Examples to Fallacy
Alex: your argument contained a strawman, so you're wrong. Bob: it's wrong of you to assume that my argument is wrong just because it contains a fallacy, so that means that you're wrong, and my original argument was right.
Fallacy Fallacy
Called the appeal to common belief or appeal to the masses because it’s all about getting people to do or think something because “everyone else is doing it” or “everything else thinks this.”
Bandwagon Fallacy
Appeal to Nature
a rhetorical technique for presenting and proposing the argument that “a thing is good because it is ‘natural’, or bad because it is ‘unnatural’.”
Bandwagon
Everyone is going to get the new smart phone when it comes out this weekend.
Slippery Slope
if I don't pass tomorrow's exam, this might affect my GPA, which in turn might impact my chances of going to a good college.
Either you support the new tax plan or you are against helping the poor.
Black and White Fallacy
Logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with.
Circular Reasoning Fallacy
Begging the question
An argument's premises assume the truth of the conclusion, instead of supporting it.
Ad Hominem
Corry's is arguing that if Perpino is an unethical brand then consumers should pick Corry's.
Herbal medicine is natural, so it's good for you.
Appeal to Nature
Citing your cousin who is a law student in a discussion about a legal issue.
Authority Fallacy
A personal attack on a person rather than the argument.
Ad Hominem Fallacy
False comparison
an informal fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed or false reasoning.
False Comparison
That a knife and dynamite are both tools that can be used as weapons, so they're pretty much the same thing.
an informal fallacy which is committed when differences in data are ignored, but similarities are overemphasized.
Texas Sharpshooter
Marijuana should be illegal because it is dangerous, and it is illegal because it is dangerous.
Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
Informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction.
Strawman Fallacy
Begging the Question
an argument's premises assume the truth of the conclusion, instead of supporting it.
Moving the Goal Post
Bob: If evolution is real, then show me an example of evolution occurring right now. Suzy: Sure. Just look at the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available.
Black and White Fallacy
Son: "Wow, Dad, it's really hard to make a living on my salary." Father: "Consider yourself lucky, son. Why, when I was your age, I only made $40 a week."
Red Herring
An informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect an a-posteriori claim from a falsifying counterexample by covertly modifying the initial claim.
No True Scotsman
Non Sequitur
a pattern of reasoning rendered invalid by a flaw in its logical structure that can neatly be expressed in a standard logic system, for example propositional logic.
Strawman
if someone says they love the color blue and someone else argues that red is better, asserting that the first person obviously hates the color red, this would be a straw man argument.
Red Herring
diverting attention from the real issue by focusing instead on an issue having only a surface relevance to the first.