Component Fallacies

Fallacies of Relevance        Component Fallacies          Fallacies of Ambiguity          Fallacies of Omission

• petitio principii (Begging the Question) and circulus in probando (Circular Reasoning)

• dicto simpliciter; secundum quid (Hasty Generalization or "Jumping to Conclusions")

            Two Subcategories:

                        Fallacy of Accident

                        Misleading Statistic

• False Extrapolation

• post hoc; ergo, propter hoc ("False Cause -- "After this, therefore, because of this")

• Red Herring

• tu quoque (Appeal to Hypocrisy)

•  Straw Man

• non sequitur ("Does not follow")

• argumentum ad logicam (The Fallacy Fallacy)

• The "Slippery Slope" Fallacy or The "Camel's Nose" Fallacy 

• The "Either/Or" or "Black-and-White" Fallacy

                    False Dilemma

• argumentum ad temperantiam (The Middle-Ground Fallacy)

• Faulty/False Analogy

  • Undistributed Middle Term

Adapted from: Dr. L. Kip Wheeler 1998-2012. Permission is granted for non-profit, educational, and student reproduction. Last updated March 30, 2012. http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/fallacies_list.html