funtech64/LogicalFallacies

1{"name":"Fallacy of the undistributed middle","category":"Formal syllogistic fallacies","explanation":"The middle term in a categorical syllogism is not distributed.","example":""}2{"name":"Reductio ad Hitlerum","category":"Guilt by Association","explanation":"Dismisses ideas by associating them with something Hitler or the Nazis did.","example":"Hitler supported vegetarianism, so vegetarians are suspect."}3{"name":"Argument from Incredulity","category":"Ignorance","explanation":"Claims something must be false because it's hard to understand or believe.\nWhen someone can't imagine something to be true, and therefore deems it false, or conversely, holds that it must be true because they can't see how it could be false.","example":"I can't imagine how the universe started — so it must have been created."}4{"name":"False authority","category":"Informal fallacies","explanation":"Using an authority as evidence in your argument when the authority is not really an authority on the facts relevant to the argument. As the audience, allowing an irrelevant or false authority to sway you.","example":""}5{"name":"Appeal to the stone","category":"Informal fallacies","explanation":"Dismissing a claim as absurd without demonstrating proof for its absurdity.","example":""}6{"name":"Appeal to Novelty","category":"Innovation Bias","explanation":"Assumes something is better because it\u2019s new.\nClaiming something is superior because it's new or newer.","example":"This must be better — it\u2019s the latest model."}7{"name":"Ambiguity","category":"Language Tricks","explanation":"Uses vague language to mislead or avoid clarity.","example":"I never said I stole the money."}