Informal Fallacy

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 Informal Fallacy 

What is it?

The notion of Informal fallacy refers to the logical fallacy in which it targets the argument and resoning towards  its content and context rather than its form.

Informal fallacies include 

-Not a Cause for a Cause (Slippery Slope)

-Red Herring

            Straw Man

           Arguments from Consequences

        Genetic Fallacy

                  Appeal to Irrelevant Authority

                  Ad Homlenem

                                     Appeal to Hypocrisy

        Appeal to the Bandwagon

        Guilt by Association

        Emotional Appeal

                Appeal to Fear

-Begging the Question Fallacy (Circular Reasoning)

-Unwaranted Assumption (Composition and Division)

-Weak Analogy

        Unrepresentative Sample

                    Hasty Generalisation

-Fallacy of missing data

        Appeal to Ignorance

-Ambiguity

          Equivocation

        Equivocation-Redefinition

                No True Scotsman

-Cause Fallacy

         Not a Cause for a Cause

-Unwarranted Assumption

            False Dilemma

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