | appeal to prejudice | using loaded or emotive terms to attach value or moral goodness to believing the proposition. | 0 | |
| 6646233464 | appeal to authority | referring to an authority that may not actually be an expert in that particular field | 1 | |
| 6646235443 | appeal to pity | The attempt to distract from the truth of the conclusion by the use of pity | 2 | |
| 6646235444 | appeal to false causes | assumes that a particular event has a specific cause though there is more than one possible cause that hasn't been addressed | 3 | |
| 6646236794 | appeal to false analogies | writers use similar situations to explain a relationship | 4 | |
| 6646236795 | nonsequitur | doesn't follow a logical sequence | 5 | |
| 6646238889 | hasty/sweeping/overgeneralization | bases an argument on insufficient evidence | 6 | |
| 6646238890 | stereotyping | The general beliefs that we use to categorize people, objects, and events while assuming those beliefs are accurate generalizations of the whole group | 7 | |
| 6646240611 | begging the question | a writer presents an arguable point as a fact | 8 | |
| 6646240612 | hypostatization | changes a word or term in an argument to have an invalid meaning | 9 | |
| 6646240613 | false authority | using an authority from another field as an expert in a different area | 10 | |
| 6646242386 | red herring | changes the argument to something simpler and easier to argue | 11 | |
| 6646242388 | straw man | only refuting the weakest point of an argument thus diverting from the real issue | 12 | |
| 6646243498 | either or reasoning | reduces complex issues into black and white choices | 13 | |
| 6646243499 | double standard | use different standards to evaluate a situation requiring one solid expectation | 14 | |
| 6646245221 | oversimiplification | reducing an argument to a state where the complexities are not addressed | 15 | |
| 6646245222 | equivocation | makes a faulty argument by using a word's multiple meanings by changing the meaning of the word in the middle of an argument | 16 | |
| 6646245223 | slippery slope | suggests that one step will inevitably lead to more, eventually negative steps | 17 | |
| 6646247300 | ad homeninum | attacking the opponent rather than the issue | 18 |
