Name That Fallacy

twenty-four ways to be wrong on purpose

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Twenty-four named fallacies with their standard definitions. Every example on this page was written for it — none is a quotation, and nobody in them is a real person, because an argument is easier to look at when there is no one to defend. Spotting a fallacy does not make a conclusion false, only unsupported by that particular argument; a badly argued claim can still turn out to be true, which is the part these lists usually leave off. ← back to the cabinet