Words trivia
Name a logical fallacy
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a logical fallacy”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 76 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
Right, but shallow: 6 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Ad hominem
- Straw man
- Slippery slope
- False dilemma
- Appeal to authority
- Red herring
The next answers people reach for
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Begging the question
- Circular reasoning
- Bandwagon
- Appeal to emotion
- Post hoc
- Hasty generalisation
- Tu quoque
- No true Scotsman
- Appeal to nature
- Appeal to tradition
- Gambler's fallacy
- Sunk cost fallacy
- Equivocation
- Loaded question
- Genetic fallacy
- Burden of proof
- Cherry picking
- Whataboutism
- Moving the goalposts
How deep does “Name a logical fallacy” go?
- The Tip6 answers · 10 ptsAd hominem · Straw man · Slippery slope
- Below the Surface19 answers · 25 ptsBegging the question · Circular reasoning · Bandwagon …
- The Deep28 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss22 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 28 answers starting with A, C, D, E, F, G, M, N, P, R, S and T. The Abyss has 22 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 76 answers in total, 71 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Post hoc”. Longest: “Fallacy of the undistributed middle”.
- A, F and C are the most common first letters; together they start 49% of the answers.
- 17 answers can be typed more than one way: “Argumentum ad lazarum” counts as Appeal to poverty.
How to go deeper
- Start with A: 22 of the answers begin with it.
- Ad hominem, Straw man and Slippery slope are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Think long: long words often hide the pattern you need, like the five vowels of “education” or “unquestionably”.
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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name a logical fallacy”?
- The usual first answers are Ad hominem, Straw man, Slippery slope, False dilemma and Appeal to authority. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a logical fallacy”?
- 76 in all: 6 on The Tip, 19 Below the Surface, 28 in The Deep, 22 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a logical fallacy” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Post hoc” and the longest is “Fallacy of the undistributed middle”.
- How hard is “Name a logical fallacy”?
- Medium. It takes some general knowledge. It comes up in Free play on Medium and Mixed.
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