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A LIST OF FALLACIOUS ARGUMENTS

* Ad Hominem (Argument To The Man)
* Affirming The Consequent
* Amazing Familiarity
* Ambiguous Assertion
* Appeal To Anonymous Authority
* Appeal To Authority
* Appeal To Coincidence
* Appeal To Complexity
* Appeal To False Authority
* Appeal To Force
* Appeal To Pity (Appeal to Sympathy, The Galileo Argument)
* Appeal To Widespread Belief (Bandwagon Argument, Peer Pressure, Appeal To Common Practice)
* Argument By Dismissal
* Argument By Emotive Language (Appeal To The People)
* Argument By Fast Talking
* Argument By Generalization
* Argument By Gibberish (Bafflement)
* Argument By Half Truth (Suppressed Evidence)
* Argument By Laziness (Argument By Uninformed Opinion)
* Argument By Personal Charm
* Argument By Pigheadedness (Doggedness)
* Argument By Poetic Language
* Argument By Prestigious Jargon
* Argument By Question
* Argument By Repetition (Argument Ad Nauseam)
* Argument by Rhetorical Question
* Argument By Scenario
* Argument By Selective Observation
* Argument By Selective Reading
* Argument By Slogan
* Argument By Vehemence
* Argument From Adverse Consequences (Appeal To Fear, Scare Tactics)
* Argument From Age (Wisdom of the Ancients)
* Argument From Authority
* Argument From False Authority
* Argument From Small Numbers
* Argument From Spurious Similarity
* Argument Of The Beard
* Argument To The Future
* Bad Analogy
* Begging The Question (Assuming The Answer, Tautology)
* Burden Of Proof
* Causal Reductionism (Complex Cause)
* Changing The Subject (Digression, Red Herring, Misdirection, False Emphasis)
* Cliche Thinking
* Common Sense
* Complex Question (Tying)
* Confusing Correlation And Causation
* Disproof By Fallacy
* Equivocation
* Error Of Fact
* Euphemism
* Exception That Proves The Rule
* Excluded Middle (False Dichotomy, Faulty Dilemma, Bifurcation)
* Extended Analogy
* Failure To State
* Fallacy Of Composition
* Fallacy Of Division
* Fallacy Of The General Rule
* Fallacy Of The Crucial Experiment
* False Cause
* False Compromise
* Genetic Fallacy (Fallacy of Origins, Fallacy of Virtue)
* Having Your Cake (Failure To Assert, or Diminished Claim)
* Hypothesis Contrary To Fact
* Inconsistency
* Inflation Of Conflict
* Internal Contradiction
* Least Plausible Hypothesis
* Lies
* Meaningless Questions
* Misunderstanding The Nature Of Statistics (Innumeracy)
* Moving The Goalposts (Raising The Bar, Argument By Demanding Impossible Perfection)
* Needling
* Non Sequitur
* Not Invented Here
* Outdated Information
* Pious Fraud
* Poisoning The Wells
* Psychogenetic Fallacy
* Reductio Ad Absurdum
* Reductive Fallacy (Oversimplification)
* Reifying
* Short Term Versus Long Term
* Slippery Slope Fallacy (Camel's Nose)
* Special Pleading (Stacking The Deck)
* Statement Of Conversion
* Stolen Concept
* Straw Man (Fallacy Of Extension)
* Two Wrongs Make A Right (Tu Quoque, You Too)
* Weasel Wording

Some other Web sites:

* Critical thinking vs. Specious arguments
* The Nizkor Project
* Propaganda Techniques Related to Environmental Scares
* Logical Fallacies
* Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project
* The Atheism Web: Logic & Fallacies
* South Shore Skeptics
* Introductory Logic
* Elementary Logic
* Practical skepticism
* Bruce Thompson's Fallacy Page
* Critical Thinking On The Web
* Conversational Terrorism: How NOT to Talk !
* Love is a Fallacy, a funny short story by Max Shulman.
* How to Win Any Argument On The Internet, a cheerfully obscene guide to flaming.
* How to Argue and Win every time. Alcohol and lying appear to be involved.

Recently added and changed entries:

* Argument By Dismissal
* Argument By Vehemence

* Affirming The Consequent
* Argument By Emotive Language (Appeal To The People)
* Misunderstanding The Nature Of Statistics (Innumeracy)
* Moving The Goalposts (Raising The Bar, Argument By Demanding Impossible Perfection)
* Not Invented Here

SOURCE:

www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html

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