Logical Fallacies

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What is a Slippery Slope fallacy?

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A logical fallacy that suggests that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant impact, often negative.

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What is a Bandwagon fallacy?

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A logical fallacy that suggests that one should do something because everyone else is doing it.

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What is a Hasty Generalization fallacy?

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A logical fallacy in which a conclusion is not logically justified by sufficient or unbiased evidence.

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What is an Ad Hominem fallacy?

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A logical fallacy that involves attacking the character or motive of a person making an argument rather than the argument itself.

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What is a False Cause fallacy?

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A logical fallacy that assumes that because two events occur together, one must cause the other.

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What is an Either/Or fallacy?

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A logical fallacy that presents two options as the only possibilities, when in fact more options may exist.

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What is a Red Herring fallacy?

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A logical fallacy that introduces an irrelevant topic to divert attention from the original issue.

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What is a Straw Man fallacy?

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A logical fallacy that misrepresents an opponent's argument to make it easier to attack.

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What is a False Analogy fallacy?

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A logical fallacy that occurs when an analogy is drawn between two objects or ideas that are not truly comparable.

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What is the principle of Non Sequitur?

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A logical fallacy where the conclusion does not logically follow from the premises.