[[Literacy]] | NAME | DESCRIPTION | | -------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Ad Hominem | Insulting opposition without argument. | | Ad Lapidem (Appeal to the stone) | Saying no without an argument. | | Fallacy Fallacy | Calling out fallacies without argument. | | Tu Quoque (Appeal to Hypocrisy) | Calling out hypocrisy, example being "You say this game is bad, but you don't make any." Such an argument makes no sense. | | Possibiliter Ergo Probabiliter | Claiming that something is likely so it must be true. | | False Dilemma | Claiming something is either this or that, despite it being a gradient or there being more possiblilities. | | Straw man | Misrepresenting argument to make it easier to counter, example being "You dislike pedophiles? Are you saying disciplining children is bad?" | | Cherry Picking | Picks out specific parts of evidence that supports their claim despite there being tons of other evidence that go against it. | | Proof by Assertion | Reiterating argument without new evidence. | | Non Sequitur | A statement that does not follow the logical flow of the previous. | | Bandwagon | Belief that claim is right because tons of people do it. | | Slippery Slope | Claiming one minor step will lead to major consequences. | | | |