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Logical : A Beginner’s Guide Which logical would be your favorite pick from the list below?

Ad Hominem Attack: This is the best logical : The Appeal to fallacy, and if you disagree with me, well, Novelty's a new fallacy, and it blows all your you’re an idiot. crappy old fallacies out the water! All the cool kids are using it: it's OBVIOUSLY the best. : See, my mom, she had to work three jobs on account of my dad Appeal To Numbers: Millions think that this leaving and refusing to support us, and me fallacy is the best, so clearly it is. with my elephantitis and all, all our money went to doctor's bills so I never was able to : If you don't agree that get proper schooling. So really, if you look Appeal to Pity is the greatest fallacy, think deep down inside yourself, you'll see that my how it will hurt the feelings of me and the fallacy here is the best. others who like it!

Appeal To False Authority: Your logical : We've used Appeal to fallacies aren't logical fallacies at all because Tradition for centuries: how can it possibly be Einstein said so. Einstein also said that this wrong? one is better. Argumentum : Argumentum : If you don't accept Appeal ad nauseam is the best logical fallacy. to Fear as the greatest fallacy, then THE Argumentum ad nauseam is the best logical TERRORISTS WILL HAVE WON. Do you fallacy. Argumentum ad nauseam is the best want that on your conscience, that THE logical fallacy. Argumentum ad nauseam is TERRORISTS WILL HAVE WON because the best logical fallacy. Argumentum ad you were a pansy who didn't really think that nauseam is the best logical fallacy. Appeal to Fear was worth voting for, and you Argumentum ad nauseam is the best logical wanted to vote for something else? Of course fallacy. Argumentum ad nauseam is the best not, and neither would the people you let die logical fallacy. because THE TERRORISTS WILL HAVE WON. Bandwagon: It's obvious that Bandwagon is going to win as the greatest fallacy. You Appeal to : If you agree with me that wouldn't want to be one of the losers who is the greatest fallacy, it choose something else, would you? shows that you are intelligent and good looking and a snappy dresser. : is the best fallacy and is capable of proving Appeal To Force: If you don't agree that anything. Since it can prove anything, it can Appeal to Force is the greatest logical fallacy, obviously prove the above statement. Since it my two buddies and will simply beat the can prove the first statement, it must be true. stuffing out of you. Therefore, circular reasoning is the best fallacy and is capable of proving anything. Appeal To Majority: Most people think that this fallacy is the best, so clearly it is.

- 1 - Biased Sample: I just did a poll of all the Non Sequitur: Non Sequitur is the best people in the "Biased Sample Fan Club" and fallacy because none of my meals so far today 95% of them agree that Biased Sample the have involved asparagus. best fallacy. Obviously it's going to win. Post Hoc/False Cause: Since I've started Burden Of Proof: Can you prove that presuming that correlation equals causation, Burden of Proof isn't the best logical fallacy? violent crime has gone down 54%.

Complex Question: Have you stopped : They say that to prove your beating your wife and saying Complex fallacy is the best requires extraordinary Question isn't the best fallacy? evidence, because it's an extraordinary claim. Well, I'd like to note that "Extraordinary : I've found that either you claims demand extraordinary evidence" is think False Dilemma is the best fallacy, or itself an extraordinary claim. you're a terrorist. : Well maybe all those other False Premise: All of the other fallacies are fallacies are the best for you, but to me, the decent, but clearly not the best as they didn't is the greatest logical fallacy come from my incredibly large and sexy brain. ever.

Gambler's Fallacy: In all the previous talks : If you don't like Slippery about this subject, Gambler's Fallacy lost, so I Slope , you will do poorly in class, just know the Gambler's Fallacy is going to drop out of school, commit crimes, go to win this time because it's the Gambler's prison, and die of AIDS. Fallacy's turn to win! : I know that everyone is Guilt By Association: You know who else posting about their favorite fallacies, but preferred those other logical fallacies? *(insert Special Pleading is out-and-out the best, so it pictures of Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot here)* should just win with no contest.

XW

Notes from M. E. Kabay:

This document was circulating on the ‘Net in September 2006. It was sent to me by my cousin, Guy Letourneau, PE but I do not know who wrote it. The list in this version is now alphabetized; I fixed several spelling errors, too.

For a more extensive list, see “A List Of Fallacious Arguments” compiled by Don Lindsay at < http://www.don- lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#well >

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