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At The Fallacy Files Website, an extensive taxonomy of fallacies may be found. Based from Drew Curtis's Fark.com, a user idsfa maintains a gallery of cute labels to illustrate and summarize the nature of these fallacies. (There are a few other people whose contributions I've added.) This page is created to facillitate identifying the relationship between the illustrated fallacies, and to encourage idsfa to get around to eventually completing this (silly) illustration process. Illustrations are linked to where idsfa was last noticed storing them; the actual pictures are mirrored on this server. Where fallacies were not in the original taxonomy, I have added them according to my best judgement. Text links go back to the original information at the Fallacy Files. See also this, for contrast. | |||||
| Fallacy | Subfallacy | Sub2fallacy | Sub3fallacy | Sub4fallacy | Sub5fallacy |
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| Formal Fallacy | Bad Reasons Fallacy | Fallacy Fallacy <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fallacyfiles.org/fallfall.html"><img src="http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6042/adLogicam.jpg"><img src="http://i14.ebayimg.com/01/s/08/81/9b/8f_2.JPG">[!]</a> | |||
Non Sequitur <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fallacyfiles.org/fallfall.html"><img src="http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6042/adLogicam.jpg"><img src="http://i14.ebayimg.com/01/s/08/81/9b/8f_2.JPG">[!]</a> | |||||
Argumentum ad Imaginibus | |||||
| Fallacy of Modal Logic | Modal Scope Fallacy | ||||
| Fallacy of Propositional Logic | Affirming a Disjunct | ||||
Affirming the Consequent | |||||
| Commutation of Conditionals | |||||
| Denying a Conjunct | |||||
| Denying the Antecedent | |||||
| Improper Transposition | |||||
| Fallacy of Quantificational Logic | Existential Fallacy | ||||
| Illicit Conversion | |||||
| Quantifier Shift | |||||
| Some Are/Some Are Not | |||||
| Masked Man Fallacy | |||||
Probabilistic Fallacy |
The Base Rate Fallacy | ||||
| The Conjunction Fallacy | |||||
| The Gambler's Fallacy | |||||
| The Hot Hand Fallacy | |||||
| Syllogistic Fallacy | Affirmative Conclusion from a Negative Premiss | ||||
| Exclusive Premisses | |||||
| Four-Term Fallacy | Ambiguous Middle | ||||
| Illicit Process | Illicit Major | ||||
| Illicit Minor | |||||
| Negative Conclusion from Affirmative Premisses | |||||
| Undistributed Middle | |||||
| Informal Fallacy | Accident | Appeal to Nature | |||
| Ambiguity | Accent | ||||
| Amphiboly | Scope Fallacy | Modal Scope Fallacy (see above) | |||
| Quantifier Shift (see above) | |||||
Equivocation |
Ambiguous Middle (see above) | ||||
| Redefinition | No True Scotsman | ||||
Quoting Out of Context | |||||
Appeal to Ignorance ![]() | |||||
Begging the Question |
Loaded Words | Appeal to Nature (see above) | |||
| Question-Begging Analogy | |||||
Bare Assertion | |||||
Black-or-White Fallacy | |||||
| Composition | |||||
| Division | |||||
| Non Causa Pro Causa | Cum Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc | ||||
Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc | |||||
| The Regression Fallacy | |||||
| Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy | |||||
| One-Sidedness | |||||
Red Herring |
Appeal to Consequences ![]() |
Appeal to Force | Broken Window Fallacy![]() |
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Wishful Thinking | |||||
| Bandwagon Fallacy | |||||
| Emotional Appeal | Wishful Thinking (see above) | ||||
Argumentum ad Odium | |||||
Argumentum ad Verbosium |
Arguementum ad Nauseam![]() | ||||
| Genetic Fallacy | Argumentum ad Hominem |
Appeal to Motive
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Appeal to Ridicule
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Poisoning the Well![]() | |||||
Tu Quoque | |||||
Argumentum ad Mominem ![]() | |||||
Appeal to Misleading Authority |
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| Appeal to Age | Appeal to Novelty | ||||
Appeal to Tradition | |||||
| Appeal to Celebrity | Argumentum ad TotalFark ![]() ![]() | ||||
| Appeal to Money | Appeal to Poverty | ||||
Appeal to Wealth | |||||
Appeal to Popularity | |||||
| Etymological Fallacy | |||||
Guilt by Association ![]() |
The Hitler Card | ||||
Straw Man | |||||
| Two Wrongs Make a Right | Tu Quoque (see above) | ||||
Special Pleading | |||||
| Vagueness | Appeal to Nature (see above) | ||||
| Fake Precision | |||||
Moving the Goalpost | |||||
| No True Scottsman (see above) | |||||
Slippery Slope | |||||
Weak Analogy![]() |
Question-Begging Analogy (see above) | ||||
Unrepresentative Sample![]() |
Hasty Generalization | ||||
| The Anecdotal Fallacy | |||||
| Miscelaneous Fallacy | Loaded Question | ||||
Argumentum Ad Spaghetti![]() (Image creator source credit lost; sorry) | |||||