76 Fallacies
In addition to combining the content of my 42 Fallacies and 30 More Fallacies, this book features some revisions as well as a new section on common formal fallacies.
As the title indicates, this book presents seventy six fallacies. The focus is on providing the reader with definitions and examples of these common fallacies rather than being a handbook on winning arguments or general logic.
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The book presents the following 73 informal fallacies:
Accent, Fallacy of
Accident, Fallacy of
Ad Hominem
Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
Amphiboly, Fallacy of
Anecdotal Evidence, Fallacy Of
Appeal to the Consequences of a Belief
Appeal to Authority, Fallacious
Appeal to Belief
Appeal to Common Practice
Appeal to Emotion
Appeal to Envy
Appeal to Fear
Appeal to Flattery
Appeal to Group Identity
Appeal to Guilt
Appeal to Novelty
Appeal to Pity
Appeal to Popularity
Appeal to Ridicule
Appeal to Spite
Appeal to Tradition
Appeal to Silence
Appeal to Vanity
Argumentum ad Hitlerum
Begging the Question
Biased Generalization
Burden of Proof
Complex Question
Composition, Fallacy of
Confusing Cause and Effect
Confusing Explanations and Excuses
Circumstantial Ad Hominem
Cum Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
Division, Fallacy of
Equivocation, Fallacy of
Fallacious Example
Fallacy Fallacy
False Dilemma
Gambler’s Fallacy
Genetic Fallacy
Guilt by Association
Hasty Generalization
Historian’s Fallacy
Illicit Conversion
Ignoring a Common Cause
Incomplete Evidence
Middle Ground
Misleading Vividness
Moving the Goal Posts
Oversimplified Cause
Overconfident Inference from Unknown Statistics
Pathetic Fallacy
Peer Pressure
Personal Attack
Poisoning the Well
Positive Ad Hominem
Post Hoc
Proving X, Concluding Y
Psychologist’s fallacy
Questionable Cause
Rationalization
Red Herring
Reification, Fallacy of
Relativist Fallacy
Slippery Slope
Special Pleading
Spotlight
Straw Man
Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
Two Wrongs Make a Right
Victim Fallacy
Weak Analogy
The book contains the following three formal (deductive) fallacies:
Affirming the Consequent
Denying the Antecedent
Undistributed Middle
A Philosopher's Blog 
My favorite is Argumentum ad Hitlerum:
Mike, how much government help did you have writing your book? I bet you did it all by yourself wirh no government involvement.
Common, TJ, you know Barack Obama is never wrong. Does this guy like anything about America except the fact that it elected him President?
Mike, Barack doesn’t think you made your book happen.
Well, here is how the state was involved:
The internet was developed from state foundations, so that helped. My public education and federal student aid got me through grad school. I work for a state school. I had to use the public infrastructure for power, water, transportation, and so on. Plus, the state maintains order and civilization (or rather is order and civilization). So, if I had lived in a land of stateless chaos, I suspect I’d never had written the book.
I would think that a philosopher above all would recognize individual achievement. Has anything worthwhile in philosophy been accomplished by the hive?
To steal from Newton, I am able to see as far as I do only because I stand on the shoulders of giants. If there had been no Thales, no Socrates, no Descartes, and so on, philosophy would be…well, at the beginning. Human knowledge is a collective endeavor across time.
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