The names of logical fallacies organized below are linked to more extensive documents made up of examples of the designated fallacy and (occasionally) explanation and discussion of the fallacy. These are collected here primarily for student review and consideration. (Also: some of the links will take you empty pages; I anticipate that these will eventually be filled in.)
Warning! Not every example included here in fact stands as an example of the fallacy! On the contrary, I have intentionally included an occasional example which may look like the fallacy under consideration, but fails to count as an example of that fallacy for one or more reasons.
Also: remember that fallacies are gregarious, social creatures (which is not to say that gregarious, social creatures are prone to fallacious thinking...) - a given argument may involve more than one fallacy, and so the same argument will sometimes appear in more than one category.
[For additional resources, see:
Flush Rush?: or, how to make moral decisions
in the face of uncertainty
(an exercise in critical thinking and values
analysis)
Fallacies of Relevance:
Ad Hominem Ad Hominem CircumstantialFallacies of Presumption:Ad Populum (appeal to the masses) Appeal to Tradition (appeal to the past)
Ad Verecundiam (appeal to authority)
Ad Baculum (appeal to force) Ad Misericordiam (appeal to pity)
Ad Ignorantiam (appeal to ignorance) Tu Quo ("You're one, too!")
Fallacy of Accident Hasty GeneralizationAdditional Fallacies:Biased Statistics Bifurcation (False dilemma)
Complex Question Post Hoc, ergo Propter Hoc ("after this, therefore because of this")
Affirming the Consequent Denying the AntecedentQuestionable Analogy Invincible Ignorance
Equivocation Suppressed Evidence
Begging the Question Fallacy of Division