What's the Word?
This is the science of right thinking.
What is logic?
This translates to "to the source" or "to the fountain".
What is ad fontem?
This fallacy seeks to convince others of a belief or course of action by suggesting their view is the popular one.
What is ad populum?
These arguments overextend a generalization to include facts or cases that are exceptions to it.
What are sweeping generalizations?
These fallacies are in the subgroup ad fontem.
What are ad hominem, genetic fallacy, and tu quoque?
Errors in reasoning due to unrelated information or points.
What are fallacies of relevance?
This translates to "to the man" or "against the man".
What is ad hominem?
This fallacy tries to make us do something because we pity him or we pity something associated with him.
What is ad misericordiam?
These arguments use numbers or statistics in a way that is too precise to be justified by the situation.
What is false precision?
These fallacies are in the subgroup faulty appeal to emotions.
An error in logic.
What is a logical fallacy?
This this translates to "you too" or "you also".
What is tu quoque?
This is an appeal to our desire to feel that we’re better than everyone else in some way; an emotional appeal to a sense of elitism or to those of “discriminating taste.”
What is snob appeal?
This is an argument that makes an unwarranted generalization on the basis of too few samples.
What are hasty generalizations?
These fallacies are in the subgroup red herring.
What are straw man and appeal to ignorance
Arguments with hidden assumptions that make the arguments unreasonable.
What are fallacies of presupposition?
This translates to "stick" or "club".
What is ad baculum?
These are arguments that distract by making the audience want to either be part of an old tradition or part of the latest cool, new thing.
What is appeal to chronology?
These arguments fail because they create an analogy between two things that are not similar enough to warrant an analogy
What are false analogies?
These fallacies are in the subgroup fallacies of presupposition.
What are false dilemma, is-ought, fallacy of moderation, part-to-whole, and whole-to-part?
When it wouldn't be socially appropriate, when neither person has any real knowledge about the subject, or when one of the persons involved is angry or not thinking clearly.
What are three times it would be dumb to argue?
This translates to "after this, therefore because of this".
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc.
These arguments are based on a weak cause-and–effect connection.
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc?
What are sweeping generalization, hasty generalization, false analogy, post hoc ergo propter hoc, and false precision?