Logical Fallacy

Red Herring

When someone is avoiding the question and asserting something irrelevant, we say they are introducing a red herring into the argument. A red herring is, literally, a distracting smell.

Ad Hominem Attack

To attack the person making an argument instead of the argument itself

Genetic fallacy

Another personal attack fallacy. It does not attack the person that made the argument but the place where the argument came from.

Tu Quoque

Dismissing someones viewpoint on an issue because he himself is inconsistent in that very thing

Faulty appeal to authority

An appeal to someone who has no special knowledge in the area being discussed.

Appeal to people

When we claim that our viewpoint is correct because many other people agree with it.

Straw Man

Changing or exaggerating an opponents position or argument to make it easier to refute.