logical

a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute

• ad hominem

• ad populum

• circular reasoning

• inductive reasoning

occurs when evidence boils down to "everybody's doing it, so it must be a good thing to do"

• diatribe

• ad populum

• hasty generalization

• ad hominem

a fallacy in whic the writer repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence

• loaded question

• appositive

• circular reasoning

• straw man

reasoning from premise to conclusion that does not logically follow

• illogical reasoning fallacy

• deductive reasoning fallacy

• inductive reasoning fallacy

• Faulty reasoning fallacy

reasoning from evidence to conclusion that does not logically follow

• reductive reasoning fallacy

• deductive reasoning fallacy

• empirical reasoning fallacy

• inductive reasoning fallacy

a bitter and prolonged verbal attack

• rant

• diatribe

• post hoc ergo propter hoc

• passive aggressive reasoning

setting up a situation in which no matter what the person does or answers, they are wrong

• Concession

• double bind

• Reality

• double blind

the claiming that a compromise, or middle point, between two extremes must be the truth

• red herring

• grounds

• litote

• gerund

speaker jumps to a general conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence

• hasty generalization

• non sequitur

• diatribe

• non-linear reasoning

a fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion

• strawman fallacy

• loaded question

• red herring

• blue pershing