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 Over-generalization | The students at Yale are a bunch of thieves. I was on a ski trip with some Yale students and my wallet was stolen. |
| Bad Sample | What do you mean your wedding cake was bad? I gave you samples to try before you even ordered it? |
| Fallacy of Composition | This new car features the finest engine, axle, electrical system, and chassis. It must be the best car on the market. |
| Fallacy of Division | Beth must be an excellent chef. She graduated from Le Cordon Bleu. |
| Fallacy of Negative Proof | No "rational explanation" has ever been offered to explain away the results of Voodoo. Many eyewitnesses recount first hand experience with trances, zombies, and curses. The effects of Voodoo must be real. |
| Fallacy of False Consequences | Vote for Smith or pay high taxes. |
| Complex Question | Did you stop beating your wife? |
| Slippery Slope (Chain Reaction) | We cannot legalize marijuana. Marijuana is known as a "gateway" drug, which means marijuana users will eventually use harder drugs like heroin or crack cocaine. If all of our youth start smoking crack cocaine, our entire society will crumble. |
| Coincidence (post hoc ergo prompter hoc) | Television causes obesity. Americans are twice as likely to be fat today as they were in 1945. |
| Shared Cause | Your fever is causing you to break out in a rash. |
| Insignificant Cause | Using hairspray is causing a hole in the ozone layer. |
| Multiple Causation | His heart attack was caused by eating too much red meat |
| Reversed Causation | I drank more because I was losing my job. |
| Appeal To Sympathy | You have to give me a passing grade. I spent 150 hours on that project and missed every party this quarter. |
| Appeal To Force | If you don't agree to sign the labor agreement, we'll fire you. |
| Appeal To Consequence | Evolution cannot be true. If it were true, we'd all be smelly apes. |
| Appeal To Popularity | Everyone knows that Japanese DVD players are the best. After all, the outshell American players two to one. |
| Loaded Language | Smart mothers buy Ploopis peanut butter. |
| Ad Hominem Attack | Boris is not qualifiedto make suggestions about our penal system. As an exconvict, he would always take the criminals' side. |
| False Analogy | Running the government is like running a business. You can't keep running into debt and expect to be successful. |
| Red Herring | We must eliminate affirmative action. We can't rely on laws to end racial prejudice. |