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Ad Homenim |
Instead of responding to the person's position, they attack the person giving the argument. |
Against the man |
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Straw Man |
Attacking a position that is superficially similar to the argument presented, but has critical differences. |
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Tu Quoque |
Avoiding a criticism of your own argument by bringing up a criticism of your opponent's argument. |
You too |
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Genetic Fallacy |
The origin of an idea is not itself relevant to assessing the merits of the idea. Pertains less to individuals and more to broader ideas and concepts. |
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Appeal to Consequences |
X has bad consequences, therefore X is false. The bad consequences of an idea are relevant to how we act on that idea, but not to whether or not that idea is true. |
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Appeal to Authority |
To have knowledge in the world today, we must depend on experts. The question is, is the authority you're appealing to an expert on that topic? |
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Conceptual Slippery Slope |
This fallacy consists of saying that, just because there's no significant difference between some small things, there's no difference between different ends of the spectrum. |
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Causal Slippery Slope |
This is a formal probabilistic fallacy. Even if each part is highly probable, it doesn't follow that the end result is highly probable. We have to think of these as probabilistic, not guaranteed. |
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