What is?
Equivocation
What is: Change of meaning during argument?
An excellent baseball team is composed of mediocre players.
What is: Composition and Division? Just because the team is excellent does not mean that each player will be excellent as a player.
False Dilemma
What is: Black and White?
Hillary Clinton has been called names such as, "Killary Clinton," "Crooked Hillary," "Hitlery," “Defender of Child rapists,” “Wicked Witch of the West Wing,” and, “The Devil.” these names are an example of what fallacy?
What is: Ad Hominem?
False Dilemma is also know as black and white but it is also known as...
What is: False Dichotomy?
Slippery Slope
What is: an idea or course of action which will lead to something unacceptable, wrong, or disastrous? (snow ball or domino effect)
The room is dark, so the lamp is broken.
What is: Affirming the consequent? (invalidly inferring its converse) "If the lamp were broken, then the room would be dark"
Circular Reasoning
What is: circle in proving?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has said, "I've actually never met anybody who likes their insurance company." This is an example of:
What is: No true scotsman?
This can lead to people to believe stereotypes or untrue information
What is: Hasty Generalization? (a.k.a. jumping to conclusions)
False Dilemma
What is: The presentation of the facts as only having two options, when in reality there are more options available?
Everyone is rooting for the Chiefs, after all, they won the superbowl last year too!
What is: appeal to bandwagon?
Not a Cause for a Cause
What is: false cause?
Recently in the news, we have seen both political parties call each other out for "peaceful riots" and a " serious insurrection" this would be an example of:
What is: Appeal to hypocrisy?
Not a cause for a cause is known as false cause and...
What is: The third-cause fallacy?
Straw Man
What is: an intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument?
The defendant in a murder trial must be found guilty, because otherwise husbands will be encouraged to murder their wives.
What is: Argument from consequences
Ad Hominem
What is: the abusive fallacy?
Trump was famous for saying 'big stuff', for example a tweet of his reads, “people are seeing ‘big stuff’.”
What is: Circular Reasoning?
This is an example of what fallacy? “We have no evidence that the Illuminati ever existed. They must have been so clever they destroyed all the evidence.”
What is: appeal to ignorance?
Ad Hominem
What is: Directed to the person rather than the argument?
You're not going to wear a wedding ring, are you? Don't you know that the wedding ring originally symbolized ankle chains worn by women to prevent them from running away from their husbands? I would not have thought you would be a party to such a sexist practice.
What is: Genetic Fallacy?
Appeal to Bandwagon
What is: argumentum ad populum ("appeal to the people")?
Tom Cruise says on TV that Billy Boy Butter is the best tasting butter there is. Tom Cruise is awesome -- especially in MI4 when he scaled that building with only one suction glove; therefore, Billy Boy Butter is the best tasting butter there is!
What is: Appeal to Authority/appeal to celebrity
This is an example of, “Either we go to war, or we appear weak.” or “Either you love me, or you hate me.”
What is: false dilemma fallacy?