Fallacies Flashcards
Ad Hominem (Personal Attack)
Attacking a person for a character trait, rather than the quality or soundness of their argument
Appeal to misplaced authority
Someone claims a certain conclusion is true because someone else, who is not an authority on the subject, says its true
Bandwagon (Majority of people with support)
Trying to prove a conclusion based on the argument that many or most other believe its true
Red Herring
Ignoring the question at hand and adding irrelevant information
Begging the question (circular reasoning)
Providing a premise that is also your conclusion
-re wording your idea without adding new logic
False Dilemma
Assuming there are only 2 choices/outcomes when there are actually several others
Hasting generalization
Making a claim about a large population using a small unrepresentative sample
False Cause
Incorrectly assuming one event causes another