Logical Fallacy BINGO!
Play it with your friends! The next time you receive or read a post from a wingnut, freeper or other nimrod, check it for the following logical fallacies (courtesy of Wikipedia). There's (at least) one in every paragraph!
- Ad hominem (also called argumentum ad hominem or personal attack) Including:
- ad hominem abusive (also called argumentum ad personam)
- ad hominem circumstantial (also called ad hominem circumstantiae)
- ad hominem tu quoque (also called you-too argument)
- Amphibology (also called amphiboly)
- Appeal to authority (also called argumentum ad verecundiam or argument by authority)
- Appeal to emotion including:
- Appeal to consequences (also called argumentum ad consequentiam)
- Appeal to fear (also called argumentum ad metum or argumentum in terrorem)
- Appeal to flattery
- Appeal to pity (also called argumentum ad misericordiam)
- Appeal to ridicule
- Appeal to spite (also called argumentum ad odium)
- Two wrongs make a right (also called "But Clinton did it!)
- Wishful thinking
- Appeal to motive
- Appeal to novelty (also called argumentum ad novitatem)
- Appeal to probability
- Appeal to tradition (also called argumentum ad antiquitatem or appeal to common practice)
- Argument from fallacy (also called argumentum ad logicam)
- Argument from ignorance (also called argumentum ad ignorantiam or argument by lack of imagination)
- Argument from silence (also called argumentum ex silentio)
- Argumentum ad baculum (also called appeal to force)
- Argumentum ad crumenam (also called appeal to wealth)
- Argumentum ad lazarum (also called appeal to poverty)
- Argumentum ad nauseam (also called argument from repetition)
- Argumentum ad populum (also called Appeal to belief, Argumentum ad numerum, Appeal to popularity, Appeal to the people, Bandwagon fallacy, Appeal to the majority, Authority of the many, Consensus gentium, Authority of the many, Appeal to the gallery, Argument by consensus)
- Base rate fallacy
- Begging the question (also called petitio principii, circular argument or circular reasoning)
- Conjunction fallacy
- Continuum fallacy (also called fallacy of the beard)
- Correlative based fallacies including:
- Fallacy of many questions (also called complex question, fallacy of presupposition, loaded question or plurium interrogationum)
- False dilemma (also called false dichotomy or bifurcation)
- Denying the correlative
- Suppressed correlative
- Dicto simpliciter, including:
- Accident (also called a dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid)
- Converse accident (also called a dicto secundum quid ad dictum simpliciter)
- Equivocation
- Fallacies of distribution:
- Composition
- Division
- Ecological fallacy
- False analogy
- False premise
- False compromise
- Faulty generalization including:
- Biased sample
- Hasty generalization (also called fallacy of insufficient statistics, fallacy of insufficient sample, fallacy of the lonely fact, leaping to a conclusion, hasty induction, secundum quid)
- Overwhelming exception
- Statistical special pleading
- Gambler's fallacy/Inverse gambler's fallacy
- Genetic fallacy
- Guilt by association
- Historian's fallacy
- Homunculus fallacy
- If-by-whiskey (argues both sides)
- Ignoratio elenchi (also called irrelevant conclusion)
- Inappropriate interpretations or applications of statistics including:
- Biased sample
- Correlation implies causation
- Gambler's fallacy
- Prosecutor's fallacy
- Screening test fallacy
- Incomplete comparison
- Inconsistent comparison
- Invalid proof
- Judgemental language
- Juxtaposition
- Lump of labour fallacy (also called the fallacy of labour scarcity)
- Meaningless statement
- Middle ground (also called argumentum ad temperantiam)
- Misleading vividness
- Naturalistic fallacy
- Negative proof
- Non sequitur including:
- Affirming the consequent
- Denying the antecedent
- No true Scotsman
- Package deal fallacy
- Pathetic fallacy
- Perfect solution fallacy
- Poisoning the well
- Proof by assertion
- Proof by verbosity
- Questionable cause (also called non causa pro causa) including:
- Correlation implies causation (also called cum hoc ergo propter hoc)
- Fallacy of the single cause
- Joint effect
- Post hoc (also called post hoc ergo propter hoc)
- Regression fallacy
- Texas sharpshooter fallacy
- Wrong direction
- Red herring (also called irrelevant conclusion)
- Reification (also called hypostatization)
- Relativist fallacy (also called subjectivist fallacy)
- Retrospective determinism (it happened so it was bound to)
- Shifting the burden of proof
- Slippery slope
- Special pleading
- Straw man
- Style over substance fallacy
- Syllogistic fallacies, including:
- Affirming a disjunct
- Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise
- Existential fallacy
- Fallacy of exclusive premises
- Fallacy of four terms (also called quaternio terminorum)
- Fallacy of the undistributed middle
- Illicit major
- Illicit minor







