Definitions
From Hunting the Snark
Many of these entries are redirects to a single page, because many fallacies are so old, they have picked up several names along the way. Should you happen on a term you don't know, it may be something you are familiar with under a different name. This list is all the different names of argument terminology and fallacies I could find. Any fallacy with multiple names will be redirected to a single definition with the "alias" listed for that term.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
- accent fallacy - informal
- accident fallacy - informal
- ad antiquitatem - informal
- ad hominem fallacy - informal
- affirmative conclusion fallacy - formal
- affirmative proposition
- affirming the alternative fallacy - formal
- affirming the consequent fallacy - formal
- amazing Familiarity fallacy - informal
- ambiguity
- ambiguous assertion fallacy - informal
- amphiboly fallacy - informal
- analysis
- appeal to age fallacy - informal
- appeal to anonymous authority fallacy - informal
- appeal to authority fallacy - informal
- appeal to belief fallacy - informal
- appeal to coincidence fallacy - informal
- appeal to common practice fallacy - informal
- appeal to complexity fallacy - informal
- appeal to consequences of belief fallacy - informal
- appeal to emotion fallacy - informal
- appeal to false authority
- appeal to fear fallacy - informal
- appeal to flattery - informal
- appeal to force fallacy - informal
- appeal to ignorance fallacy - informal
- appeal to novelty fallacy - informal
- appeal to pity fallacy - informal
- appeal to popularity fallacy - informal
- appeal to poverty fallacy - informal
- appeal to ridicule fallacy - informal
- appeal to spite fallacy - informal
- appeal to the people fallacy - informal
- appeal to popular opinion - informal
- appeal to tradition fallacy - informal
- appeal to widespread belief fallacy - informal
- argument
- argument by bafflement fallacy - informal
- argument by demanding impossible perfection fallacy - informal
- argument by doggedness fallacy - informal
- argument by emotive language fallacy - informal
- argument by fast talking fallacy - informal
- argument by generalization fallacy - informal
- argument by gibberish fallacy - informal
- argument by half truth fallacy - informal
- argument by laziness fallacy - informal
- argument by personal charm fallacy - informal
- argument by pigheadedness fallacy - informal
- argument by poetic language fallacy - informal
- argument by prestigious jargon fallacy - informal
- argument by question fallacy - informal
- argument by repetition fallacy - informal
- argument by rhetorical question fallacy - informal
- argument by scenario fallacy - informal
- argument by selective observation fallacy - informal
- argument by selective reading fallacy - informal
- argument by slogan fallacy - informal
- argument by uninformed opinion fallacy - informal
- argument form
- argument from adverse consequences fallacy - informal
- argument from age fallacy - informal
- argument from authority fallacy - informal
- argument from design fallacy - informal
- argument from false authority fallacy - informal
- argument from small numbers fallacy - informal
- argument from spurious similarity fallacy - informal
- argument to the beard - informal
- argument to the future fallacy - informal
- argumentum ad antiquitatem fallacy - informal
- argumentum ad baculum fallacy - informal
- argumentum ad hominem fallacy - informal
- argumentum ad ignoratiam fallacy - informal
- argumentum ad misericordiam fallacy - informal
- argumentum ad nauseam fallacy - informal
- argumentum ad negantem fallacy - informal
- argumentum ad numerum fallacy - informal
- argumentum ad petitio principii fallacy - informal
- argumentum ad populum fallacy - informal
- argumentum ad traditio fallacy - informal
- argumentum ad verecundiam fallacy - informal
- Aristotelian logic
- assuming the answer fallacy - informal
- assumption
- attribute
- axiom
B
- bad analogy fallacy - informal
- bandwagon fallacy - informal
- begging the question fallacy - informal
- belief
- biased sample fallacy - informal
- bifurcation fallacy - informal
- bivalent logic
- burden of proof fallacy - informal
C
- camel’s nose fallacy - informal
- categorical logic
- categorical proposition
- categorical syllogism
- categorical term
- category
- category mistake
- changing the subject fallacy - informal
- circular definition
- circular fallacy - informal
- circulus in demonstrando fallacy - informal
- class
- cliche thinking fallacy - informal
- common sense fallacy - informal
- complex question fallacy - informal
- composition fallacy - formal
- composition fallacy - informal
- conclusion
- conditional
- conditional syllogism
- confusing cause and effect fallacy - informal
- confusing correlation and causation fallacy - informal
- conjunction / Conj.
- conjunction compound statement
- consistency
- constant
- continuum fallacy - informal
- contradiction
- contradictories
- converse accident fallacy - informal
- converting conditional fallacy - formal
- counter-example
- counterfactual
- crucial experiment fallacy - informal
D
- deduction
- deductive argument
- definition
- denying the antecedent
- destroying the exception - informal
- dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid - informal
- Digression fallacy - informal
- dilemma
- diminished claim fallacy - informal
- disproof by fallacy fallacy - informal
- division fallacy - formal
E
- efficient cause
- emanation
- empirical
- equivalence
- equivocation fallacy - informal
- error of fact fallacy - informal
- esse est percipi
- euphemism fallacy - informal
- evidence
- exception that proves the rule fallacy - informal
- excluded middle fallacy - informal
- exclusive premises
- existential fallacy
- extended analogy fallacy - informal
- extension fallacy - informal
F
- fact
- failure to assert fallacy - informal
- failure to state fallacy - informal
- fallacy of the beard - informal
- fallacy of many questions - informal
- fallacy of origins - informal
- fallacy of prosody - informal
- fallacy of virtue - informal
- false
- false cause fallacy - informal
- false compromise fallacy - informal
- false dichotomy fallacy - informal
- false dilemma fallacy - informal
- false emphasis fallacy - informal
- falsifiability
- faulty dilemma fallacy - informal
- formal fallacy
G
- gambler’s fallacy
- general rule fallacy - informal
- genetic fallacy - informal
- guilt by association fallacy - informal
H
- hasty generalization fallacy - informal
- having your cake fallacy - informal
- hypothesis
- hypothesis contrary to fact fallacy - informal
- hypothetical imperative
- hypothetical syllogism fallacy - informal
I
- idea
- ignoring a common cause fallacy - informal
- illicit major
- illicit minor
- indirect proof
- induction
- inductive argument
- inference
- informal fallacy
- ingnorantio elenchi
- intuition
- invalid
- irony
- irrelevant conclusion fallacy - informal
J
K
L
- law of parsimony
- least plausible hypothesis fallacy - informal
- lies fallacy - informal
- logic
- loaded question fallacy - informal
- logical form
- logical symbols
M
- major premise
- major term
- material cause
- meaning
- meaningless questions fallacy - informal
- method of difference fallacy - informal
- method of doubt
- Method of Residues
- middle ground fallacy - informal
- middle term
- mind reading fallacy - informal
- minor premise
- minor term
- misdirection fallacy - informal
- misleading vividness fallacy - informal
- modal logic
- moving the goalposts fallacy - informal
N
- naturalistic fallacy - informal
- necessary
- negation
- negative proposition
- non causa pro causa fallacy - informal
- non sequitur
- normative ethics
- not invented here fallacy - informal
O
P
- paradigm
- petitio principii fallacy - formal
- pious fraud fallacy - informal
- poisioning the well fallacy - informal
- post hoc fallacy - informal
- post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy - informal
- postulate
- premise
- presupposition
- proof
- proposition
Q
R
- raising the bar fallacy - informal
- reason
- recursive
- red herring fallacy - informal
- reductio ad absurdum - informal
- reductive fallacy - informal
- relativist fallacy - informal
S
- scare tactics fallacy - informal
- self-evident
- semantics
- simpliciter
- sine qua non
- singular proposition
- slippery slope - informal
- sound
- special pleading fallacy - informal
- spotlight fallacy
- stacking the deck fallacy - informal
- statement
- stolen concept fallacy - informal
- straw man fallacy - informal
- subjective
- suppressed evidence fallacy - informal
- syllogism
- symbolic logic
T
- tautology
- tautology fallacy - informal
- teleological argument
- theoretical definition
- theoretical knowledge
- transcendental argument
- true
- truth
- truth-functional
- truth-table
- truth-value
- tu quoque fallacy - informal
- two wrongs make a right fallacy fallacy - informal