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| 5531382931 | Strawman | you misinterpreted someone's argument to make it easier to attack | 0 | |
| 5531382932 | false cause | you presumed that a real or perceived relationship between one thing is the cause of the other | 1 | |
| 5531383178 | appeal to emotion | you attempted to manipulate an emotional response in place of a valid or compelling argument | 2 | |
| 5531385864 | the fallacy fallacy | You presumed that because a claim has been poorly argued, or a fallacy has been made, that the claim itself must be wrong | 3 | |
| 5531385865 | slippery slope | you said that if we let A happen , that Z will eventually happen. Therefore A should not happen | 4 | |
| 5531388272 | ad hominem | you attacked your opponents character or personality traits in an attempt to undermine their argument | 5 | |
| 5531388273 | tu quoque | you avoided having to engage with criticism by turning it back on the accuser - you answered criticism with criticism. | 6 | |
| 5531390663 | personal increduilty | because you found something difficult to understand, or are unaware of how it looks you made it out like it is probably not true | 7 | |
| 5531390664 | special pleading | you move the goalposts or made up an execption when your claim was proven false | 8 | |
| 5531392646 | loaded question | you asked a question that had a presumtion built into it so that it could not be answered without appearing guilty | 9 | |
| 5531392647 | burden of proof | you said that the burden of proof lies not with the person making the claim, but with someone else to disprove | 10 | |
| 5531392712 | ambiguity | you used a double meaning or ambiguity of language to mislead or misinterpret the truth | 11 | |
| 5531395086 | the gambler's fallacy | You said that 'runs' occur to statistically independent phenomena such as roulette wheel spins. | 12 | |
| 5531395087 | bandwagon | you appealed to popularity or the fact that many people do something as an attempted form of validation | 13 | |
| 5531398050 | composition/divison | You assumed that one part of something has to be applied to all, or other, parts of it; or that the whole must apply to its parts. | 14 | |
| 5531401182 | no true scotsman | You made what could be called an appeal to purity as a way to dismiss relevant criticisms or flaws of your argument. | 15 | |
| 5531401183 | genetic | you judged something as either good or bad on the basis of where it comes from, or who it came from | 16 | |
| 5531401184 | black or white | you presented two alternative states as the the only possibilities, when in fact more possibilities exist | 17 | |
| 5531403474 | begging question | you presented a circular argument in which the conclusion was included in the premise | 18 | |
| 5531403475 | appeal to nature | you argued that because something is 'natural' it is therefore valid, justified, inevitable, good or ideal. | 19 | |
| 5531403476 | anecdotal | You used a personal experience or an isolated example instead of a sound argument or compelling evidence. | 20 | |
| 5531406244 | Texas sharpshooter | You cherry-picked a data cluster to suit your argument, or found a pattern to fit a presumption. | 21 | |
| 5531406245 | middle ground | you claimed that a compromise or a middle point between two extremes must be the truth | 22 | |
| 5531531472 | appeal to authority | you said that that because an authority thinks something, it must therefore be true | 23 |
