A List Of Fallacious Arguments
"The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time."
--- Richard Nixon
Several of these have names in Latin, but I mostly ignored that and used English.
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Ad Hominem (Argument To The Man)
Affirming The Consequent
Amazing Familiarity
Ambiguous Assertion
Appeal To Anonymous Authority
Appeal To Authority
Appeal To Coincidence
Appeal To Complexity
Appeal To False Authority
Appeal To Force
Appeal To Pity (Appeal to Sympathy, The Galileo Argument)
Appeal To Widespread Belief (Bandwagon Argument, Peer Pressure, Appeal To Common Practice)
Argument By Dismissal
Argument By Emotive Language (Appeal To The People)
Argument By Fast Talking
Argument By Generalization
Argument By Gibberish (Bafflement)
Argument By Half Truth (Suppressed Evidence)
Argument By Laziness (Argument By Uninformed Opinion)
Argument By Personal Charm
Argument By Pigheadedness (Doggedness)
Argument By Poetic Language
Argument By Prestigious Jargon
Argument By Question
Argument By Repetition (Argument Ad Nauseam)
Argument by Rhetorical Question
Argument By Scenario
Argument By Selective Observation
Argument By Selective Reading
Argument By Slogan
Argument By Vehemence
Argument From Adverse Consequences (Appeal To Fear, Scare Tactics)
Argument From Age (Wisdom of the Ancients)
Argument From Authority
Argument From False Authority
Argument From Personal Astonishment
Argument From Small Numbers
Argument From Spurious Similarity
2026-04-23 14:28:27
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Jabibi :
honour honourable mention : Genetic fallacy which I've seen be used SO much more recently. anyways good vid as always
2026-04-08 16:16:41
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david :
An appeal to authority is not always fallacious. If you say God does not exist because Einstein says so that would be an appeal to authority because Einstein is not a theologian but is in a position of authority. But if you use someone in a position of authority that is relevant to the dialect such as scholars or experts in their field, it is not fallacious.
2026-04-08 16:21:50
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spookybalmainsss :
HM : fallacy of false equivalence.
2026-04-10 03:11:16
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Sago :
My fave is correlation doesn’t equal causation.
2026-04-09 13:43:26
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Neal :
Red Herring is common as well
2026-05-28 07:21:04
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𝖘𝖎𝖒𝖇𝖔✝ :
is the last one "False dichotomy"?
2026-06-01 21:13:47
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Gregory :
they call me the master debator
2026-04-08 18:27:22
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HigherAndSomeOtherShinanigans :
Well how can you counter someone saying “just because someone says it’s true doesn’t mean it is” to you citing a scientist or (example) an official document of political agreements
2026-05-01 23:18:43
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NateW1991 :
I find that the equivocation fallacy happens a lot and people rarely pick up on it.
2026-04-10 04:32:52
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ㅤ :
appeal to authority is when the said authority is not qualified to speak on the matter. Saying something like “My doctor recommends tylenol so it isn’t harmful.” is not fallacious
2026-04-10 21:57:41
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mango :
anecdotal fallacy is also up there
2026-04-12 11:08:41
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🅰️ :
presentism fallacy is also important, whe you use present time's standards and apply to something that took place a while ago when standards when different
2026-04-12 03:36:41
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𝖌𝖚𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖊 🫠 :
isn’t every normative claim that intends to be true fallacious since morals cannot be treated as facts and they couldn’t be “proven” no matter what?
2026-04-08 18:06:29
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Indian Jones :
Debating requires 3 things: truth(data), logic and integrity
2026-04-13 01:34:18
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Mr.A0r_07 :
Honorable Mention: Anecdotal Fallacy
2026-04-12 12:14:50
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Sukli :
I believe your example constitutes an appeal to irrelevant authority. Appeal to authority = support from expert consensus & ideally empirical data
2026-04-09 01:20:54
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goovee :
big bang theory! the beginning of the universe and it's expansion.
2026-04-09 07:44:43
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Anubis :
Remember the deference between citing sources and the appeal to authority fallacy!
2026-04-09 09:12:13
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Mo Agassi :
Which books can I read to master my debate skills and knowledge?
2026-04-09 07:42:58
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Tristan | Stroke/TBI Recovery :
This is also great for seeing through the “poly-ticks” facade
2026-06-05 18:42:59
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thenillywilly :
so in the third argument you think we just shouldn’t use any outside accredited sources? (my first strawman i’m kind of nervous)
2026-04-26 14:22:16
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timmccarty2 :
don't forget red herrings. Not really a fallacy but it's a tactic.
2026-04-29 13:25:31
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