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| 8776368115 | Hasty Generalization | Making assumptions about a whole group or range of cases based on a sample that is inadequate (usually because it is atypical or just too small). | 0 | |
| 8776374529 | Missing the Point | The premises of an argument do support a particular conclusion--but not the conclusion that the arguer actually draws. | 1 | |
| 8776386646 | Post hoc (false cause) | Assuming that because B comes after A, A caused B. | 2 | |
| 8776395258 | Slippery Slope | When a relatively insignificant first event is suggested to lead to a more significant event, which in turn leads to a more significant event, and so on, until some ultimate, significant event is reached, where the connection of each event is not only unwarranted but with each step it becomes more and more improbable | 3 | |
| 8776403867 | Weak Analogy | When an analogy is used to prove or disprove an argument, but the analogy is too dissimilar to be effective, that is, it is unlike the argument more than it is like the argument. | 4 | |
| 8776414327 | Appeal to Authority | Using an authority as evidence in your argument when the authority is not really an authority on the facts relevant to the argument. | 5 | |
| 8776480924 | Appeal to Pity | It takes place when an arguer tries to get people to accept a conclusion by making them feel sorry for someone. | 6 | |
| 8776488654 | Appeal to Ignorance | The arguer basically says, "Look, there's no conclusive evidence on the issue at hand. Therefore, you should accept my conclusion on this issue." | 7 | |
| 8776509062 | Straw man | Substituting a person's actual position or argument with a distorted, exaggerated, or misrepresented version of the position of the argument. | 8 | |
| 8776575058 | Red herring | Partway through an argument, the arguer goes off on a tangent, raising a side issue that distracts the audience from what's really at stake. Often, the arguer never returns to the original issue. | 9 | |
| 8777075774 | False dichotomy | In false dichotomy, the arguer sets up the situation so it looks like there are only two choices. The arguer then eliminates one of the choices, so it seems that we are left with only one option: the one the arguer wanted us to pick in the first place. | 10 | |
| 8777094254 | Begging the question | Any form of argument where the conclusion is assumed in one of the premises. It is a form of circular argument. | 11 | |
| 8777110418 | Equivocation | Using an ambiguous term in more than one sense, thus making an argument misleading. | 12 | |
| 8777131944 | Special pleading | A fallacy of logical argument in which the writer suppresses evidence that contradicts the conclusion in an inductive argument. | 13 | |
| 8777137486 | Ad-hominem | In an argument, this is an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas. It comes from the Latin meaning "turn to the man." | 14 | |
| 8777145642 | Bandwagon | A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular, it is therefore good, correct, or desirable. | 15 | |
| 8777151893 | Appeal to nature | This argument goes that because something is natural, it must be better. | 16 | |
| 8777161155 | Argument from Ignorance | An argument stating that something is true because it has never been proven false. | 17 | |
| 8777170892 | Non-Sequitur | Latin for "does not follow." An argument in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises. | 18 | |
| 8777181932 | Tu quoque | Latin for "you say": avoiding having to engage with criticism by turning it back on the accuser - answering criticism with criticism. | 19 |
