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| 10749144115 | Argument against a person | Moves from a condemnation of a person's opinions to a condemnation of a person's character | 0 | |
| 10749149378 | Argument by force | Explicit or implicit threat of violence | 1 | |
| 10749163779 | Argument to shame | Appeals to reader's sense of personal modesty or collective shame | 2 | |
| 10749165940 | Argument to the wallet | Persuade audience to act or dissuade them from acting based on the amount of money that action would cost | 3 | |
| 10749178516 | Argument by authority | Instead of exploring the merits of the issue, the speaker glorifies the non-specific reputation of an authority | 4 | |
| 10749195223 | Argument by definition | Use as proof unexplained, unsupported definitions which are a type of generalization | 5 | |
| 10749199358 | Argument by popularity | Mistakes majority opinion for informed opinion | 6 | |
| 10749207074 | Hypothetical argument | Likens the situation under discussion to an imagined scenario in which the details are similar, but the outcome is different | 7 | |
| 10749213519 | Implied argument | Rests on principles that are never explicitly stated and whose validity thus can not be examined | 8 | |
| 10749220686 | Proof by absence | Assumes that the lack of evidence is itself a kind of proof | 9 | |
| 10749228260 | If... then | Artificially limits the possible consequences of an action to one result | 10 | |
| 10749232715 | Non sequitur | Refers to a missing link in a chain of reasoning | 11 | |
| 10749244316 | Post hoc Fallacy | Error in consequence. Assumes an event happening after the fact occurs because of it | 12 | |
| 10749253742 | Slippery Slope | Assumes that a given act or decision will trigger a series of inevitable and progressively more serious consequences | 13 | |
| 10749258664 | Begging the Question | Asserting in advance what has yet to be proven | 14 | |
| 10749265429 | Circular Reasoning | Repeats the effect in different words and passes it off as the cause | 15 | |
| 10749269322 | Irrelevancy | Often true statements that happen to have nothing to do with the issue at hand | 16 | |
| 10749273333 | Red Herring | Exercise in misdirection and an effective way of ignoring the real question | 17 | |
| 10749282137 | Equivocation | Repeating the same word or phrase using different meanings | 18 | |
| 10749286755 | Loaded Terminology | Prejudges issues, events, or individuals by tagging them with an adjective that arouses strong emotion | 19 | |
| 10749298856 | Attributing Intent | Rephrase a statement in terms of what you think the writer or speaker means to say rather than what she says | 20 | |
| 10749317769 | Decontextualizing | The meaning of an idea always depends upon what is said before or after, taken out of context an expression may be incomplete | 21 | |
| 10749326829 | Either... or | Artificially limits one's choices to two. Traps one into binary thinking | 22 | |
| 10749330586 | False Analogy | Assumes wrongly that because two people, things, or events are alike in some ways, they must be alike in every way | 23 | |
| 10749339801 | Generalization | Assumes that a few examples or even a clear trend proves universal truth | 24 | |
| 10749346717 | Oversimplification | Reinterprets an idea in a simplified form, using some of the necessary subtleties and details | 25 | |
| 10749353636 | Overstatement | Exaggerates the claims of an argument and goes beyond its evidence | 26 | |
| 10749357510 | Statistics | Statistics are not facts, they are interpretations of facts that describe one part of a larger, more complex problem | 27 | |
| 10749391764 | Straw Man | Restates an opposing argument as a weak proposition | 28 |
