Relevance fallacies

form of argument and an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent

a form of defeasible argument in which a claimed authority's support is used as evidence for an argument's conclusion

logical fallacy that, since proposition has not yet been proven false, it must be true

social phenomenon that responsabilizes the victim of the damage suffered

refutation of a view by comparing it to the Nazi Party

false clue that misleads or distracts attention away from a relevant or important question

"Whataboutism" or "whataboutery" (as in, "but what about X?") refers to the propaganda strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of offering an explanation or defense against the original accusation. It is an informal fallacy that the accused party uses to avoid accountability—whether attempting to distract by shifting the conversation's focus away from their behaviour or attempting to justify themselves by pointing to the similar behaviour (which may be true or false, but irrelevant) of their opponent or another party who is not the current subject of discussio

informal fallacy of presenting an argument that fails to address the issue in question

fallacy regarding hypocrisy

mistaken belief that more frequent chance events will lead to less frequent chance events, or vice versa, to balance out

threat of force to make a conclusion accepted

argument or rhetorical tactic in which it is proposed that a thing is good because it is “natural”, or bad because it is “unnatural”

argument

a cliché that evolved into a rhetorical tactic

ethical argument asserting that it is fallacious to explain something good reductively

fallacy of irrelevance that is based solely on someone's or something's history, origin, or source rather than its current meaning or context

fallacy when one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole

argument based on the absence of statements in historical documents, rather than their presence

informal fallacy which asserts that the truth can be found as a compromise between two opposite positions

the fallacy that, since an argument contains a logical fallacy, its conclusion must be false

fallacy

error in thinking which involves under-valuing base rate information

legal defence where one attempts to deliberately confuse the jury by making use of the red herring fallacy

Name-dropping (or name-checking) is the practice of naming or alluding to important people or institutions in order to indicate one's association with them. The term often connotes an attempt to impress others; it is usually regarded negatively, and under certain circumstances may constitute a breach of professional ethics. It may be done within a conversation, a story, a song, an online identity, or other communication.

informal fallacy

informal fallacy

manipulative tactic that focus on the tone in which a statement was presented and in turn detract attention from the truth or falsity of that statement

Bulverism is a rhetorical fallacy that combines circular reasoning, the genetic fallacy and ad hominem with presumption or condescension. The Bulverist presumes that a speaker's argument is false or invalid and then explains why the speaker made that argument (even if said argument is actually correct) by attacking the speaker or the speaker's motive.

genetic fallacy that holds that the present-day meaning of a word or phrase should necessarily be similar to its historical meaning

Soviet catchphrase

type of informal fallacy

philosophical expressions

type of informal fallacy

Russian propagandist slogan

Red-baiting, also known as reductio ad Stalinum () and red-tagging (in the Philippines), is an intention to discredit the validity of a political opponent and the opponent's logical argument by accusing, denouncing, attacking, or persecuting the target individual or group as anarchist, communist, Marxist, socialist, Stalinist, or fellow travelers towards these ideologies. In the phrase, red refers to the color that traditionally symbolized left-wing politics worldwide since the 19th century, while baiting refers to persecution, torment, or harassment, as in baiting.

belief that the past is inherently inferior to the present

evidence of any kind that suggests something is missing or that it does not exist

type of informal fallacy, when a question touches upon more than one issue, yet allows only for one answer

deductive fallacy

type of logical fallacy