Logical Fallacies

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Intended to manipulate public opinion about a particular issue by arousing fear or alarm.

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Scare Tactics

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Lack of contrary evidence. It asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been disproved.

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appeal to ignorance

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The opinion of an authority figure is used as evidence to support the argument.

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Appeal to Authority

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Falsely assuming since Item A and Item B both have Quality X in common, they must also have Quality Y in common.

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Faulty Analogy

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Appeal to purity as a way to dismiss relevant criticisms or flaws of your argument.

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No True Scotsman

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Trick question that has an underlying, unverified assumption.

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Loaded Question

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The assumption that just because one event follows another, the second event is caused by the first event.

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Faulty Causality

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When someone decides to ignore the true argument, create a made up one in order to be easier to defeat said argument.

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Strawman

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Uses phrases with multiple definitions without clarification of which they are using.

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Ambiguity

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A person presumes that because an argument contains a logical fallacy, it leads to the conclusion being false.

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Fallacy Fallacy