Fallacies

Instead of addresing someone's argument you irrelevantly atack the person or some aspect of the person/ Atacking the person

This is:

• Appeal to ignorance

• Ad Hominem

• Strawman

• False Dilemma

When you accept without proper support for his or her alleged authority, a person's claim or proposition as true

Is:

• Appeal to authority

• False Dilemma

• Faulty analogy

• Appeal to ignorance

In attempting to refute another's persons argument, you address only a weak or distorted version of it

(missrepresentation of another person)

This is:

• Post Hoc Ego Propter Hoc

• Faulty analogy

• Appeal to authority

• Strawman

When you reason from an either-or position and you haven't considered all relevant posibilities

Ex: America: Love it or leave it

• Circular Argument

• Appeal to ignorance

• False dilemma

• Faulty analoy

Assuming that because two things are alike in one or more respects, they are necessarily a like in some other respect.

Ex: To say humans are inmortal is like saying a car can run forever.

• Faulty Analogy

• Circular Argument

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

• False Dilemma

An argument's premises assume the truth of the conclusion, instead of supporting it.

Ex: "Why didn'y you include Lorena's poetry in the student publication?"

"Because it was judged as not sufficiently worthy of publication"

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

• Circular Argument

• Faulty Analogy

• Appeal To Ignorance

Not because something happened a way it means that it is going to happened again and the same way

Ex: In 1999 we suffered catastrophic floods, that same year, santos was champion. We are suffering floods this year, that means santos is going to be champion again.

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

• False Dilemma

• Appeal To Ignorance

• Circular Argument

When you argue that your conclusion must be true, because there is no evidence against it.

Ex: I thought I had every reason to think I was doing fine leading the group, no one complained.

• Appeal To Authority

• Circular Argument

• Appeal To Ignorance

• Faulty Analogy

Example:

Socrates arguments about human excellence are rubbish. What could a mas as ugly as he knew about human excellence.

• False Dilemma

• Appeal to authority

• Ad Hominem

• Strawman

Example:

Roberto said he preffered pizza than chinese, so because he hates chinesese and there is not pizza, let's order pizza.

• False Dilemma

• Strawman

• Ad hominem

• Appeal to authority