Category: Informal Fallacies
Informal fallacies are unsound arguments based on the fact that at least one of its premises is unsound. Informal fallacies may or may not use a valid logical form.
Appeal to Authority
Amphiboly
Amphiboly comes from the Greek word amphybolía, meaning ambiguity. In essence, this fallacy hinges on the meaning of a sentence being open to multiple ways of interpretation. Often, this even has a humoristic effect and it is therefore seldomly used as a serious attempt to win an argument by use of this fallacy. While the…
Anger
Alleged Certainty
Ad Verecundiam
Appeal to Ridicule
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…