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| 4477922786 | Faulty Analogy | Misleading Comparison between two things; bad analogy | 0 | |
| 4477924794 | Equivocation | Telling part of the truth, while hiding the entire truth. (I.e responding truthfully to someones badly phrased question; ignoring parts that are not relevant. "Does your dog bite"... "no"... "Ow he bit me! Liar!" .... "That's not my dog tho.") From Pink Panther movie | 1 | |
| 4477966015 | Dogmatism | When speaker presumes that they are always correct; "i'm nick, so im correct" | 2 | |
| 4477971203 | Bandwagon Appeals | Peer pressure | 3 | |
| 4477973582 | Scare Tactics | Intentionally scaring the audience | 4 | |
| 4477976352 | Red Herring | An attempt to shift attention away from an important issue by introducing an issue that has no logical connection to the discussion at hand | 5 | |
| 4477979757 | Sentimental Appeals | Pathos basically | 6 | |
| 4477982133 | Straw Man Argument | Oversimplifying other arguments; "Riot is just a company who is mad since we are so good at the game" | 7 | |
| 4477986278 | Faulty Casuality | Supposed cause and effect where one does not cause the other | 8 | |
| 4477989400 | Slippery Slope | Arguments that suggest dire consequences from relatively minor causes (If I stop jumping, the whole world will die!) | 9 | |
| 4477994749 | False Dichotomy | A consideration of only two extremes when there are actually more (You either get physics or you don't). Not true since you can have "middle" understanding | 10 | |
| 4478003311 | Non Sequitur | means "doesn't follow" A statement that does not logically relate to statement before it | 11 | |
| 4478008428 | Hasty Generalization | Using bad evidence; not credible. "League is dangerous since it made my friend addicted" | 12 | |
| 4478013846 | Begging the Question | "The Loch Ness monster spoke to me in my dreams, SO IT MUST EXIST!!!" Essentially, assuming that something that is not credible is indeed credible | 13 | |
| 4478028879 | Appeal to Ignorance | Based on the assumption that whatever has not been proven false must be true or vice versa. (i.e ghosts exist since they are not proven false) | 14 | |
| 4478034804 | Argument from Authority | Respecting an argument since it is from a famous person (opposite of Ad Hominem argument) | 15 | |
| 4478039967 | Ad Hominem Argument | Means "to the man". This is an argument opposing something else because of someones credibility. (Your wrong because your a JERK!!!). Opposite of Argument from authority. | 16 |
