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| 12319246403 | red herring | introducing an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion | 0 | |
| 12319253894 | ad hominem | attacking the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute | 1 | |
| 12319263137 | faulty analogy | an illogical, misleading comparison between two things | 2 | |
| 12319295270 | straw man | choosing a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an idea | 3 | |
| 12319309430 | false dilemma | oversimplification that offers a limited number of options (usually two) when in fact more options are available. | 4 | |
| 12319314353 | hasty generalization | assuming a conclusion from limited evidence | 5 | |
| 12319328260 | circular reasoning | repeating a claim as a way to provide evidence | 6 | |
| 12319336474 | post hoc ergo propter hoc | assuming that X is the cause of Y because X happened before Y | 7 | |
| 12319359334 | appeal to false authority | when someone who has no expertise to speak on an issue is cited as an authority | 8 | |
| 12319364542 | bandwagon appeal | a claim that a listener should accept an argument because of how many other people have already accepted it | 9 | |
| 12319372451 | tu quoque | avoiding the main argument by accusing the speaker of hypocrisy | 10 | |
| 12319391268 | missing the point | the premises of an argument do support a particular conclusion—but not the conclusion that the arguer actually draws | 11 | |
| 12319394857 | appeal to pity | when an arguer tries to get people to accept a conclusion by making them feel sorry for someone | 12 | |
| 12319433724 | appeal to ignorance | arguing that a lack of evidence proves something | 13 | |
| 12319455903 | begging the question | when an arguer ignores an important (but questionable) assumption that the argument rests on | 14 | |
| 12319474789 | equivocation | sliding between two or more different meanings of a single word or phrase that is important to the argument | 15 | |
| 12320990966 | slippery slope | when an arguer claims that a chain reaction will take place, usually ending in some dire consequence, but there's not enough evidence for that assumption | 16 |
