Logical Fallacies

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What are logical fallacies?

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Logical fallacies are mistaken beliefs/ideas, invalid arguments, illogical arguments, and/or deceptiveness that make an argument weak.

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What is an Ad Hominem fallacy?

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Attacking one’s character rather than the issue.
An insult does not evaluate the quality of an argument.

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What is an Appeal to False Authority?

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Using a source quote from someone who is not an expert in the field.

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What is the Bandwagon Fallacy?

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When evidence merely says that the reasoning is because others do a certain activity or like a certain thing without providing solid evidence.

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What is Begging the Question/Circular Reasoning?

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Using a definition as supporting evidence (repeating information instead of using reasoning)

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What is the Either/Or Fallacy?

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Reducing complex arguments to simply right/wrong, ignoring other possible sides.

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What is a Faulty Analogy?

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Comparing things that are similar in some ways, but not where it matters most.

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What is Faulty Causality?

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Drawing the conclusion that when two events happen close together one has caused the other.

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What is a Hasty Generalization?

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Making a claim based on one or two examples that may not be relevant to the claims or subject.

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What is a Slippery Slope argument?

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Arguments that proclaim that one incident will start a chain of events leading to devastating results, often exaggerated and inaccurate.