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| 11292592722 | ad hominem | diverting attention to the person advocating the opposite position rather than their argument; usually with disparaging statements instead of dealing with the issue | 0 | |
| 11292619716 | ad misericordiam | presenting pathos as logos | 1 | |
| 11292636781 | arguing in a circle/begging the question | one assumes the truth of a premise, draws a conclusion form the premise, then uses this conclusion to prove the initial premise | 2 | |
| 11292644567 | bandwagon | implies something is right because everyone is doing it | 3 | |
| 11292649370 | card stacking | states only those facts that support the point being made & ignores all other important evidence | 4 | |
| 11292659380 | either-or fallacy | gives only 2 alternatives when more exist, thus oversimplifying the issue | 5 | |
| 11292673948 | false analogy | a comparison in which differences outweigh the similarities, or assuming if 2 things are alike in 1 or a few ways that they are alike in all ways | 6 | |
| 11292714793 | false or irrelevant authority | cites an authority or "expert" who has no claim to expertise on the subject; attempts to transfer prestige from one area to another | 7 | |
| 11292727193 | false cause/causal/post hoc ergo propter hoc | confusing chronology with a cause and effect relationship | 8 | |
| 11292731496 | hasty generalization | draws a broad conclusion from inadequate evidence (ex. stereotyping) | 9 | |
| 11292740877 | non-sequitur | provides evidence that doesn't really prove the point (conclusion doesn't follow from evidence) | 10 | |
| 11292747731 | red herring | sidetracks an argument by presenting a totally unrelated issue | 11 | |
| 11292752764 | slippery slope | uses one weakness in a position to assume that the whole is doomed to failure | 12 | |
| 11292756577 | straw man | oversimplifies and argument to make it easier to refute or to make a choice seem obvious; relies on a creation of a false image of someone else's beliefs | 13 | |
| 11292766268 | sweeping generalization/ dicto simplicitor | overly general statement without evidence that needs to be qualified | 14 | |
| 11292789398 | contradictory premises | an argument that is contradictory because it asserts and denies the same premise | 15 | |
| 11292794380 | hypothesis contrary to fact | offering a poorly supported claim about what might have happened in the past/future if hypothetical conditions were different | 16 | |
| 11292805428 | poisoning the well | discrediting a person's claim by presenting unfavorable information (true or false) about the person before they begin speaking | 17 |
