Logical Fallacies

Rejecting an argument based on a person's habits, personality, morals, or character. Talking bad about the person without addressing the argument.

• red herring

• bandwagon

• double standard

• ad hominem

Introducing an irrelevant topic to distract from the actual argument

• slippery slope

• ad hominem

• red herring

• straw man

Arguing that something is true simply because most people believe it

• bandwagon

• appeal to authority

• begging the claim

• hasty generalization

Arguing that one action will definitely lead to something drastically worse, without sufficient evidence

• correlation no causation

• slippery slope

• bandwagon

• double standard

Ignoring a person's actual position and substituting a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position.

• begging the claim

• red herring

• straw man

• correlation no causation

making a claim about a large population based on very little evidence

• double standard

• ad hominem

• straw man

• hasty generalization

Using loaded language to push ideas instead of proving them.

• appeal to authority

• begging the claim

• red herring

• bandwagon

The belief that an argument is true because it is made by someone perceived to have authority.

• ad hominem

• straw man

• slippery slope

• appeal to authority

Judging situations by different standards instead of using the same standards for all

• correlation no causation

• bandwagon

• double standard

• begging the claim

Assuming that because two things happened, one caused the other.

• slippery slope

• straw man

• correlation no causation

• appeal to authority