Critical Thinking Fallacies

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  • Created on: 02-04-13 10:47
What is the Ad Hoc Fallacy?
Answering a specific objection, instead of the whole argument
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What is the Anecdotal Evidence fallacy?
Discounting proven evidence in favour of a few first hand stories
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What is the Post Hoc fallacy?
A preceded B, therefore A caused B
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What is the 'Begging the question' fallacy?
When someone assumes a conclusion in their question/reasoning
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What is the 'Equivocation' fallacy?
A term's meaning is switched during the reasoning
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What is the 'Slippery Slope' fallacy?
The argument that a position is not consistent because accepting it means you must also accept the extreme
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What is the 'Ad Hominem' fallacy?
Where the person, not the argument is attacked
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What is the 'Tu quoque' fallacy?
Justifying a wrong action because someone else does it too
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What is the 'False Dichotomy' fallacy?
Where someone is presented with purposefully limited options
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What is the 'Straw man' fallacy?
Countering a position by attacking a more easily defendable position
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What is the Anecdotal Evidence fallacy?

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What is the Post Hoc fallacy?

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What is the 'Begging the question' fallacy?

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What is the 'Equivocation' fallacy?

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