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Logical Fallacies are errors or flaws in reasoning. Although essentially unsound, fallacious arguments seem superficially plausible and have great persuasive power. Fallacies are not necessarily deliberate attempts to decieve readers. Writers may introduce a fallacy accidentally by not examining their own reasons or underlying assumptions critically. Here is a summary of the most common logical fallacies (Listed Alphabetically).
-Begging the question: Arguing a claim is true by repeating the claim in different words (sometimes called circular reasoning).
-Confusing chronology with casuality: Assuming that because one thing proceeded another, the former caused the latter (also called post hoc, ergo propter hoc).
-Either-or reasoning: Assuming that there are only two sides to a question and representing yours as the only correct one.
-Equivocating: Misleading or hedging with ambiguous word choices.
-Failing to accept the burden of proof: Asserting a claim without presenting a reasoned argument to support it.
-False analogy: Assuming because one thing resembles another, conclusions drawn from one can also apply to the other.
-Hasty generalization: Offering only weak or limited evidence to support a conclusion.
-Overreliance on authority: Assuming that an authority is true simply because an expert says so and ignoring evidence to the contrary.
-Oversimplifying: Giving easy answers to complicated questions, often by appealing to emotions rather than logic.
-Slanting: Selecting or emphasizing the evidence that supports your claim and suppressing or playing down other evidence.
-Slippery slope: Pretending that one thing inevitably leads to another.
-Sob story: Manipulating readers' emotions to lead them to draw unjustified conclusions.
-Straw man: Directing the argument against a claim nobody actually makes, or agrees that is very weak.
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