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[[Literacy]]
| NAME | DESCRIPTION |
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| 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. |
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