Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Latin for 'to the man', where someone personally attacks the arguer rather than the substance of their argument. | Ad hominem | 78%
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Example: "You don't know what you're talking about because you're stupid." | Ad hominem | 78%
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Example: "We should spend less money on weapons." "So you want to leave use defenseless?" | Strawman | 67%
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Covertly replacing an opponent's argument with a different proposition, and then to refute or defeat that false argument instead of the original proposition. | Strawman | 67%
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Example: "If we legalise gay marriage then people will start marrying lamps, and then chairs, and then there'll be a nuclear holocaust." | Slippery slope | 55%
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Also called a 'Camel's nose', where one thing will lead to another, much more serious thing. | Slippery slope | 55%
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Example: "Dr Stu Pidd published a study that proves that breathing kills you, therefore breathing should be banned." | Cherry picking | 37%
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Selective use of only small or a few snippets of evidence or things that look like evidence to reinforce an argument, perhaps even in the face of contrary evidence. | Cherry picking | 37%
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Fallacy that reinterprets evidence in order to prevent the refutation of one's position. | No true Scotsman | 35%
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Example: "You're not a feminist because a real feminist wouldn't say that." | No true Scotsman | 35%
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Where the options presented are limited (and/or mutually exclusive), and reasonable alternatives are omitted. | False dichotomy | 32%
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When differences in data are ignored, but similarities are stressed, named after a joke where a Texan shoots a wall, and then paints a target where most bullet holes are closest together. | Texas sharpshooter fallacy | 30%
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Making a rhetorical statement that assumes the truth of the assertion you're attempting to prove. | Begging the Question | 28%
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Example: "If you're so smart then what am I thinking right now?" | Begging the Question | 28%
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A logical fallacy in which one reaches an unwarranted conclusion without considering all the facts. | Hasty Generalization | 20%
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Example: "If you are not with me then you are against me." | False dichotomy | 18%
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When someone concludes that an event causes another simply because it happened first | Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc | 18%
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Example: "The cows we lying down when it was raining. Cows can control the weather." | Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc | 18%
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Also know as the Bandwagon fallacy, which appeals to peer pressure or popular opinion rather than evidence. | Ad Populum | 17%
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Example: "All the cool kids at school smoke and I wanted to be cool so I started smoking." | Ad Populum | 17%
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Example: "All elephants are pink; Nelly is an elephant. Nelly is pink." | Affirming the consequent | 15%
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If P, then Q; Q. Therefore, P. | Affirming the consequent | 15%
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Example: "This year it was hotter than last year, therefore global warming accelerating rapidly". | Hasty Generalization | 15%
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Example: "2 wrongs don't make a right, but 3 lefts do." | Equivocation | 13%
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The misleading use of a term with more than one meaning or sense by glossing over which meaning is intended at a particular time. | Equivocation | 13%
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Example: "Sugar is unhealthy; Diet Coke has no sugar. Diet Coke is healthy." | Denying the antecedent | 10%
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If P, then Q. Not P. Therefore, not Q. | Denying the antecedent | 10%
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A self-evident truth that requires no proof and is therefore not questioned, or possibly even questionable. | Axiom | 8%
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Idea by Nicholas Shackel (2005), where an arguer makes broad statements in one scenario, and then retreats to a highly defensible position when challenged. Named after a medieval structure. | Motte and Bailey | 8%
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The interpretation of specific shapes or sounds in random stimuli. | Pareidolia | 8%
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Example: "You would think that because you're racist." | Bulverism | 7%
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C.S. Lewis' concept: "Assume that your opponent is wrong, and explain his error" | Bulverism | 7%
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The human tendency to interpret meaningful patterns within random data. | Apophenia | 3%
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Claiming that something may be true for one person, but not for someone else | Relativist fallacy | 2%
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Example: "I will either fly or ruin that family's picnic." | Postdiction | 0%
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A result of hindsight bias. It happens when someone claims they predicted an event after it occurred, i,e, "retroactive clairvoyance." | Postdiction | 0%
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