DESCRIPTION OF INTERACTIVE

Relevance.

Ad Hominem. (Personal Attack. Instead of arguing against the content of an individual’s ideas, you attack her or his character, making your response personal or insulting.)

Bandwagon Fallacy. (An argument is only appealing because of its growing popularity.)

Irrelevant Appeals. (An attempt to persuade with irrelevant information.)

Moralistic Fallacy. (Fallacy of assumption that the world is as it should be. The conclusion expresses what is, based only on what one believes ought to be.)

Naturalistic Fallacy. (Fallacy regarding how the world is. Bases assumptions on social norms and doesn’t question that a situation could, or should, be different.)

Red Herring. (Uses irrelevant information or other techniques to distract from the argument.)

Fallacy of Division. (Relating whole to part and part to whole. When one reasons logically that something true for the whole must also be true of all or some of its parts.)

Gambler’s Fallacy. (Regarding short term deviations and probability. An individual erroneously believes that the onset of a certain random event is less likely to happen following an event or a series of events.)

Genetic Fallacy. (Acceptance or rejection of concepts based on source as opposed to merit.)

Ambiguity.

Accent Fallacies. (Based on stress of word or word parts - occurs when the meaning of a text is changed by what word or words are stressed, changing the intent of a sentence.)

Equivocation Fallacy. (Also known as “doublethink.” Words are used multiple times with different meanings.)

Straw Man Fallacy. (Misrepresentation in order to make argument look weak.)

Presumption.

Arguing from Ignorance. (An argument is inferred to be true simply because it is not known to be false.)

Begging the Question/Circular Reasoning. (Conclusion is among the argument’s premises.)

Complex Question Fallacy. (Involves a questionable assumption.)

Cum Hoc Fallacy. (Poorly assumed correlation of two things.)

False Dilemma / Bifurcation Fallacy. (Requiring a choice between only two choices when another is available.)

Hasty Generalisation Fallacy. (Uses only one, abnormal situation.)

"No True Scotsman" Fallacy. (Reinterpretation of evidence.)

Post Hoc Fallacy. (Assumption of cause and effect.)

Slippery Slope Fallacy. (False assumption of consequences of action.)

Sweeping Generalisation Fallacy. (Too broad of an application of a premise.)

Subjectivist Fallacy. (Lack of questioning of premises.)

Tu Quoque Fallacy. (Argument based on the concept that “someone else did it so I can.”)