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A

Abstraction

Abuse of Etymology

Accent

Accident

Affirmation of the Consequent

Affirmative Conclusion from a Negative Premiss

Affirming a Disjunct/ Affirming One Disjunct

Affirming the Consequent

Alternative Syllogism, Fallacy of the

Ambiguity

Ambiguous Middle

Amphiboly/ Amphibology

Anecdotal Fallacy

Argument by Consensus


Appeal to/
Argument from...

Authority

Celebrity

Consequences

Envy

Fear

Force

Hatred

Ignorance

Nature

Pity

Popularity

Pride


Argumentum ad...

Baculum

Consequentiam

Hominem

Ignorantiam

Invidiam

Logicam

Metum

Misericordiam

Naturam

Nazium

Odium

Populum

Superbiam

Verecundiam


Asserting an Alternative

Asserting the Consequent

Authority of the Many

B

Bad Company Fallacy

Bad Reasons Fallacy

Bandwagon Fallacy

Base Rate Fallacy

Beard, Argument of the/Fallacy of the

Begging the Question

Biased Sample

Bifurcation

Black-and-White Fallacy

Black-or-White Fallacy

C

Card Stacking

Circular Argument

Circulus in Probando

Commutation of Conditionals

The Company that You Keep Fallacy

Complex Question

Composition

Conjunction Effect / Conjunction Fallacy

Consequent, Fallacy of the

Converse Accident

Converting a Conditional

Cum Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

D

Denial of the Antecedent

Denying a Conjunct

Denying the Antecedent

Dicto Simpliciter

Disjunctive Syllogism, Fallacy of the

Division

Doctrine of the Maturity of Chances

Doublespeak

E

Either/Or Fallacy

Emotional Appeal

Equivocation

Etymological Fallacy

Exclusive Premisses

Existential Fallacy/Existential Assumption, Fallacy of

F

Fake Precision

Fallacist's/Fallacy Fallacy


False...

Analogy

Cause

Conversion

Dilemma

Precision


Faulty Analogy

Formal Fallacy

Four-Term Fallacy

G

Gambler's Fallacy

Genetic Fallacy

Guilt by Association

H

Hasty Generalization

Hitler Card

Hot Hand Fallacy

I

Ignoratio Elenchi

Ignoring the Counterevidence


Illicit...

Contraposition

Conversion

Major

Minor

Negative/ Affirmative

Process

Process of the Major

Process of the Minor

Quantifier Shift

Substitution of Identicals


Improper...

Disjunctive Syllogism

Transposition


Informal Fallacy

Ipse Dixit

Irrelevant Thesis

L

Loaded…

Language/Words

Question


Logical Fallacy

M

Many Questions

Masked Man Fallacy

Misplaced Precision

Modal Fallacy

Modal Scope Fallacy

Monte Carlo Fallacy

Multiple Comparisons Fallacy

N

Naturalistic Fallacy

Negating Antecedent and Consequent

Negative Conclusion from Affirmative Premisses

Neglecting Base Rates

Non Causa Pro Causa

O

One-Sided Assessment

One-Sidedness

Overgenerality

Overprecision

P

Personal Attack

Petitio Principii

Plurium Interrogationum

Poisoning the Well

Post Hoc

Probabilistic Fallacy

Propositional Fallacy

Q

Quantificational Fallacy

Quantifier Shift

Quaternio Terminorum


Question-Begging…

Analogy

Epithets


Questionable Analogy

Quoting Out of Context

R

Redefinition

Red Herring

Regression/Regressive Fallacy

S

Scope Fallacy

Slanting

Slippery Slope

Some Are/Some Are Not

Special Pleading

Spurious Accuracy

Straw Man

Suppressed Evidence

Sweeping Generalization

Syllogistic Fallacy

T

Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy

Transposition, Improper

Tu Quoque

Two Negative Premisses

Two Wrongs Make a Right

U

Undistributed Middle

Unrepresentative Sample

Unwarranted Contrast

V

Vagueness

Vicious Circle

Volvo Fallacy

W

Weak Analogy

Wishful Thinking


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