Logical Fallacies

• Ad hominem fallacy - attacking the person making an argument instead of addressing their ideas.
• Strawman fallacy - misrepresenting someone's argument to make it easier to attack.
• Authority fallacy - assuming that someone's opinion is correct because they are considered an expert or have some other form of authority.
• False dichotomy - presenting two options as if there are no others when more exist.
• Non sequitur fallacy - concluding something without any logical connection between premises and conclusion.
• Slippery slope - suggesting that one small action will lead to disastrous consequences.
• Appeal to Tradition


  continuing to do something because it has always been that way in the past
• No True Scotsman 


  an attempt to defend a generalization of a certain group under the premise of not being "pure enough"
• Post Hoc Fallacy


  claiming that correlation equals causation (it's false)
• Hasty Generalization


  basing inferences on a small, unrepresentative sample
• Faulty Analogy


  assuming that two situations that share some similarities are alike in other aspects
• Red Herring 


  attempting to hide a weakness in an argument to divert from the main issue
• Circular Argument

  restating the argument (claim) for the conclusion in different words