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"How can you argue for vegetarianism when you wear leather shoes?"
Ad Hominem (Argument To The Man)
"Famous physicist John Taylor studied Uri Geller extensively and found no evidence of trickery or fraud in his feats."
Appeal To Inappropriate Authority
"I did not murder my mother and father with an axe! Please don't find me guilty; I'm suffering enough through being an orphan."
Appeal To Pity (Appeal to Sympathy, The Galileo Argument):
"Minds, like rivers, can be broad. The broader the river, the shallower it is. Therefore, the broader the mind, the shallower it is."
Faulty Analogy
"Do you support freedom and the right to bear arms?"

unrelated points are treated as if they should be accepted or rejected together. In fact, each point should be accepted or rejected on its own merits
Complex Question (Tying)
"Allowing abortion in the first week of pregnancy would lead to allowing it in the ninth month."
Slippery Slope Fallacy (Camel's Nose)
"The sign said 'fine for parking here', and since it was fine, I parked there." Or "Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that three lefts do."
Equivocation
using a word to mean one thing, and then later using it to mean something different. For example, sometimes "Free software" costs nothing, and sometimes it is without restrictions.
Equivocation
"A car makes less pollution than a bus. Therefore, cars are less of a pollution problem than buses."
Fallacy Of Composition:
"Atoms are colorless. Cats are made of atoms, so cats are colorless."
Fallacy Of Composition
human beings are made of atoms, and human beings are conscious, so atoms must be conscious.
Fallacy Of Division:
assuming that what is true of the whole is true of each constituent part
Fallacy Of Division:
This is the fallacy of refuting a caricatured or extreme version of somebody's argument, rather than the actual argument they've made. Often this fallacy involves putting words into somebody's mouth by saying they've made arguments they haven't actually made
Straw Man
"The opposition claims that welfare dependency leads to higher crime rates -- but how are poor people supposed to keep a roof over their heads without our help?"
Red herring
introducing irrelevant facts or arguments to distract from the question at hand.
Red herring