Logical Fallacies

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Bandwagon Appeal

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

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Slippery Slope

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A fallacy that argues that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant effect.

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Red Herring

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

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Straw Man

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

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Correlation vs. Causation (Faulty Causation/Post Hoc)

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

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Hasty Generalization

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

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Ad Hominem

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A fallacy that attacks the person making an argument rather than the argument itself.

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Appeal to False Authority

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A fallacy that occurs when someone accepts a truth on the basis of someone else's authority, without proper evidence.

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Either/Or Fallacy

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

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Faulty Analogy

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