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1278:-related article is a
1195:Psychologist's fallacy
1132:Argument to moderation
1122:Argument from anecdote
1072:Chronological snobbery
696:Quoting out of context
663:Overwhelming exception
546:Suppressed correlative
446:Quoting out of context
321:quantificational logic
295:Denying the antecedent
1158:The Four Great Errors
1138:Argumentum ad populum
1127:Argument from silence
831:Argumentum ad baculum
609:Faulty generalization
300:Argument from fallacy
100:Argumentum ad lapidem
34:argumentum ad nauseam
1176:Invincible ignorance
982:Reductio ad Stalinum
968:Reductio ad Hitlerum
924:Wisdom of repugnance
691:Moving the goalposts
556:Illicit transference
481:Begging the question
402:Undistributed middle
310:Mathematical fallacy
285:Affirming a disjunct
193:Philosophy in Action
1334:Relevance fallacies
909:Parade of horribles
885:In-group favoritism
711:Syntactic ambiguity
354:Syllogistic fallacy
277:propositional logic
39:appeal to authority
1329:Informal fallacies
995:Poisoning the well
812:Proof by assertion
787:Texas sharpshooter
721:Questionable cause
658:Slothful induction
617:Anecdotal evidence
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372:Exclusive premises
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329:Existential
129:On Bullshit
45:fallacies.
1323:Categories
1276:philosophy
1181:Moralistic
1115:Sealioning
1109:Ad nauseam
1036:Ipse dixit
948:Ad hominem
772:Regression
574:Ecological
387:Four terms
305:Masked man
198:2017-02-17
147:References
122:Ipse dixit
58:filibuster
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1100:Arguments
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1063:Tradition
1053:Etymology
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1006:Tu quoque
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