Logical fallacies used by degenerates to deceive and program sheeple:
Ad hominem - attacking your opponent's character or personal traits in an attempt to undermine their argument.
Ambiguity - using double meanings or ambiguities of language to mislead or misrepresent the truth.
Anecdotal - using personal experience or an isolated example instead of a valid argument, especially to dismiss statistics.
Appeal to authority - saying that because authority thinks something, it must therefore be true.
Appeal to emotion - manipulating an emotional response instead of a valid or compelling argument.
Appeal to nature - making the argument that because something is natural, it is therefore valid, justified, inevitable, good, or ideal.
Bandwagon - appealing to the popularity or the fact that many people do something as an attempted form of validation.
Begging the question - a circular argument in which the conclusion is included in the premise.
Black or white - Where two alternative states are presented as the only possibilities, when in fact more possibilities exist.
Burden of proof - saying that the burden of proof lies not with the person making the claim, but with someone else to disprove.
Composition & division - assuming that what's true for one part of something has to be applied to all, or other parts of it.
False cause - presuming that a real or percieved relationship between thing means that one is the cause of the other.
Genetic - judging something good or bad on the basis of where it comes from, or from whom it comes from.
Loaded question - asking a question that has an assumption built into it, so that it can't be answered without appearing guilty.
Middle ground - saying that a composite, or middle point between two extremes must be the truth.
No true scotsman - making what could be called an appeal to purity as a way to dismiss relevant criticism or flaws of an argument.
Personal incredulity - saying that because one fits something difficult to understand, it's therefore not true.
Reductio ad absurdum - disproving something by showing it leads to absurd, or that if it were not true, the result would be absurd.
Strawman - misrepresenting someone's argument to make it easier to attack.
Slippery slope - asserting that if we allow A to happen, then B will consequently happen too, therefore A should not happen.
Special pleading - moving the goalspots or making up ecxeptions when a claim is shown to be false.
The gambler's fallacy - believing that runs occur to statistically independent phenomena such as roulette wheel spins.
Tu quorque - avoiding having to engage with critcisim by turning it back on the accuser, answering ctiticism with criticism.
The Texas sharpshooter - cherry picking data clusters to suit an argument, or finding a pattern to fit a presumption.
The fallacy fallacy - presuming a claim to be necessarily wrong, because a fallacy has been committed.
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