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All answers to “Name a logical fallacy”
Every one of the 76 answers Icillion accepts, A to Z. 17 can be spelled more than one way. Which ones are rare stays a secret.
A
- Accent fallacy
- Ad hominem
- Ad nauseam
- Affirming a disjunct
- Affirming the consequent
- Amphiboly
- Anecdotal fallacy
- Appeal to authority
- Appeal to consequences
- Appeal to emotion
- Appeal to fear
- Appeal to flattery
- Appeal to forcealso Argumentum ad baculum
- Appeal to ignorancealso Argument from ignorance
- Appeal to nature
- Appeal to novelty
- Appeal to pity
- Appeal to povertyalso Argumentum ad lazarum
- Appeal to the stonealso Argumentum ad lapidem
- Appeal to tradition
- Appeal to wealthalso Argumentum ad crumenam
- Argument from silence
B
- Bandwagonalso Appeal to popularity, Ad populum, Argumentum ad populum
- Base rate fallacy
- Begging the questionalso Petitio principii
- Bulverism
- Burden of proof
C
- Causal oversimplificationalso Single cause fallacy
- Cherry picking
- Chronological snobbery
- Circular reasoning
- Conjunction fallacy
- Continuum fallacy
- Cum hoc ergo propter hoc
D
- Denying the antecedent
E
- Ecological fallacy
- Equivocation
- Existential fallacy
F
- Fallacy fallacyalso Argument from fallacy
- Fallacy of composition
- Fallacy of division
- Fallacy of exclusive premises
- Fallacy of the undistributed middlealso Undistributed middle
- False dilemmaalso False dichotomy
- False equivalence
- Four-term fallacyalso Quaternio terminorum
G
- Gambler's fallacy
- Genetic fallacy
- Guilt by association
H
- Hasty generalisationalso Hasty generalization
I
- Illicit major
- Illicit minor
L
- Loaded question
- Ludic fallacy
M
- Masked man fallacy
- McNamara fallacy
- Middle groundalso Argument to moderation
- Moving the goalposts
N
- Naturalistic fallacy
- Nirvana fallacyalso Perfect solution fallacy
- No true Scotsman
P
- Personal incredulity
- Poisoning the well
- Post hocalso Post hoc ergo propter hoc
- Prosecutor's fallacy
R
- Red herring
- Reductio ad Hitlerum
- Regression fallacy
S
- Slippery slope
- Slothful induction
- Special pleading
- Straw manalso Strawman
- Sunk cost fallacy
T
- Texas sharpshooter
- Tu quoque
W
- Whataboutism
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