I can argue good
I am right about this
I can prove it
Wanna bet?
Believe me!
100

Misrepresenting information, data, or facts in an argument

Distorting the facts

100

Supporting a position by instilling irrational fear of the alternatives

Appeal to Fear

100

Creating negative associations preemptively to discredit another person or position

Poisoning the well

100

Saying that something is true because there is no evidence against it.

Appeal to Ignorance

100

Using a word or phrase or claim that gives rise to more than one possible interpretation

Ambiguity

200

Reducing a complex thing to a simple cause or consequence

Oversimplification

200

Misrepresenting an argument so that you can attack the misrepresentation rather than the actual argument

Straw Man

200

Comparing two things that may be similar in some ways but remain different in other ways

False Analogy

200

Asserting that a claim is true by citing someone thought to be an authority, regardless of the merits of the position or the relevance of the authority's expertise

Appeal to Authority

200

Presupposing facts that are assumed in the question itself

Many Questions

300

Distorting evidence to support a preexisting belief or idea

Protecting the Hypothesis

300

Justifying a weak idea or position by changing or qualifying it each time it is challenged

Death by a thousand qualifications

300

Making two words or phrases equivalent in meaning while ignoring contextual differences

equivocation

300

Presenting a question or issue intended to divert and distract from the central or most relevant question or issue

red herring

300

Making an unwarranted claim by misapplying or misusing rules and standards

Special pleading

400

Making an unwarranted claim by misapplying or misusing rules and standards

Special Pleading

400

Jumping to conclusions based on insufficient evidence or biases

Hasty Generalization

400

Assuming that all members of a set share characteristics of the set as a whole

Division

400

Arguing that an idea or action will lead inevitably to unrealistically steeper and steeper consequences

Slippery Slope

400

Literally "against the man" -- Attacking the character of a person by providing irrelevant negative information

Ad Hominem

500

Establishing only two opposing positions or points when more might be available or when the opposing positions are not mutually exclusive

False Dichotomy

500

Literally "it does not follow" Drawing conclusions that are unrelated or do not follow logically from the premises

Non sequitur

500

Literally "after this, therefore because of this" Assuming that sequence equals consequence

Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

500

Arguing a position based on the real or imagined origin, history, or source of the idea

Genetic Fallacy

500

Assuming that a set shares characteristics with a given member of a set (the reverse of division fallacy) 

Composition

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