Table of Fallacy Categories

Click on the class name for a list of fallacies in that class. Click on each fallacy to see an explanation of that fallacy, a couple of pithy examples, a discussion of why we sometimes find that fallacy to be persuasive, and a source indicating who first described and/or named the fallacy, if such an original source can be identified.



Deductive Fallacies Inductive Fallacies Retroductive Fallacies

Fallacies of Soundness

Major Premiss Fallacies

Irrelevancies Errors in Observation and
Inductive Ambiguities
False Cause Fallacies

Minor Premiss Fallacies

Misrepresentations and
Deductive Ambiguities
Errors in Sampling False Report Fallacies
 
Fallacies of Circularity
 





Circular Justifications Circular Evidence Circular Explanations

 

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