The Fallacy Files

by VM44 6 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  VM44

  Today I found this website, The Fallacy Files.

  http://www.fallacyfiles.org/index.html

  It has an alphabetical listing of all sorts of logical fallacies, with a writeup for each one.

  Very interesting reading.

  --VM44

  The index for the website:

  A

  Abstraction Accent Accident Affirmation of the Consequent Affirmative Conclusion from a Negative Premiss Affirming a Disjunct/ Affirming One Disjunct Affirming the Consequent Alternative Syllogism, Fallacy of the Ambiguity Ambiguous Middle Amphiboly/ Amphibology Argument by Consensus

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  Appeal to/
  Argument from...

  Authority Consequences Envy Fear Force Hatred Ignorance Pity Popularity Pride

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  Argumentum ad...

  Baculum Consequentiam Hominem Ignorantiam Invidiam Logicam Metum Misericordiam Nazium Odium Populum Superbium Verecundiam

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  Asserting an Alternative Asserting the Consequent Authority of the Many

  B

  Bad Company Fallacy Bad Reasons Fallacy Bandwagon Fallacy Beard, Argument of the/Fallacy of the Begging the Question Biased Sample Bifurcation Black-and-White Fallacy Black-or-White Fallacy

  C

  Card Stacking Circular Argument Circulus in Probando Commutation of Conditionals The Company that You Keep Fallacy Complex Question Composition Consequent, Fallacy of the Converse Accident Converting a Conditional Cum Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

  D

  Denial of the Antecedent Denying a Conjunct Denying the Antecedent Dicto Simpliciter Disjunctive Syllogism, Fallacy of the Division Doublespeak

  E

  Either/Or Fallacy Emotional Appeal Equivocation Exclusive Premisses Existential Fallacy/Existential Assumption, Fallacy of

  F

  Fake Precision Fallacist's/Fallacy Fallacy

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  False...

  Analogy Cause Conversion Dilemma Precision

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  Faulty Analogy Formal Fallacy Four-Term Fallacy

  G

  Gambler's Fallacy Genetic Fallacy Guilt by Association

  H

  Hasty Generalization Hitler Card

  I

  Ignoratio Elenchi Ignoring the Counterevidence

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  Illicit...

  Conversion Major Minor Negative/ Affirmative Process Process of the Major Process of the Minor Quantifier Shift Substitution of Identicals

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  Improper...

  Disjunctive Syllogism Transposition

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  Informal Fallacy Ipse Dixit Irrelevant Thesis

  JK
  L

  Loaded?

  Language/Words Question

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  Logical Fallacy

  M

  Many Questions Masked Man Fallacy Misplaced Precision Monte Carlo Fallacy

  N

  Negating Antecedent and Consequent Negative Conclusion from Affirmative Premisses Non Causa Pro Causa

  O

  One-Sided Assessment One-Sidedness

  P

  Personal Attack Petitio Principii Plurium Interrogationum Poisoning the Well Post Hoc Propositional Fallacy

  Q

  Quantificational Fallacy Quantifier Shift Quaternio Terminorum

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  Question-Begging?

  Analogy Epithets

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  Questionable Analogy Quoting Out of Context

  R

  Red Herring Regression/Regressive Fallacy

  S

  Scope Fallacy Slanting Slippery Slope Some Are/Some Are Not Special Pleading Spurious Accuracy Straw Man Suppressed Evidence Sweeping Generalization Syllogistic Fallacy

  T

  Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy Transposition, Improper Tu Quoque Two Negative Premisses Two Wrongs Make a Right

  U

  Undistributed Middle Unrepresentative Sample Unwarranted Contrast

  V

  Vagueness Vicious Circle Volvo Fallacy

  W

  Weak Analogy Wishful Thinking

  XYZ
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  blondie

  Thanks, VM. I feel like I'm at Baskin Robbins and can't pick one flavor.

  Blondie
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  avengers

  Here's one for flavor and favor.

  Favored most by the notorious big bro's at HQ.

  Q: Bro's, don't you think it's unreasonable to tell the R & F not to associate with the Wild Beast, yet yourself do associate?

  A: We needed a library-card. There's nothing wrong with that.

  Red Herring

  Alias:

  • Ignoratio Elenchi ("ignorance of refutation", Latin)
    

  • Irrelevant Thesis

  Type: Informal Fallacy

  Etymology:

  The name of this fallacy comes from the sport of fox hunting in which a dried, smoked herring, which is red in color, is dragged across the trail of the fox to throw the hounds off the scent. Thus, a "red herring" argument is one which distracts the audience from the issue in question through the introduction of some irrelevancy. This frequently occurs during debates when there is an at least implicit topic, yet it is easy to lose track of it. By extension, it applies to any argument in which the premisses are logically irrelevant to the conclusion.
  

  Exposition:

  This is the most general fallacy of irrelevance. Any argument in which the premisses are logically unrelated to the conclusion commits this fallacy.
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  Bubbamar

  I like this quote from the site:

  "Hasty conclusion like toy balloon: easy blow up, easy pop."

  Source: Charlie Chan at the Race Track

  Not so easy sweep under rug. (esp. since internet!)
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  Brummie

  Veeery good, thx for the link.
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  Fe2O3Girl

  This topic deserves a bump.

  For anyone interested in developing logical arguments, as opposed to flinging generalised insults, this:

  http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/

  covers similar material.
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  VM44

  Farkel has gotten me interested again in logical thinking.

  Discovered that I found this good website about Fallacies 6 years ago, and that it is still online.

  Check it out.