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| 6600972183 | Ad hominem | Criticizes the person who made the comment rather than the idea | 0 | |
| 6600972184 | Argument from authority | Temptation to agree with the individual based on their fame or character | 1 | |
| 6600972185 | Appeal to ignorance | Whatever has not been proven false, must be true | 2 | |
| 6600972186 | Hasty generalization | Deliberately leads reader to a conclusion by providing insufficient, selective evidence | 3 | |
| 6600972187 | Non sequitur | Means "It doesn't follow"; a statement that does not logically relate to what comes before it | 4 | |
| 6600972188 | False dichotomy | Consideration of only the two extremes when there are one or more indermediate possibilities | 5 | |
| 6600972189 | Slippery slope | Suggestion of dire consequences from minor causes | 6 | |
| 6600972190 | Faulty casualty | Setting up of a cause and effect relationship when none exists Ex: Violent crime among adolescents has risen in the past decade, and that is the result of increased sales of violent video games | 7 | |
| 6600972191 | Straw man | An oversimplification of an opponent's argument to make it easier to attack | 8 | |
| 6600972192 | Sentimental appeal | Attempts to appeal to the hearts of readers so they forget to use their minds | 9 | |
| 6600972193 | Red herring | Shifts attention away from an important issue by introducing an issue that has no logical connection | 10 | |
| 6600972194 | Scare tactics | Frightens readers or listeners into agreeing with the speaker | 11 | |
| 6600972195 | Bandwagon appeal | Encourages the listener to agree with a position because everyone else does | 12 | |
| 6600972196 | Dogmatism | The speaker presumes that his or her beliefs are beyond question Ex: logic = I am correct because I am correct | 13 | |
| 6600972197 | Equivocation | Telling part of the truth but not the whole truth | 14 | |
| 6600972198 | Faulty analogy | Illogical, misleading comparison between two things | 15 |
