Deadly Sins

Fallacy: the use of poor reasoning for an argument.

1. False Comparison: two things are similar so they must be the same.
• The all natural fallacy: some natural things are good for you so everything that is natural is good for you.
• The appeal to popularity: other kids get to do it, so why don't I?
• Reduction ad absurdum: compares a logical choice with a ridiculous choice.
• The fallacy of antecedent: false comparison related to time.
• The false analogy: joins two different things and calls them the same. 
• The unit fallacy: does weird math with two different things, often confusing the part for the whole.
2. Bad Example: the example used to prove the argument.
• The hasty generalisation: uses too few examples and interprets them too broadly.
• Misinterpreting the evidence: takes the exception and uses it to prove the rule.
3. Ignorance as Proof: the argument claims that the lack of examples proves that something does not exist.
• The fallacy of ignorance: because something has never been disproved it must be true.
• Superstitions: the belief in supernatural casualty or that one event causes another without them being linked.
4. Tautology: the proof and the conclusion are the same. 
5. False Choice: the number of choices given is not the number of choices that exist. 
• The many questions fallacy: it squeezes two or more issues into a single one.
• The false dilemma fallacy: offers the audience two or more choices when more exist.
6. Red Herring: distracts the audience to make them forget what the main issue is about.
• The straw man fallacy: sets up a different issue that is easier to argue, or more favorable for the other person.
7. Wrong Ending: fails to lead to the conclusion.
• The slippery slope: predicts a dire series of events stemming from a single choice.
• The post hoc ergo propter hoc or the Chanticleer fallacy: assumes that if something follows something else then the first caused the second.

• Another Logical mistake
• The fallacy of power: if the person in charge wants it, it must be good.

• The seven rhetorical out-of-bounds:

1. Switching tenses away from the future.
2. Inflexible insistence on the rules: refusing to hear the other side.
3. Humiliation: seeks to embarras others, or win points for yourself.
4. Innuendo: if you object to it, you look like a fool. An implication or hint, a suggestion.
5. Threats: it denies the audience a choice.
6. Nasty language or signs.
7. Utter stupidity: "Never argue with a fool, people may not know the difference."

Chanticleer fallacy

The fallacy of antecedent

All natural fallacy

The false analogy

Hasty generalisation

Superstitions/Supernatural

The many questions fallacy

The false dilemma fallacy