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| 8027332965 | Ad Hominem | Directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining: "you're wrong because you're a jerk." | 0 | |
| 8027332966 | Argument from Authority | The argument tends to agree with assumptions because someone in a position of power said it or agreed with it: "they must know what they're talking about because they have a PhD"; watch out for argument from authority with celebrities, specifically. | 1 | |
| 8027332967 | Appeal to Ignorance | Based on the assumption that if it has not been proved, it is true: "I can't prove there isn't a Lockness monster, so there must be one." | 2 | |
| 8027332969 | Hasty Generalization | A faulty conclusion is reached because of inadequate evidence: "smoking isn't bad for you; my great aunt smoked a pack a day and lived to 90." | 3 | |
| 8027332974 | Straw Man | Occurs when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an idea: "Politician X wants to put men on Mars. Politician Y ridicules him by accusing him of putting "little green men in outer space." | 4 | |
| 8027332976 | Red Herring | Attempts to shift the attention away from an important topic of discussion to another topic that has nothing to do with the original discussion. | 5 | |
| 8027332978 | Bandwagon Appeal | When evidence boils down to "everybody's doing it, so it must be a good thing to do." | 6 | |
| 8027332980 | Either/or or False Dilemma | The speaker presents two extreme options as the only possible choices: "Either we agree to higher taxes, or our grandchildren will be in extreme debt for the rest of their lives." | 7 | |
| 8027332981 | Faulty Analogy | An analogy that compares two incomparable things: "we put animals who are in irreversible pain out of their misery, so we should do the same for humans." | 8 | |
| 8027488708 | Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc | Latin for "after which therefore because of which," meaning it is incorrect to always claim that something is a cause just because it happened earlier: "Thanks, Obama." | 9 |
