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BEGGING THE QUESTION
(Missing the point) The truth of the conclusion is assumed by the premises.
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AD HOMINEM
"To the man" in Latin. An attempt to link the validity of a premise to a characteristic or belief of the person advocating the premise.
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STRAW MAN
(Missing the point). The author attacks an argument different from (and weaker than) the opposition's best argument.
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POST HOC ERGO PROPTER HOC
(Causal fallacy). Because one thing follows another, it is held to cause the other.
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HASTY GENERALIZATION
(Inductive fallacy). The sample is too small to support an inductive generalization about a population.
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OVERSIMPLIFICATION
(Causation fallacy). Occurs when it is assumed that there is a single, simple cause of an outcome when in reality it may have been caused by a number of only jointly sufficient cases.
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NON-SEQUITUR
"It does not follow"-- in Latin. An argument in which its conclusion does not follow from its premises.
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EQUIVOCATION
(Ambiguity fallacy). The same term is used with two different meanings.
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FALSE ANALOGY
(Inductive fallacy). The two objects or events being compared are relevantly dissimilar.
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FALSE DICHOTOMY
(Distraction fallacy). Two choices are given when in fact there are three options.
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POISONING THE WELL
Advers information about a target is preemptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that the target person is about to say.
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