Top 10 Fallacies
Know anything about fallacies? Well, you must if you are getting into an argument.A very common fallacy and one that is just annoying. It is basing an argument on a misrepresentation of the opposing position.
A small step that leads into a chain of events that really should not have happened.
In this case, the fallacy is a direct attack against an arguer rather than the argument itself. This shows that the person committing the ad hominem has no good counters.
The simplest kind of fallacy, a formal one that is actually an invalid argument.
Picking out individual parts of data conforming to a certain position, as well as ignoring contradictory data. This is my least favorite fallacy.
Pretty common for a fallacy these days, with progressivism surging it quite harshly. The argument is made due to manipulation of emotions, instead of valid reasoning.
As simple as creating an analogy, but the analogy is easily misleading.
When a certain term has more than one meaning, and one meaning of it is being misused.
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Got a solution? It's rejected in this fallacy because it is not a "perfect" solution.
Where evidence presented for a particular argument is dismissed for something that is perceived to be of greater importance to the argument.
When something is on the news and a certain thing is claimed, or when a certain advertisement comes up, viewers can get all excited and the hype can go up. But, as they say, such news makes things seem too good to be true.
I think you all know what this is. For those who don't, search it up.