Fallacy of Insufficient Evidence
Inappropriate Appeal to Authority
Weak Analogy
Questionable Cause
False Alternatives
Slippery Slope
Hasty Generalization
Loaded Question
Inconsistency
Appeal to ignorance
Citing a witness or authority that is untrustworthy
Claiming that something is true because no one has proven it false or vice versa
Posing a false either/or choice
Posing a question that contains an unfair or unwarranted presupposition
• Claiming without sufficient evidence, that one thing is the cause of something else
• Claiming, without sufficient evidence, that a seemingly harmless action, if taken, will lead to a disastrous outcome
Comparing things that are not really comparable
Asserting inconsistent or contradictory claims
• Drawing a general conclusion from a sample that is biased or too small
The mere correlation fallacy
Oversimplified cause fallacy
The post hoc fallacy