Logical Fallacies

Ad Hominem

Attacking the person who made the argument, rather than the argument

Slippery Slope

Assuming the worst

Straw man

Taking something to extremes

False dilemma

presents only two mutually exclusive options as the only possibilities, ignoring other alternatives.

Circular reasoning

an argument that comes back to its beginning without having proven anything.

Appeal to authority

Referring to an expert

Hasty Generalization

when a broad conclusion is drawn based on insufficient or unrepresentative evidence

Post Hoc

assumes that because one event came after another, the first event must have caused the second.

No true Scotsman

defending a generalization by arbitrarily redefining a group to exclude counterexamples.

Appeal to Emotion

aims to influence an audience's beliefs or actions by evoking strong feelings

Bandwagon

Every one is doing it, therefore it is what’s best

Appeal to ignorance

proposition is considered true because it hasn't been proven false, or vice versa.

Tu Quoque

Statement is false because it is inconsistent with the speaker

Gambler’s fallacy

belief that the probability of a random event occurring in the future is influenced by its past occurrences

Composition fallacy 

Just because parts have a quality doesn’t mean the whole does