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Complete List Of All Fallacies
- Absurd Extrapolation (Slippery Slope)
- Abusive Ad Hominem
- Accident
- Ad Antiquitatem
- Ad Baculum
- Ad Crumenam
- Ad Hominem
- Ad Hominem Abusive
- Ad Ignorantiam
- Ad Numerum
- Ad Populum
- Ad Verecundiam
- Affirmative Conclusion From A Negative Premise
- Affirming a Disjunct
- Affirming the Consequent
- Alleged Certainty
- Ambiguous Middle Term
- Amphibology
- Amphiboly
- Anger
- Appeal to Accomplishment
- Appeal to Authority
- Appeal to Belief
- Appeal to Common Belief
- Appeal to Common Practice
- Appeal to Consequences
- Appeal to Consequences of a Belief
- Appeal to Emotion
- Appeal to Fear
- Appeal to Flattery
- Appeal to Force
- Appeal to Ignorance
- Appeal to Majority
- Appeal to Motive
- Appeal to Nature
- Appeal to Novelty
- Appeal to Pity
- Appeal to Popularity
- Appeal to Poverty
- Appeal to Probability
- Appeal to Ridicule
- Appeal to Spite
- Appeal to Sympathy
- Appeal to the Stone
- Appeal to Tradition
- Appeal to Trust
- Appeal to Wealth
- Argument from Fallacy (Fallacy fallacy)
- Argument from Ignorance
- Argument from Ignorance
- Argument from Incredulity
- Argument from Repetition
- Argument from Silence
- Argument to Moderation
- Assertion
- Association Fallacy
- Attack the Person
- Baconian Fallacy
- Bandwagon Fallacy
- Base Rate fallacy
- Begging the Question
- Being Entiteled to One’s Opinion
- Biased Sample
- Bifurcation
- Black and White Thinking
- Bulverism, psychogenetic fallacy
- Burden of proof
- Butterfly Logic
- Canceling Hypotheses
- Cherry Picking
- Chicken and Egg argument
- Chronological snobbery
- Circular Definition
- Circular Reasoning
- Circumstantial Ad Hominem
- Complex Question
- Concretism
- Conjunction Fallacy
- Consequences
- Conspiracy Theory
- Continuum Fallacy
- Converse Accident
- Correlative-based Fallacies
- Courtier’s Reply
- Cum Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
- Definist Fallacy
- Denying the Antecedent
- Denying the Correlative
- Destroying the Exception
- Dicto Simpliciter
- Discredit
- Divine Fallacy
- Double Bind
- Double Counting
- Ecological Fallacy
- Either / Or
- Emphasis
- Equivocation
- Etymological fallacy
- Exception Fallacy
- Excluded Middle
- Existential Fallacy
- Fallacy of Accent
- Fallacy of Composition
- Fallacy of Division
- Fallacy of Exclusion
- Fallacy of Exclusive Premises
- Fallacy of Four Terms
- Fallacy of Quoting Out of Context
- Fallacy of the Single Cause
- Fallacy of the undistributed middle
- Fallacy of Unrepresentive Samples
- False Analogy
- False attribution
- False Authority
- False Cause
- False Compromise
- False Dichotomy
- False Dilemma
- False Division
- False Effect
- False Equivalance
- False Metaphor
- False Question
- Faulty Deduction
- Faulty Induction
- Feedback Fallacy
- Four Terms
- From Ignorance
- Furtive Fallacy
- Gambler’s Fallacy
- Generalization
- Genetic Fallacy
- Hasty Generalization
- Hasty Induction
- Historians Fallacy
- Historical Fallacy
- Homunculus fallacy
- Hypostatisation
- If-by-whiskey
- Ignorance of Refutation
- Ignoratio Elenchi
- Ignoring a Common Cause
- Illicit Major
- Illicit Minor
- In a Certain Respect and Simply
- In Terrorem
- Incomplete Comparison
- Inconsistency
- Inconsistent Comparison
- Inductive Generalization
- Insignificance
- Insufficient Sample
- Insufficient Statistics
- Intentionality Fallacy
- Inverse Gambler’s Fallacy
- Ipse Dixit
- Irrelevant Conclusion
- Is-ought Fallacy
- Judgemental Language
- Kafkatrapping
- Kettle Logic
- Leaping to Conclusion
- Loaded Question
- Logical Inconsistency
- Lonely Fact
- Ludic Fallacy
- Magical Thinking
- Many Questions
- Masked Man Fallacy
- Mathematical Fallacy
- McNamara Fallacy
- Mind Projection Fallacy
- Misleading Vividness
- Misplaced Concreteness
- Missing the Point
- Missing the Point, Irrelevant Conclusion
- Modal Fallacy
- Modal Scope Fallacy
- Moralistic Fallacy
- Motte-and-bailey
- Moving the Goalposts
- Nagging
- Naturalistic Fallacy
- Negative conclusion from affirmative premises
- Nirvana Fallacy
- No True Scotsman
- Non Causa Pro Causa
- Non Sequitur
- Overwhelming Exception
- Personal Inconsistency
- Persuasive Definition
- Petitio Principii
- Plurium Interrogationum
- Poisoning the Well
- Polarization
- Pooh-pooh
- Post Hoc
- Post hoc, ergo propter hoc
- Proof by Assertion
- Prosecutor’s Fallacy
- Proving Too Much
- Psychologist’s Fallacy
- Questionable Cause
- Reasoning in a Circle
- Red Herring
- Reductio ad Absurdum
- Referential Fallacy
- Regression Fallacy
- Reification
- Reification
- Repetition
- Retrospective Determinism
- Scare Tactics
- Secundum quid et simpliciter
- Slippery Slope
- Slothful Induction
- Social Conformance
- Special Pleading
- Splitting the Difference
- Statistical Generalization
- Strawman
- Style over Substance
- Suppressed Correlative
- Surpressed Correlative
- Survivorship Bias
- Sweeping Generalization
- Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
- Thought-terminating Cliché
- Tone Policing
- Traitorous Critic Fallacy
- Tu Quoque
- Two Wrongs Make a Right
- Undistributed Middle
- Unrepresentative Sample
- Vacuous Truth
- Value of Community
- Weak Analogy
- Wishful Thinking
- Wrong Direction
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