Falcies

Question 1

The sample size is to small

Answer 1

Hasty generalization

Question 2

Drawing conclusions based only on evidence at hand with no proof

Answer 2

Circumstantial evidence

Question 3

Mistakes in statistics or implications

Answer 3

Playing with numbers

Question 4

Assuming what your trying to prove

Answer 4

Begging the Question

Question 5

Avoiding answering a question you have no good answer do

Answer 5

Ignoring the question

Question 6

Assuming that of two related things one causes the other

Answer 6

Mistaken causality

Question 7

Comparing two things that shouldn’t be comapared

Answer 7

False analogy

Question 8

Priming or predisposing an audenicne to dislike or think badly of someone

Answer 8

Poising the well

Question 9

Using two or one words with different meanings as thought they are the same

Answer 9

Equivocation

Question 10

Assuming history of outcomes affects the future of outcomes

Answer 10

Gamblers fallacy

Question 11

Using evidence from an unarmed or gauge source as proof

Answer 11

Appeal to anybody’s authority

Question 12

Claiming true because it is commonly done

“everyone’s doing it”

Answer 12

Appeal to common practice

Question 13

Thinking something’s better because it cost more

Answer 13

Appeal to money

Question 14

Claiming something must be false because it has not been proven true

Answer 14

Appeal to Ignorance

Question 15

Thinking that because something sounds unbelievable it must not be true

Answer 15

Appeal to incredulity

Question 16

Assuming something is better because it is new

Answer 16

Appeals to novelty

Question 17

Assuming something is true because it has always been done that way or because it is older

Answer 17

Appeal to tradition

Question 18

Assuming. Something is true because majority people believe it

Answer 18

Appeal to popular belief

Question 19

Assuming something could be true it is true or will eventually be true

Answer 19

Appeal to probability

Question 20

Claiming something is false or true because strongly hope it is so

Answer 20

Appeal to wishful thinking

Question 21

Relating on an unfounded compliment to get people to accept your claim

Answer 21

Appeal to flattery

Question 22

Purposelyfully making you opponents argument look silly

Answer 22

Appeal to ridicule

Question 23

Assuming an argument is wrong because because the one making it does not live up to it

Answer 23

Appeal to hypocrisy

Question 24

Associating argument with Hitler

Answer 24

Reduction ad Hitlerum

Question 25

Introducing anirrelevant topic to divert attention from original issue

Answer 25

Red herring

Question 26

Asking a question that if directly answered would imply shared agreement

Answer 26

Loaded question

Question 27

Arguing that a change will result in inevibltr domino affect

Answer 27

Slippery slope

Question 28

Twisting an opponents argument and then attacking he twisted version

Answer 28

Straw man

Question 29

Assuming the truth must lie sowehrre between two opposing argument

Answer 29

Middle ground

Question 30

Assuming there are only two choices when there are more

Answer 30

False delemia

Question 31

Only using data that supports your position and ignoring data the contradicted

Answer 31

Cherry picking

Question 32

Assuming because of fairness that something wrong is justified

Answer 32

Two wrongs make a right