Top 10 Fallacies

Know anything about fallacies? Well, you must if you're getting into an argument.

The Top Ten

  1. Straw Man

    A very common fallacy and one that is just annoying. It is basing an argument on a misrepresentation of the opposing position.

  2. Slippery Slope

    A small step that leads into a chain of events that really should not have happened.

  3. Ad Hominem

    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.

  4. Non Sequitur

    The simplest kind of fallacy, a formal one that is actually an invalid argument.

  5. Cherry Picking

    Picking out individual parts of data conforming to a certain position, as well as ignoring contradictory data. This is my least favorite fallacy.

  6. Appeal to Emotion

    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.

  7. False Analogy

    As simple as creating an analogy, but the analogy is easily misleading.

  8. Fallacy Fallacy

  9. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

  10. Equivocation

    When a certain term has more than one meaning, and one meaning of it is being misused.

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    Affirming the Consequent

  12. ?

    Begging the Question

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  13. Nirvana Fallacy

    Got a solution? It's rejected in this fallacy because it is not a "perfect" solution.

  14. Composition

  15. Moving the Goalposts

    Where evidence presented for a particular argument is dismissed for something that is perceived to be of greater importance to the argument.

  16. False Dilemma

  17. Middle Ground

  18. Bandwagon

    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.

  19. Appeal to Authority

  20. Appeal to Ignorance

  21. Genetic Fallacy

  22. Appeal to Tradition

  23. Tu Quoque

  24. Red Herring

  25. Circular Reasoning

  26. Guilt by Association

  27. No True Scotsman

    I think you all know what this is. For those who don't, search it up.

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