1. Some questions to consider:

2. What is an argument, and what are the roles of the premises and conclusion in an argument? (Something that many people miss regarding argumentation is that all arguments are inferences, but some arguments are complex and have more than one inference in them. An inference is not something you can see or to which you can point in an argument. It is, instead, the intellectual move that you make from premises to a conclusion. An inference, then, is a process of reasoning.)

3. Common fallacies in reasoning (see also the chapter on argument forms)

4. Begging the Question (its fancy name is petitio principii) = circular argumentation

5. Equivocation

6. Appeal to ignorance

7. Stereotyping

8. Hasty Generalization

9. Post hoc ergo propter hoc (an easier name is "false cause")

10. Ad hominem

11. Appeal to authority (this has a more snazzy name, too: argumentum ad vericundiam)

12. Slippery Slope (this one is the "domino effect")

Traditional and Sentence Logic

• Some notes on argumentation - casting arguments
• Structure Diagrams to Clarify Thinking
• Informal Fallacies