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A list of fallacious arguments:

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  • Ad Hominem (Argument To The Man)
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  • Affirming The Consequent
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  • Amazing Familiarity
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  • Ambiguous Assertion
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  • Appeal To Anonymous Authority
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  • Appeal To Authority
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  • Appeal To Coincidence
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  • Appeal To Complexity
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  • Appeal To False Authority
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  • Appeal To Force
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  • Appeal To Pity (Appeal to Sympathy, The Galileo Argument)
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  • Appeal To Widespread Belief (Bandwagon Argument, Peer Pressure, Appeal To Common Practice)
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  • Argument By Emotive Language (Appeal To The People)
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  • Argument By Fast Talking
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  • Argument By Generalization
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  • Argument By Gibberish (Bafflement)
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  • Argument By Half Truth (Suppressed Evidence)
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  • Argument By Laziness (Argument By Uninformed Opinion)
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  • Argument By Personal Charm
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  • Argument By Pigheadedness (Doggedness)
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  • Argument By Poetic Language
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  • Argument By Prestigious Jargon
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  • Argument By Question
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  • Argument By Repetition (Argument Ad Nauseam)
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  • Argument by Rhetorical Question
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  • Argument By Scenario
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  • Argument By Selective Observation
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  • Argument By Selective Reading
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  • Argument By Slogan
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  • Argument From Adverse Consequences (Appeal To Fear, Scare Tactics)
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  • Argument From Age (Wisdom of the Ancients)
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  • Argument From Authority
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  • Argument From False Authority
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  • Argument From Small Numbers
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  • Argument From Spurious Similarity
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  • Argument Of The Beard
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  • Argument To The Future
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  • Bad Analogy
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  • Begging The Question (Assuming The Answer, Tautology)
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  • Burden Of Proof
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  • Causal Reductionism (Complex Cause)
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  • Changing The Subject (Digression, Red Herring, Misdirection, False Emphasis)
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  • Cliche Thinking
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  • Common Sense
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  • Complex Question (Tying)
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  • Confusing Correlation And Causation
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  • Disproof By Fallacy
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  • Equivocation
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  • Error Of Fact
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  • Euphemism
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  • Exception That Proves The Rule
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  • Excluded Middle (False Dichotomy, Faulty Dilemma, Bifurcation)
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  • Extended Analogy
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  • Failure To State
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  • Fallacy Of Composition
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  • Fallacy Of Division
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  • Fallacy Of The General Rule
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  • Fallacy Of The Crucial Experiment
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  • False Cause
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  • False Compromise
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  • Genetic Fallacy (Fallacy of Origins, Fallacy of Virtue)
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  • Having Your Cake (Failure To Assert, or Diminished Claim)
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  • Hypothesis Contrary To Fact
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  • Inconsistency
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  • Inflation Of Conflict
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  • Internal Contradiction
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  • Least Plausible Hypothesis
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  • Lies
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  • Meaningless Questions
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  • Misunderstanding The Nature Of Statistics
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  • Moving The Goalposts (Raising The Bar, Argument By Demanding Impossible Perfection)
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  • Needling
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  • Non Sequitur
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  • Not Invented Here
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  • Outdated Information
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  • Pious Fraud
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  • Poisoning The Wells
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  • Psychogenetic Fallacy
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  • Reductio Ad Absurdum
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  • Reductive Fallacy (Oversimplification)
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  • Reifying
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  • Short Term Versus Long Term
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  • Slippery Slope Fallacy (Camel's Nose)
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  • Special Pleading (Stacking The Deck)
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  • Statement Of Conversion
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  • Stolen Concept
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  • Straw Man (Fallacy Of Extension)
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  • Two Wrongs Make A Right (Tu Quoque, You Too)
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  • Weasel Wording

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