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Fallacies and bad arguments[edit]

List of fallacies
Misleading vividness
Appeal to probability
Argument from fallacy
Base rate fallacy
Conjunction fallacy
Masked man fallacy
Affirming a disjunct
Affirming the consequent
Denying the antecedent
Existential fallacy
Syllogistic fallacy
Syllogism
Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise
Fallacy of exclusive premises
Fallacy of four terms
Illicit major
Illicit minor
Negative conclusion from affirmative premises
Fallacy of the undistributed middle
Argumentum ad lapidem
Argument from ignorance
Ad nauseam
Argument from silence
Argument to moderation
Ad hominem
Ergo decedo
Begging the question
Philosophic burden of proof
Circular reasoning
Correlation does not imply causation
Continuum fallacy
Correlative-based fallacies
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Suppressed correlative
Equivocation
Ecological fallacy
Etymological fallacy
Accent (fallacy)
Fallacy of composition
Fallacy of division
False attribution
Fallacy of quoting out of context
Argument from authority
False dilemma
False equivalence
Loaded question
Fallacy of the single cause
Furtive fallacy
Gambler's fallacy
Historian's fallacy
Presentism (literary and historical analysis)
Homunculus argument
If-by-whiskey
Incomplete comparison
Inconsistent comparison
Authorial intent
Ignoratio elenchi
Kettle logic
Ludic fallacy
Moral high ground
Moralistic fallacy
Moving the goalposts
Naturalistic fallacy
Nirvana fallacy
Proof by assertion
Proof by intimidation
Duane Gish
Prosecutor's fallacy
Proving too much
Psychologist's fallacy
Red herring
Direct reference theory
Regression fallacy
Reification (fallacy)
Retrospective determinism
Special pleading
Wrong direction
Faulty generalization
Accident (fallacy)
No true Scotsman
Cherry picking
Survivorship bias
Argument from analogy
Hasty generalization
Overwhelming exception
Cliché
Poisoning the well
Vacuous truth
Appeal to accomplishment
Appeal to consequences
Appeal to emotion
Appeal to fear
Appeal to flattery
Appeal to ridicule
Appeal to pity
Appeal to spite
Wishful thinking
Appeal to motive
Appeal to nature
Appeal to novelty
Argumentum ad lazarum
Appeal to tradition
Argumentum ad crumenam
Argumentum ad baculum
Argumentum ad populum
Association fallacy
Bulverism
Chronological snobbery
Genetic fallacy
Judgmental language
Pooh-pooh
Straw man
Texas sharpshooter fallacy
Tu quoque
Two wrongs make a right
Parable of the broken window
Definist fallacy
Slippery slope