Chart of Common Informal Fallacies
This table presents 10 common informal fallacies and contrasts each of them with a related form of good reasoning. In an informal fallacy, something other than the weight of the evidence pushes you to accept a conclusion. The table illustrates each fallacy by showing you what it uses instead of good evidence.
Topics
- ad hominem
- appeal to fear
- appeal to force
- appeal to ignorance
- appeal to the crowd
- appeal to unqualified authority
- argument
- bad argument
- conclusion
- evidence
- fallacies of irrelevant evidence
- fallacies of weak evidence
- fallacious reasoning
- fallacy
- false cause
- good argument
- good reasoning
- hasty generalization
- high school
- irrelevant evidence
- persuasion
- premises
- reasoning
- scientific reasoning
- slippery slope
- strawman
- weak evidence