A handy collection of the most common logical fallacies for you to bookmark.Watch out for these in your next argument.
Rejecting an argument because the person advancing it fails to practice what he or she preaches.
An arguer tries to sidetrack his or her audience by raising an irrelevant issue and then claims that the original issue ...
Someone distorts or caricatures an opponent’s arguments or views, and then attacks the weakened version rather than the ...
Rejecting someone’s argument by attacking the person rather than evaluating their argument on its merits.
Insisting that a claim is true simply because a valid authority or expert on the issue said it was true, without any oth...
Arguing that what is true of the parts must be true of the whole. (All of the parts of the object O have the property P....
Arguing that what is true of the whole must be true of the parts. (The opposite of the fallacy of composition: Object O ...
A key word is used in two or more senses in the same argument and the apparent success of the argument depends on the sh...
Arguing that a claim must be true because lots of people believe it.
Something is accepted as true or better because it's the ''way it's always been done.''
The arguer asserts that a claim must be true because no one has proven it false, or that a claim must be false because n...
An arguer attempts to evoke feelings of pity or compassion, when such feelings are not logically relevant to the arguer’...
When the premises that are meant to support an argument already assume that the conclusion is true
Occurs when an argument presents two options and gives the impression that only one of them may be true, never both, and...
Sometimes the conditions that make the use of a term appropriate vary along a continuum and there is no sharp cut off be...
Arguers say that an innocent-looking first step should not be taken because once taken, it will be impossible not to tak...
Drawing a conclusion based on a small sample size, rather than looking at statistics that are much more in line with th...
The conclusion of an argument depends upon a comparison between two (or more) things that are not actually similar in re...
The fallacy of inferring that merely because an argument contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.