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Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.
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Logical Fallacies
Formal
In propositional logic
Affirming a disjunct
Affirming the consequent
Denying the antecedent
Argument from fallacy
Masked-man fallacy
Mathematical fallacy
In quantificational logic
Existential fallacy
Affirming the consequent
Proof by example
Quantifier shift
Syllogistic fallacy
Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise
Fallacy of exclusive premises
Existential fallacy
Modal scope fallacy
Fallacy of four terms
Illicit major
Illicit minor
Negative conclusion from affirmative premises
Fallacy of the undistributed middle
Informal
Equivocation
Equivocation
False equivalence
False attribution
Quoting out of context
Loki's Wager
No true Scotsman
Reification
Question-begging
Circular reasoning
/
Begging the question
Loaded language
Leading question
Compound question
/
Loaded question
/
Complex question
No true Scotsman
Correlative-based
False dilemma
Nirvana fallacy
Denying the correlative
Suppressed correlative
[Illicit transference
Fallacy of composition
Fallacy of division
Ecological fallacy
Secundum quid
Accident
Converse accident
Faulty generalization
Anecdotal evidence
Sampling bias
Cherry picking
McNamara fallacy
Base rate fallacy
/
Conjunction fallacy
Double counting (fallacy)
Argument from analogy
/ False analogy
Slothful induction
Overwhelming exception
Ambiguity
Fallacy of accent
False precision
Moving the goalposts
Quoting out of context
Slippery slope
Sorites paradox
Syntactic ambiguity
Questionable cause
Animistic fallacy
Furtive fallacy
Correlation implies causation
Cum hoc
Post hoc
Gambler's fallacy
Inverse gambler's fallacy
Regression fallacy
Fallacy of the single cause
Slippery slope
Texas sharpshooter fallacy
Appeal to emotion
Appeal to fear
Appeal to flattery
Appeal to novelty
Appeal to pity
Appeal to ridicule
Think of the children
In-group favoritism
Invented here
/
Not invented here
Island mentality
Appeal to loyalty
Parade of horribles
Appeal to spite
Flag-waving
/ Stirring symbols
Wisdom of repugnance
Genetic fallacy
Ad hominem
Appeal to motive
Association fallacy
Reductio ad Hitlerum
Godwin's law
Red-baiting
Bulverism
Poisoning the well
Tone policing
Tu quoque
Whataboutism
Argument from authority
Appeal to accomplishment
Ipse dixit
Argumentum ad lazarum
(Poverty) /
Argumentum ad crumenam
Etymological fallacy
Appeal to nature
Appeal to tradition
/
Appeal to novelty
Chronological snobbery
Appeal to consequences
Argumentum ad baculum
Wishful thinking
Other fallacies of relevance
Ad nauseam
Sealioning
Argument to moderation
Argumentum ad populum
Appeal to the stone
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Proof by assertion
Irrelevant conclusion
Appeal to the law
Argument from anecdote
Argument from silence
Invincible ignorance fallacy
Moralistic fallacy
/
Naturalistic fallacy
Motte-and-bailey fallacy
Rationalization
Red herring
Two wrongs make a right
Special pleading
Straw man
Cliché
I'm entitled to my opinion
This list of
Logical Fallacies
uses Wikipedia's names for the fallacies. Please do not change them.
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