A list of 16 words by uselessness.
- beg the question appears on 9 other lists
- ad hominem appears on 42 other lists
- straw man appears on 9 other lists
- false precision appears on just this list
- guilt by association appears on just this list
- slippery slope appears on 10 other lists
- bifurcation appears on 21 other lists
- redefinition appears on 1 other list
- exclusive premises appears on just this list
- appeal to emotion appears on just this list
- biased sample appears on 1 other list
- circular argument appears on 1 other list
- deny the antecedent appears on just this list
- bandwagon appears on 8 other lists
- godwin's law appears on 9 other lists
- gambler's fallacy appears on 3 other lists
abraxaszugzwang I'm currently teaching a debate class, so some of the logical fallacies are fresh in memory. There are many, but these are some I'm teaching: argumentum ad nauseam (what a perfectly cutting and intelligent way to say, "gag me."), argumentum ad ignorantiam, argumentum ad numerum, argumentum ad populum, non sequitur, and tu quoque. Jan 26, 2007
valse I'm going to seem like quite the Latin dork, but it's really just that I'm fresh out of an introductory logic course (and I may be a budding Latin dork at that).
ad verecundiam (appeal to unreliable authority)
ad populum (appeal to the people)
ad baculum (appeal to force)
post hoc ergo propter hoc
equivocation
amphibole (one of my personal favorite forms of ambiguity that refers to the grammatical sort). According to Wikipedia it's amphibology, as amphibole is a type of mineral Jan 4, 2007