Every argument breaks somewhere specific
Ninety one named ways an argument can fail, grouped by what actually goes wrong. Open a cluster to see its members.
91fallacies11clusters
clusters
- Crowds and prestigeNumbers, custom and status standing in for reasons8
- Attacks on the sourceJudging the speaker instead of the argument8
- Emotional pressureFeeling recruited to do the work of evidence8
- Distraction and distortionMoving the argument somewhere easier to win13
- Broken structureThe form itself does not carry the conclusion14
- False choices and rangesOptions and spectrums squeezed out of shape5
- Causal errorsSequence, coincidence and hindsight read as cause7
- Part and wholeTraits smuggled between members and groups4
- Evidence and samplingThe data that was gathered, and the data that was not9
- Burden and ignoranceNot knowing treated as knowing3
- Values and premisesHidden value claims doing the arguing12