Logical Fallacies Flashcards
1
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Vulnerabilities
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Faulty/incorrect evidence
2
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Red herrings
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Skips to a new/irrelevant topic
3
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Hominem fallacies
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Switching from topic to the character of the person
4
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Faulty Analogies
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Irrelevant similarities between 2 topic
5
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Straw Man Fallacies
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Poor/oversimplified example in order to ridicule/refute the other persons argument
6
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Either or fallacies
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False dilemma, 2 extreme choices
7
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Hasty generalization
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Not enough evidence to support your claim, generalizing a topic
8
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Circular reasoning
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Repeating the claim as evidence, resulting in no evidence
9
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Post Hoc fallacies
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Incorrect to claim that something is a cause because it happened earlier
10
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Appeal to false authority
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When someone with no expiration is given authority on a topic
11
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Bandwagon appeal
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Everyone is doing it so It must be good
12
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