Logical fallacies
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11 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Red herring | This is a diversionary tactic that avoids the key issues, often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them |
| False analogy | Claims comparison between two things when differences outweigh similarities |
| Straw man | A person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitites a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position |
| Slippery slope | A person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question |
| Bandwagon | Arguments that appeal to the growing popularity of an idea as a reason for accepting it as true |
| Ad homenim | Directly attacks someone's appearance, personal habits, or character rather than focusing on the merit of the issue at hand |
| Ad populum | "to the crowd" a misconception that a widespread occurrence of something is assumed to make an idea true or right |
| Hasty generalization | This is a conclusion based on insufficient or biased evidence |
| Post hoc | This is a conclusion that assumes this if 'A' occurred after 'B' then 'B' must have been caused by 'A' |
| Begging the question | The conclusion that the writer should prove is validated within the claim |
| Either-Or / false dilemma | Asserts that a complet situation can have only two possible outcomes, and that one of the options is necessary or preferable |
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