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| 4236033882 | Ad Hominem (Latin for "The Man") | Directly attacks someone's appearance, personal habits, or character rather than focusing on the merit of the issue at hand. This fallacy implies that if something is wrong with this person, then anything they say must be wrong. | 0 | |
| 4236036740 | Ad Populum (bandwagon appeal) | Appeal to the popularity of the item, person, etc., as a reason for accepting it. | 1 | |
| 4236050881 | Argument from Authority | Using an authority figure as evidence in an argument when the authority is not really an authority on the facts relevant to the argument. | 2 | |
| 4236050882 | Appeal to Ignorance | An argument for or against a proposition on the basis of the lack of evidence against or for it. If there is positive evidence for the conclusion, then we of course would have to accept it, but lack of evidence by itself is no evidence. | 3 | |
| 4236054329 | Begging the Question | This is a kind of circular argument where the support only restates the claim. | 4 | |
| 4236055650 | Hasty Generalization | A conclusion based on insufficient or unrepresentative evidence. Stereotypes and sexism are forms of this fallacy. | 5 | |
| 4236057663 | Non Sequitur | When the conclusion does not follow the premises (argument/statement); when what is presented as evidence or reason is irrelevant or adds very little support to the conclusion. | 6 | |
| 4236059909 | Slippery Slope | When a relatively insignificant first event is suggested to lead to a more significant event, which in turn leads to a more significant event, and so on, until some ultimate significant event is reached, where the connection of each event is not only unwarranted, but with each step it becomes more and more probable. | 7 | |
| 4236061842 | Strawman | Substituting a person's actual position or argument with a distorted, exaggerated, or misrepresented version of the position of the argument. | 8 | |
| 4236063553 | Sentimental Appeal (appeal to emotion) | General category of fallacies that use emotion in the place of reason in order to attempt to win the argument. This is a type of manipulation used in place of valid logic. | 9 | |
| 4236064763 | Red Herring (besides the point) | Attempts to redirect the argument to another issue that to which the person doing the redirecting can better respond. This is a deliberate diversion of attention with the intention of trying to abandon the original argument. | 10 | |
| 4236064764 | Scare Tactics (appeal to fear) | When fear, not based on evidence or reason, is being used as the primary motivator to get others to accept an idea, proposition, or conclusion | 11 | |
| 4236066559 | Dogmatism | Unfounded positiveness i n matters of of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths. | 12 | |
| 4236066560 | Equivocation | Using an ambiguous term in more than one sense, thus making an argument misleading. | 13 | |
| 4236078511 | Faulty Analogy | Claims comparisons when differences outweigh similarities (basically comparing apples to oranges). | 14 | |
| 4236078655 | False Dilemma (False Dichotomy) | Asserts that a complex situation can have only two possible outcomes and that one of the options is necessary or preferable. | 15 | |
| 4236146122 | post hoc, ergo proctor hoc (after this, therefore caused by this) | This fallacy assumes that just because "B" happened after "A", it must have been caused by "A" (favorite among politicians). | 16 |
