Relevance
Presumption
Clarity
Catechism
Fallacies Not in Our Book Know
100

You can't accept his argument favoring abortion - he's part of the ACLU, which supports abortion!

Ad hominem circumstantial

100

To make a false assumption of some kind is this kind of fallact

Presumption / presupposition

100

Fallacies of clarity...

...Contain words, phrases, or syntax that distort or cloud their meanings.

100

What is logic?

Logic is the art and science of reasoning

100

There is no difference between five o'clock shadow and a full beard. At what length exactly does a beard start? There isn't a specific length. So there's no difference.

Continuum fallacy (demanding precision where precision is not needed)

200

Senator Johnson has no grounds to make any judgments about the president. He is an adulterer himself!

To Quoque

200

I went to a chiropractor and he didn't help me. Chiropractors are bogus.

Hasty generalization.

200
Dogwood isn't lazy, he just likes to sleep all the time.

Distinction without a difference

200

These are inferences in reasoning that are false, and yet so close an imitation of the true, as to deceive not only dull people, but clever men too, when they are not on their guard

Sophisms

200

Grass is green, and toes are body parts, so I am the best runner in the world

Non sequitur

300

Mr. Klein has the most beautiful cat in the world.

No fallacy!

300

I don't care if it would have killed you to try to save that 900 pound man from drowning - Boy Scouts help those in need!

Sweeping Generalization

300

A man is a human with male gametes. A human who calls himself a woman but has male gametes is, therefore, a man.

No fallacy.

300

What is a philosophical definition?

A combination of genus and difference.

300

If it rains, it will be wet. It's wet. So it rained.

Affirming the consequent

400

Hindus don't believe in helping the poor. That's why Hinduism is a religion of callous inhumanity. All one has to do is walk the streets of India to see how little Hindus care about those less fortunate.

Straw Man

400

Every time I let you borrow my car, it breaks down. It never does that for me. I'm sorry, but I can't let you borrow it anymore.

No fallacy!

400

Mom, you said I shouldn't take any cookies. I didn't - I'm eating them right next to the jar!

Accent (not equivocation: equivocation usually has the word used twice in different senses. Here, "take" is only used once)

400

The Church Fathers said this.

“God is rational, and Reason was first in Him; and so all things were from Himself. This Reason is His own Thought which the Greeks call Λόγος.”

400

If you give a child ten dollars, he'll ask you for twenty. Then you'll give him twenty, and he'll ask for forty. So on an so on, until you have given him $10,000. So don't give a child ten dollars.

Slippery Slope

500

As far as I'm concerned, Obamacare is a total failure. There are still people in this country who go without care because they don't have insurance.

Irrelevant goals

500

I know Mussolini's rise to power was brutal, but hey, you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs.

False analogy

500

All created things exist. But God is not a created thing. God does not have existence in the way created things do. So, God does not exist.

Equivocation ("exist"). 

God does not exist in the way we do, but that doesn't not mean he does not exist at all.

500

This is why square triangles are anti-God.

They are illogical, and God is the Logos.

500

If it rains, it will be wet. It didn't rain. So it's not wet.

Denying the antecedent. (Raining isn't the only thing that could make it wet. What if I sprayed a hose around?)

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