Here’s all the major fallacies covered this year on the 365DaysOfPhilosophy:

weasel words, slippery slope, appeal to authority, straw man, argument from ignorance, shifting the goalposts, post hoc ergo propter hoc, appeal to popularity, ad hominem, tu quoque, cum hoc ergo propter hoc, anecdotal fallacy, red herring, no true Scotsman fallacy, begging the question, hasty generalisation, false dilemma, and reductio ad absurdum.

See if you can identify some of them in the examples below:

We don’t really know if environmental warming is due to elephants, but we cannot say that it is not due to elephants. I can therefore suggest that environmental warming is due to elephants.

The problem with gun control isn’t the liberties that people can have with the use of guns, it’s the illiberal utilisation of personal freedoms that can lead to existence limitations.

You may be worried about the environment but I don’t see people worrying about the limitations that companies have with building.

No real environmental policy would put forward one species survival over another.

There must be environmental problems at the lake because I’ve experienced what can only be defined as problems with the lakeside environment.

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