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| 5101493056 | dicto simpliciter | a truth might be good for only part of the audience, but you present it as if it's good for everyone (starts with truth good for some, but not all, then applied to all) | 0 | |
| 5101497939 | post hoc | the assumption that just because one event followed another, the first event caused the second | 1 | |
| 5101497940 | poisoning the well | Attacking the person and not the argument | 2 | |
| 5101503216 | contradictory premises | the premises of an argument contradict each other, so there can be no argument | 3 | |
| 5101503217 | ad misericordiam | an appeal for sympathy | 4 | |
| 5101507194 | false analogy | An argument using an inappropriate metaphor. To help understand one thing in an argument we compare it to something else that is not at all relevant. The earth is like a watch and, just as a fine watch was made, so also the earth was made. | 5 | |
| 5101509781 | hypothesis contrary to fact | Occurs when a person states something that isn't true or that might have happened, then draws a conclusion from those hypothetical premises. | 6 | |
| 5101512170 | sweeping generalization | make an oversimplified statement about a group based on limited info | 7 | |
| 5101514460 | hasty generalization | a fallacy in which a speaker jumps to a general conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence | 8 | |
| 5101517729 | faulty analogy | fallacy that occurs when an analogy compares two things that are not comparable | 9 |
