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Fallacies - Coggle Diagram
Fallacies
Types
Relevance
Premises
Not relevant to the conclusion
Subtypes
Appeal to populace
Appeal to emotion
Red herring
Straw man
Attack to the person
Appeal to force
Defective induction
Premises
Weak and ineffective
Subtypes
Argument from ignorance
Appeal to inappropiate authority
False cause
Hasty generalization
Presumption
Premises
Too much assumed
Subtypes
Accident
Complex question
Begging question
Ambiguity
equivocal use of words or phrases.
Subtypes
Equivocation
Amphiboly
Accent
Composition
Reason
Central tasks of logic
Identify
Ways in which we are tempted to reason
incorrectly.
Incorrectly
when the premises of an argument fail to
support its conclusion
Any error in reasoning is a fallacy
Illustration mistake
Formal fallacy
Pattern of mistake
Appears on deductive arguments
Informal
Arise
Confusions concerning
Content of the language used
Logicians
Commonly use the term fallacy
Designate
Any error
Typical error
Narrower sense
Each fallacy is a type of incorrect argument