Fallacy's

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Ad Populum

(Latin for appeal to the people") is a fallacious argument that concludes that a proposition is true because many or most people believe it: "If many believe so, it is so.

Appeal to ignorance

(Latin: argument-um ad ignorant), also known as appeal to ignorance (in which ignorance stands for "lack of evidence to the contrary"), is a fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false (or vice versa).

Appeal to pity

(also called argument ad misericordiam or the Galileo argument) is a fallacy in which someone tries to win support for an argument or idea by exploiting his or her opponent's feelings of pity or guilt.

Ad Hominem

(of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.

Post Hoc/ False cause

.Post hoc is a particularly tempting error because temporal sequence appears to be integral to causality. .

Red herring

a dried smoked herring, which is turned red by the smoke.

Fallacy

a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument.

Straw man

a person compared to a straw image; a sham.

Weak Analogy

also called a false analogy, faulty analogy, and questionable analogy, is an informal logical fallacy that is based on faulty use of an analogy. The fallacy takes the following form: A is like B in some way. B has property.

False dichotomy

false dichotomy, false binary, black-and-white thinking, bifurcation, denying a conjunct, the either-or fallacy, fallacy of exhaustive hypotheses, the fallacy of false choice, the fallacy of the false alternative, or the fallacy of the excluded middle) is a type of informal fallacy

Blessing the question

is "the act or words of one that blesses," or "a thing conducive to happiness or welfare." In the Bible, there are several words that are usually translated as "blessing" or "bless."

Slippery Slope

is a fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question.

Appeal to authority

is a fallacy with the following form: Person A is (claimed to be) an authority on subject S. Person A makes claim C about subject S. Therefore, C is true.

Hasty generation

is an informal fallacy of faulty generalization by reaching an inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence—essentially making a hasty conclusion without considering all of the variables.

Missing the Point

to fail to understand the important part of something.


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