Informal Fallacies

Question 1

Slippery Slope

Answer 1

Cites a negative consequence on insufficient evidence

Question 2

Ad Hominem

Answer 2

Attacks the person

Question 3

Ad Hominem Abusive

Answer 3

Insults the person

Question 4

Ad Hominem Circumstantial

Answer 4

Attacks a circumstantial relation

Question 5

Ad Hominem Tu Quo Que

Answer 5

Hypocritical
“You do it too”

Question 6

Ad Verecundiam

Answer 6

Appeal to authority

Question 7

Petitio Princippi

Answer 7

Assumes the conclusion,
AKA Circular Reasoning, Begging the Question

Question 8

Ad Ignorantiam

Answer 8

Appeals to ignorance
Appeals to unknown as if its evidence

Question 9

Genetic Fallacy

Answer 9

Attacks the origin of the argument

Question 10

Strawman

Answer 10

Misrepresents a view for an easy attack

Question 11

Composition

Answer 11

Whole has prosperities of the part

Question 12

Division

Answer 12

Parts have properties of the whole

Question 13

Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

Answer 13

False Cause

Question 14

Ad Baculum

Answer 14

Appeals to force/threat
“To the Stick

Question 15

Faulty Analogy

Answer 15

A comparison of things with insufficient similarities

Question 16

Ad Populum

Answer 16

Appeals to the majority opinion of the population

Question 17

Ad Antiquitatem

Answer 17

Appeals to tradition

Question 18

Ad Misericordiam

Answer 18

Appeals to pity

Question 19

Red Herring

Answer 19

Diverts attention away from the issue

Question 20

Smokescreen

Answer 20

Multiple red herrings

Question 21

Equivocation

Answer 21

Using two different meanings of a word in the same argument

Question 22

False Dilemma

Answer 22

Implies there are only two alternatives