Logical Fallacies — McGroarty’s enjoyable listing

Logical Fallacies (compiled by Brian McGroarty)

Ad Hominem: This is the very best logical fallacy, and when you disagree with me, nicely, you suck.

Appeal to False Authority: Your logical fallacies aren’t logical fallacies in any respect as a result of Einstein mentioned so. Einstein additionally mentioned that this one is best.

Appeal to Emotion: See, my mother, she needed to work three jobs on account of my dad leaving and refusing to assist us, and me with my elephantitis and all, all our cash went to physician’s payments so I by no means was in a position to get correct education. So actually, when you look deep down inside your self, you’ll see that my fallacy right here is the very best.

Appeal to Fear: If you don’t settle for Appeal to Fear as the best fallacy, then THE TERRORISTS WILL HAVE WON. Do you need that in your conscience—that THE TERRORISTS WILL HAVE WON since you had been a pansy who didn’t actually suppose that Appeal to Fear was price voting for, and also you needed to vote for one thing else? Of course not, and neither would the folks you let die as a result of THE TERRORISTS WILL HAVE WON.

Appeal to Force: If you don’t agree that Appeal to Force is the best logical fallacy, I’ll kick your ass.

Appeal to Majority: Most folks suppose that this fallacy is the very best, so clearly it’s.

Appeal to Novelty: The Appeal to Novelty’s a brand new fallacy, and it blows all of your crappy outdated fallacies out the water! All the cool children are utilizing it: it’s OBVIOUSLY the very best.

Appeal to Numbers: Millions suppose that this fallacy is the very best, so clearly it’s.

Appeal to Tradition: We’ve used Appeal to Tradition for hundreds of years: how can it presumably be fallacious?

Argumentum Ad Nauseam:
Argumentum advert nauseam is the very best logical fallacy.
Argumentum advert nauseam is the very best logical fallacy.
Argumentum advert nauseam is the very best logical fallacy.
Argumentum advert nauseam is the very best logical fallacy.
Argumentum advert nauseam is the very best logical fallacy.
Argumentum advert nauseam is the very best logical fallacy.
Argumentum advert nauseam is the very best logical fallacy.

Begging the Question:
Circular reasoning is the very best fallacy and is able to proving something.
Since it could actually show something, it could actually clearly show the above assertion.
Since it could actually show the primary assertion, it have to be true.
Therefore, round reasoning is the very best fallacy and is able to proving something.

Burden Of Proof: Can you show that Burden of Proof isn’t the very best logical fallacy?

Complex Question: Have you stopped beating your spouse and saying Complex Question isn’t the very best fallacy?

False Dilemma: I’ve discovered that both you suppose False Dilemma is the very best fallacy, otherwise you’re a terrorist.

False Premise: All of the opposite fallacies are first rate, however clearly not the very best as they didn’t come from my extremely massive and attractive mind.

Gambler’s Fallacy: In all of the earlier talks about this topic, Gambler’s Fallacy gained, so I simply know the Gambler’s Fallacy goes to win this time!

Guilt by Association: You know who else most well-liked these different logical fallacies? *(insert photos of Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot right here)*

Non Sequitur: Non Sequitur is the very best fallacy as a result of none of my meals to this point at the moment have concerned asparagus.

Post Hoc/False Cause: Since I’ve began presuming that correlation equals causation, violent crime has gone down 54%.

Red Herring: They say that to show your fallacy is the very best requires extraordinary proof, as a result of it’s a unprecedented declare. Well, I’d like to notice that “Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence” is itself a unprecedented declare.

Relativism: Well possibly all these different fallacies are the very best for you, however to me, the relativist fallacy is the best logical fallacy ever.

Slippery Slope: If you don’t like Slippery Slope arguments, you’ll do poorly at school, drop out of faculty, commit crimes, go to jail, and die of AIDS.

Special Pleading: I do know that everybody is posting about their favourite fallacies, however Special Pleading is out-and-out the very best, so it ought to simply win with no contest.

Related: My eight-lecture course on Logic, which incorporates two lectures on fallacies and cognitive biases Trailer and Syllabus here.