Two types of fallacies are formal and informal.

Which type of fallacy contains an error in structure?

All formal fallacies are non sequiturs, which means that the conclusion is not supported by what preceded it.

Ad Hominem is latin for

An abusive attack against someone making the argument, instead of the argument itself, is called a/an

“He’s not a great athlete; he’s a fraud, a cheat and a liar. That’s why not everybody is ‘happy for Lance.'”

An irrelevant topic introduced in an argument to divert the attention of listeners or readers from the original issue is called a/an

When someone attacks a distorted version of the original argument that they have themselves created is called a/an

Person 1: I think pollution from humans contributes to climate change.

Person 2: So, you think humans are directly responsible for extreme weather, like hurricanes, and have caused the droughts in the southwestern U.S.? If that’s the case, maybe we just need to go to the southwest and perform a “rain dance.”

Using a celebrity endorsement is typically an appeal to false authority.

Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist and perhaps the foremost expert in the field, says that evolution is true. Therefore, it's true.

A seemingly unimportant event is suggested to lead to a more significant event, which leads to an even more significant event, and so on...

If we let our child out of his room, eventually he will want to leave the house, and will end up on the street. If he is walking around on the street then he will be snatched up by a stranger and sold into slavery in a remote region on the World.

Bandwagon fallacy, which is especially common in the world of advertising, is based on the assumption that

A fallacy based on the assumption that a statement must be true if it cannot be proven false — or false if it cannot be proven true.

Only two choices are presented as the only possibilities when, in fact, there are other alternatives.

Person 1: You’re either for the war or against the troops.

Person 2: Actually, I do not want our troops sent into a dangerous war.

If someone draws a conclusion based on a small sample size, they are making a

"I have already paid a consultant $1000 to look into the pros and cons of starting that new business division. He advised that I shouldn’t move forward with it because it is a declining market. However, if I don’t move forward, that $1000 would have been wasted, so I better move forward anyway."