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Common fallacies (list)
Formal
In propositional logic
  • Affirming a disjunct
  • Affirming the consequent
  • Denying the antecedent
  • Argument from fallacy
  • Masked man
  • Mathematical fallacy
In quantificational logic
  • Existential
  • Illicit conversion
  • Proof by example
  • Quantifier shift
Syllogistic fallacy
  • Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise
  • Negative conclusion from affirmative premises
  • Exclusive premises
  • Existential
  • Necessity
  • Four terms
  • Illicit major
  • Illicit minor
  • Undistributed middle
Informal
Equivocation
  • Equivocation
  • False equivalence
  • False attribution
  • Moral equivalence
  • Quoting out of context
  • Loki's Wager
  • No true Scotsman
  • Reification
    • Map–territory relation
Question-begging
  • Circular reasoning / Begging the question
  • Loaded language
    • Leading question
  • Compound question / Loaded question / Complex question
  • No true Scotsman
Correlative-based
  • False dilemma
    • Perfect solution
  • Denying the correlative
  • Suppressed correlative
Illicit transference
  • Composition
  • Division
  • Ecological
Secundum quid
  • Accident
  • Converse accident
Faulty generalization
  • Anecdotal evidence
  • Sampling bias
    • Cherry picking
    • McNamara
  • Base rate / Conjunction
  • Double counting
  • False analogy
  • Slothful induction
  • Overwhelming exception
Ambiguity
  • Accent
  • False precision
  • Moving the goalposts
  • Quoting out of context
  • Slippery slope
  • Sorites paradox
  • Syntactic ambiguity
Questionable cause
  • Animistic
    • Furtive
  • Correlation implies causation
    • Cum hoc
    • Post hoc
  • Gambler's
    • Inverse
  • Regression
  • Single cause
  • Slippery slope
  • Texas sharpshooter
Appeals
  • Law/Legality
  • Stone / Proof by assertion
Consequences
  • Argumentum ad baculum
  • Wishful thinking
Emotion
  • Children
  • Fear
  • Flattery
  • Novelty
  • Pity
  • Ridicule
  • In-group favoritism
  • Invented here / Not invented here
  • Island mentality
  • Loyalty
  • Parade of horribles
  • Spite
  • Stirring symbols
  • Wisdom of repugnance
Genetic fallacy
Ad hominem
  • Appeal to motive
  • Association
    • Reductio ad Hitlerum
    • Reductio ad Stalinum
  • Bulverism
  • Poisoning the well
  • Tone
  • Tu quoque
  • Whataboutism
  • Authority
    • Accomplishment
    • Ipse dixit
    • Poverty / Wealth
  • Etymology
  • Nature
  • Tradition / Novelty
    • Chronological snobbery
Other fallacies
of relevance
Arguments
  • Ad nauseam
    • Sealioning
  • Argument from anecdote
  • Argument from silence
  • Argument to moderation
  • Argumentum ad populum
  • Cliché
  • The Four Great Errors
  • I'm entitled to my opinion
  • Ignoratio elenchi
  • Invincible ignorance
  • Moralistic / Naturalistic
  • Motte-and-bailey fallacy
  • Psychologist's fallacy
  • Rationalization
  • Red herring
    • Two wrongs make a right
  • Special pleading
  • Straw man
  • Category
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