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| 6514669941 | fallacy | guile or trickery or a false or mistaken idea. Have the appearance of truth but are erroneous | 0 | |
| 6514671826 | ad hominem | an argument that criticizes an idea by pointing something out about the person who holds the idea rather than directly addressing the actual merit of the idea | 1 | |
| 6514688231 | argument from authority | tempts us to agree with the writer's assumption based on the authority of a famous person or entity or on his or her own character | 2 | |
| 6514691409 | appeal to ignorance | assumption that whatever has not been proven false must be true (or whatever has not been proven true must be false) i.e. No one can prove that the Loch Ness mponster does not exist; therefore the Loch Ness monster exists/ | 3 | |
| 6514698060 | begging the question | someone assumes the parts (or all) of what the person claims to be proving are proven facts | 4 | |
| 6514703460 | hasty generalization | a writer that deliberately leads you to a conclusion by providing insufficient, selective evidence | 5 | |
| 6514706495 | non sequitur | a statement that does not logically relate to what comes before it | 6 | |
| 6514708307 | false dichotomy | a consideration of only two extremes when there are one or more intermediate possibilities | 7 | |
| 6514709871 | slippery slope | suggest dire consequences from relatively minor causes (If we stop requiring men to wear coats and ties in the dining room, pretty soon they'll start coming in dressed in beachwear) | 8 | |
| 6514712699 | faulty causality | setting up of a cause and effect relationship when none exists. One event can happen after another without first necessarily being the direct cause of the second (Violent crime among adolescents has risen in the past decade, and that is the result of increased sales of violent video games) | 9 | |
| 6514719412 | straw man argument | oversimplification of an opponent's argument to make it easier to attack (students who want to eliminate the school uniform are exhibitionists who want to show off bare midriffs) | 10 | |
| 6514742949 | sentimental appeals | a tactic that attempts to appeal to the hearts of readers instead of the mind | 11 | |
| 6514745909 | red herring | attempts to shift attention away from an important issue by introducing an issue that has no logical connection to the discussion at hand | 12 | |
| 6514750473 | scare tactics | used to frighten readers or listeners into agreeing with the speaker | 13 | |
| 6514752113 | bandwagon appeals | encourages the listener to agree with a position because everyone else does | 14 | |
| 6514764138 | dogmatism | does not allow for discussion because speaker presumes that his or her beliefs are beyond question | 15 | |
| 6514766228 | equivocation | telling part of the truth while deliberately hiding the entire truth | 16 | |
| 6514769137 | faulty analogy | illogical, misleading comparison between two things | 17 |
