Thursday, August 9, 2007

Top 10 Logical Fallacies

Author: raj
Category: General

Via Skeptic’s Guide:

  1. Ad hominem

  2. Ad ignorantiam

  3. Argument from authority

  4. Argument from final Consequences

  5. Argument from Personal Incredulity

  6. Confusing association with causation

  7. Confusing currently unexplained with unexplainable

  8. False Continuum

  9. False Dichotomy

  10. Inconsistency

  11. The Moving Goalpost

  12. Non-Sequitur

  13. Post-hoc ergo propter hoc

  14. Reductio ad absurdum

  15. Slippery Slope

  16. Straw Man

  17. Special pleading, or ad-hoc reasoning

  18. Tautology

  19. Tu quoque Literally, you too

  20. Unstated Major Premise

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