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If you Google “fallacy” you will find a link to my work on the first page. I used to be the top link, but Wikipedia beat me. Because of this, I receive a fair amount of email from people asking about fallacies and about getting a copy of the material. I finally got around to updating the material and assembling it into a fairly nice PDF file, complete with a color cover. You can view/download it here: 42 Fallacies.
The book contains the following fallacies:
Ad Hominem
Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
Appeal to the Consequences of a Belief
Appeal to Authority
Appeal to Belief
Appeal to Common Practice
Appeal to Emotion
Appeal to Popularity
Appeal to Fear
Appeal to Flattery
Appeal to Novelty
Appeal to Pity
Appeal to Popularity
Appeal to Ridicule
Appeal to Spite
Appeal to Tradition
Begging the Question
Biased Generalization
Burden of Proof
Circumstantial Ad Hominem
Fallacy of Composition
Confusing Cause and Effect
Fallacy of Division
False Dilemma
Gambler’s Fallacy
Genetic Fallacy
Guilt by Association
Hasty Generalization
Ignoring a Common Cause
Middle Ground
Misleading Vividness
Peer Pressure
Personal Attack
Poisoning the Well
Post Hoc
Questionable Cause
Red Herring
Relativist Fallacy
Slippery Slope
Special Pleading
Spotlight
Straw Man
Two Wrongs Make a Right
Who is to Say?
Thank you; this will be very useful.
Always good to have an easy reference copy of these. Thank you!
I think Mike may be a Douglas Adams fan.
Isn’t everyone?