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Logical Fallacies 1
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You misrepresented someone's argument to make it easier to attack.
What is a strawman?
100
You said this lies not with the person making the claim, but with someone else to disprove.
What is the burden of proof?
100
You used a double meaning or ambiguity of language to mislead or misrepresent the truth.
What is ambiguity?
100
You avoided having to engage with criticism by turning it back on the accuser--you answered criticism with criticism.
What is tu quoque?
100
You judged something as either good or bad on the basis of where it comes from, or from whom it came.
What is genetic fallacy?
200
You argued that because something is 'natural' it is therefore valid, justified, inevitable, good or ideal.
What is an appeal to nature?
200
You moved the goalposts or made up an exception when your claim was shown to be false.
What is special pleading?
200
You cherry-picked a data cluster to suit your argument, or found a pattern to fit a presumption.
What is the Texas Sharpshooter?
200
You made what could be called an appeal to purity as a way to dismiss relevant criticisms or flaws of your argument.
What is no true scotsman?
200
You claimed that a compromise between 2 extremes must be the truth.
What is the middle ground?
300
A serious flaw in reasoning and constructing arguments.
What is a logical fallacy?
300
You presented two alternatives states as the only possibilities, when in fact more possibilities exist.
What is black-or-white?
300
Because you found something difficult to understand, or unaware of how it works, you make out like it's probably not true.
What is personal incredulity?
300
You used a personal experience or an isolated example instead of a sound argument or compelling evidence.
What is anecdotal?
300
You presented a circular argument in which the conclusion was included in the premise.
What is begging the question?
400
You asked a question that had a presumption built into it so that it couldn't be answered without appearing guilty.
What is a loaded question?
400
You said that 'runs' occur to statistically independent phenomena such as roulette wheel spins.
What is the gambler's fallacy?
400
You appealed to popularity or the fact that many people do something as an attempted form of validation.
What is the bandwagon?
400
You said that because an important person thinks something, it must therefore be true.
What is the appeal to authority?
400
You assumed that one part of something has to be applied to all, or other, parts of it; or that the whole must apply to its parts.
What is the fallacy of composition/division?
500
You attempted to manipulate an emotional response in place of a valid or compelling argument.
What is appeal to emotion?
500
You said that if we allow A to happen, then Z will eventually happen, too, therefore A should not happen
What is slippery slope?
500
You presumed that because a claim has been poorly argued, or a fallacy has been made, that the claim itself must be wrong.
What is the fallacy fallacy?
500
You attacked your opponent's character or personal traits in an attempt to undermine their argument.
What is ad hominem?
500
You presumed that a real or perceived relationship between things means that one is the cause of the other.
What is false cause?