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| 2817579575 | Fallacy | (n.) a false notion or belief; an error in thinking | 0 | |
| 2817579990 | Ad Hominem | In an argument, this is an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas. It comes from the Latin meaning "against the man." | 1 | |
| 2817580736 | Argument from Authority | tempts us to agree with the writer's assumptions based on the authority of a famous person or entity or on his or her own character | 2 | |
| 2817582941 | Appeal to Ignorance | based on the assumption that whatever has not been proven false must be true | 3 | |
| 2817583355 | Begging the Question/Circular Reasoning | A fallacy in which a claim is based on evidence or support that is in doubt. | 4 | |
| 2817585280 | Hasty Generalization | a fallacy in which a speaker jumps to a general conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence | 5 | |
| 2817586490 | Non Sequitur / Does not follow | A statement that does not follow logically from evidence | 6 | |
| 2817587763 | False Dichotomy | Consists of a consideration of only the two extremes when there are one or more intermediate possibilities | 7 | |
| 2817588979 | Slippery Slope | A fallacy that assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that cannot be prevented. | 8 | |
| 2817590354 | Faulty Causality | setting up a cause-effect relationship when none exists | 9 | |
| 2817590535 | Straw Man Argument | oversimplification of an opponent's argument that makes it easier to attack | 10 | |
| 2817591308 | Sentimental Appeals | Arguments that use tender emotions excessively to distract readers from the facts. Emotions become an impediment to civil discourse when they keep people from thinking clearly. | 11 | |
| 2817591430 | Red Herring | A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion | 12 | |
| 2817591743 | Scare Tactics | Try to frighten people into agreeing with the arguer by threatening them or predicting unrealistically dire consequences | 13 | |
| 2817592219 | Bandwagon Appeals | encourages the audience to agree because everyone else does | 14 | |
| 2817592930 | Dogmatism | does not allow for debate or discussion because speaker believes s/he is beyond question | 15 | |
| 2817594905 | Equivocation | the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication | 16 | |
| 2817596002 | Faulty Analogy | an illogical, misleading comparison between two things | 17 |
