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:
Four out of five chocolate eaters recommend chocolate bars! It must be the best chocolate to buy.
I’ve heard that chocolate bars are some of the best chocolate bars out there.
I’ve seen so many chocolate bars sold, so they must be the best chocolate to buy.
I ate the chocolate bars and then I got pimples, so the chocolate must be the cause of pimples.
I saw the queen eating these chocolate bars, so they must be the best chocolate bars.
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