Logical Fallacies

Ad Hominem

A personal attack individual instead of the issue at hand

Bandwagon

Urges the audience to accept a position because a majority of people already.

Begging the question (Circular thinking)

Assumes the idea you are trying to prove as being true.

Cause/Effect

Assumes that the effect is related to a cause because the vents occur together.

Either/or thinking (false dilemma)

Implies that one of two negative outcomes is inevitable.

Equivocation

Allows a key word or term in an argument to have different meaning during the course of the argument.

Generalization

Bases an inference on too small a sample as the basis for a broader generalization.

Non Sequitur

Irrelevant reasons are offered to support a claim.

Red herring

Introduces a topic unrelated to the claim

Slippery slope

Assumes a chain reaction of events which result in a terrible outcome.

Straw man

States an opponent’s argument in an exaggerated form, or attacking a weaker, irrelevant portion of an opponent’s argument.