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| 15680375920 | Ad Hominem | 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 | |
| 15680375921 | bandwagon appeal | Appeal to the popularity of the item, person, etc., as a reason for accepting it. Many people believe it or agree with it, so it must be true. | 1 | |
| 15680375923 | Hasty Generalization | A conclusion based on insufficient or unrepresentative evidence. Stereotypes and sexism are forms of this fallacy. | 2 | |
| 15680375924 | 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. | 3 | |
| 15680375925 | 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. | 4 | |
| 15680375926 | Strawman | Misrepresenting someone's argument to make it easier to attack. Arguing something related to the topic but avoiding the actual topic | 5 | |
| 15680375927 | False/Faulty Causality | The incorrect assumption that because one event followed another, the first caused the second | 6 | |
| 15680375928 | Appeal to pity/overly emotional appeal | use emotion to distract the audience from the facts | 7 | |
| 15680375932 | Weak Analogy | Claims comparisons when differences outweigh similarities (basically comparing apples to oranges). | 8 | |
| 15680375933 | Authority Fallacy | A fallacy that offers the speaker/writer's authority as the sole reason for believing a claim. | 9 | |
| 15680375934 | either/or fallacy | the false reasoning that there are only two options that exist | 10 | |
| 15680442748 | Appeal to ignorance | saying that something must be true (or false) because there isn't evidence to the contrary | 11 |
