krods fallacies
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| 6263344272 | Ad Hominem | an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas. | 0 | |
| 6263344273 | Argument from Authority | the conclusion rests on a statement made by some presumed authority or witness. | 1 | |
| 6263344274 | Appeal to ignorance | Assumption that whatever cannot be proven false must be true (or vice versa). | 2 | |
| 6263344275 | begging the question | someone assumes that parts of what the person claims to be proving are proven facts | 3 | |
| 6263344276 | hasty generalization | drawing conclusions based on insufficient or unrepresentative evidence | 4 | |
| 6263344277 | non sequitar | Comments or information that do not logically follow from a premise or the conclusion. | 5 | |
| 6263344278 | false dichotomy | consideration of only the two extremes when there are one or more intermediate possibilities | 6 | |
| 6263344279 | slippery slope | assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that cannot be prevented | 7 | |
| 6263344280 | false casualty | refers to setting up of a cause and effect relationship when one does not exist | 8 | |
| 6263344281 | straw man argument | consists of an oversimplification of an opponent's argument to make it easier to attack | 9 | |
| 6263344282 | sentimental appeals | appeal to the hearts of readers/listeners so that they forget to use their minds. | 10 | |
| 6263344283 | red herring | introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion | 11 | |
| 6263344284 | scare tactics | using fear, panic, or prejudice to win an emotional argument | 12 | |
| 6263344285 | bandwagon appeals | agree with a position because everyone else does | 13 | |
| 6263344286 | dogmatism | the speaker presumes that his or her beliefs are beyond question | 14 | |
| 6263344287 | equivocation | telling part of the truth, while deliberately hiding the entire truth | 15 | |
| 6263344288 | faulty analogy | misleading comparison between two things | 16 |
