Yet another red herring fallacy, the appeal to ridicule shifts the argument by using mockery. It occurs when the speaker tries to disprove the argument by making it sound like a joke. Its Latin name is reductio ad ridiculum, some call it an appeal to mockery as well. This type of argument is not used…
Month: January 2020
Ad Populum
Ad Ignorantiam
Tu Quoque
Ad Hominem
Ad Baculum
Ad Antiquitatem
Fallacy of Accident (Sweeping Generalization)
Have you ever heard someone make a sweeping generalization that just didn’t sit right with you? Perhaps they assumed that all lawyers are greedy, or that all teenagers are lazy. These kinds of statements are examples of the “Fallacy of Accident,” a common error in reasoning that can lead to flawed or biased thinking. In…
Accent
The fallacy of accent is a fallacy that arises when stressing different words of the sentence lead to different interpretations of the meaning of the sentence. In Latin it can be referred to as the Accentus, and we categorise it as an Informal Fallacy, of the type Equivocation fallacies. In written text, when it is…
Abusive Ad Hominem
In the realm of critical thinking, a fallacy is an error in reasoning that can undermine the validity of an argument or belief. Fallacies can take many forms, and it’s important to be able to identify them in order to make informed and rational decisions. One common fallacy is the “Abusive Ad Hominem” fallacy, which…