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Soka University - Economics Department

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Fallacy Index A-Z

Absence of evidence fallacy
^Evidential

Abstraction denial
^Conceptual

Abstraction fallacy
^Conceptual

Ad hominem
^{Tactical/Emotional}

Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise
^Formal

Affirming a disjunct
^Formal

Affirming the consequent
^Formal

All or nothing fallacy
^{Epistemic/Evidential}

Appeal to accomplishment
^{Tactical/Evidential}

Appeal to emotion
^{Tactical/Emotional/Epistemic}

Appeal to authority
^{Emotional/Evidential}

Appeal to consequences
^{Emotional/Evidential}

Appeal to fear
^Emotional

Appeal to flattery
^Emotional

Appeal to motive
^{Emotional/Causal}

Appeal to novelty
^{Emotional/Perspectival/Tactical}

Appeal to pity
^Emotional

Appeal to ridicule
^Emotional

Appeal to spite
^Emotional

Appeal to nature
^{Conceptual/Perspectival}

Appeal to probability
^Mathematical

Appeal to tradition
^{Emotional/Evidential}

Argument from fallacy
^Evidential

Argument from ignorance
^Evidential

Argument from repetition
^Tactical

Argument from silence
^Evidential

Argumentum ad baculum
^{Emotional/Tactical}

Argumentum ad populum
^{Evidential/Conceptual/Epistemic}

Association fallacy
^{Tactical/Evidential/Formal}

Bare assertion fallacy
^{Evidential/Tactical}

Base rate fallacy
^Mathematical

Begging the question
^Formal

Bottom-up condemnation
^{Conceptual/Evidential}

Bottom-up justification
^{Conceptual/Evidential}

Cherry picking
^{Tactical/Evidential}

Chronological snobbery
^{Evidential/Perspectival}

Circular cause and consequence
^{Causal/Evidential}

Composition fallacy
^Conceptual

Confidence as a validator
^{Epistemic/Emotional}

Contextomy
^{Tactical/Linguistic}

Continuum fallacy
^{Conceptual/Linguistic}

Correlation is not causation
^Causal

Demanding a mechanism
^Evidential

Denial of the epistemic gradient
^{Epistemic/Evidential}

Denying a remote hypothetical
^{Evidential/Conceptual}

Denying the antecedent
^Formal

Denying the correlative
^Conceptual

Division fallacy
^Conceptual

Ecological fallacy
^{Mathematical/Conceptual}

Empty refutation
^Tactical

Equivocation
^Linguistic

Etymological fallacy
^Linguistic

Exclusive premises
^Formal

Fallacy of many questions
^Tactical

False analogy
^Conceptual

False compromise
^Conceptual

False dilemma
^Conceptual

False surrender
^Tactical

Faulty generalization
^{Conceptual/Evidential}

For the sake of argument denial
^{Conceptual/Epistemic}

Gambler's fallacy
^{Mathematical/Causal}

Genetic fallacy
^{Linguistic/Conceptual}

Hasty generalization
^{Evidential/Mathematical}

Historian's fallacy
^Perspectival

Homunculus fallacy
^{Conceptual/Perspectival}

Human standard fallacy
^{Conceptual/Perspectival}

Illicit major
^Formal

Imposed disbelief
^{Epistemic/Evidential}

Impotent logical space
^{Evidential/Conceptual}

Incomplete comparison
^Conceptual

Inconsistent comparison
^{Conceptual/Formal}

Intentional fallacy
^{Perspectival/Linguistic}

Is–ought problem
^Conceptual

Linearity fallacy
^{Conceptual/Mathematical}

Mental cause fallacy
^{Evidential/Epistemic}

Moving the goalpost
^{Tactical/Evidential}

Naturalistic fallacy
^{Perceptual/Conceptual/Evidential}

Negative proof fallacy
^Formal

No True Scotsman
^{Conceptual/Linguistic}

Overwhelming exception
^{Linguistic/Conceptual}

Package-deal fallacy
^Conceptual

Perfect solution fallacy
^{Conceptual/Evidential}

Perfect standard
^Conceptual

Perverted analogy
^{Tactical/Conceptual}

Piggy-back assumption
^Evidential

Poisoning the well
^Tactical

Post hoc ergo propter hoc
^Causal

Proof by example
^{Conceptual/Evidential}

Proof by verbosity
^{Tactical/Linguistic}

Psychologist's fallacy
^Perspectival

Red herring
^Tactical

Redeeming illogic with evidence
^Evidential

Regression fallacy
^{Causal/Mathematical}

Reification
^{Conceptual/Linguistic/Perspectival}

Retrospective determinism
^{Causal/Perspectival}

Semantic pixelization
^Linguistic

Sharpshooter fallacy
^{Evidential/Conceptual}

Single cause fallacy
^{Causal/Conceptual}

Slippery slope
^{Causal/Conceptual}

Special pleading
^{Evidential/Conceptual}

Spotlight fallacy
^Conceptual

Square logic
^Formal

Straw man argument
^Tactical

Suppressed correlative
^{Conceptual/Linguistic}

Teleological fallacy
^Conceptual

Thought-terminating cliché
^Tactical

Top-down condemnation
^{Conceptual/Evidential}

Top-down justification
^{Conceptual/Evidential}

Track-record reset
^Evidential

Tu quoque
^{Tactical/Evidential}

Undistributed middle
^Formal

Vague insulators
^Tactical

Wishful thinking
^{Emotional/Epistemic/Evidential}

Witness chain
^{Evidential/Conceptual}

Wrong causal direction
^Causal

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