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- Appeal to force
- The use of threats or force in attempt to gain acceptance of a conclusion
- Abusive
- Attempting to deny the acceptance of a conclusion by discrediting the individual or source rather than the issue itself
- Circumstantial
- Attempting to gain acceptance for a conclusion due to special, inapplicable circumstances
- Argument from ignorance
- Attempting to gain acceptance for a conclusion due to lack of evidence against it
- Appeal to pity
- Attempting to gain acceptance for a conclusion due to inapplicable sympathy
- Popular assent
- Attempting to gain acceptance of a conclusion that is not supported by good evidence through the arousal of emotions
- Appeal to authority
- Attempting to gain acceptance for a conclusion on the basis of irrelevant authority
- Accident
- Attempting to gain acceptance for a conclusion by referencing a general rule without specific qualification
- Hasty generalization
- Attempting to gain acceptance of a generalization on the basis of a few instances that are not characteristic of the majority
- False cause
- The acceptance of a conclusion bases on an incorrect premiss
- Begging the question
- Using two unproven premisses as proof for each other
- Complex question
- An interrogative statement containing an unproven premiss
- Irrelevant conclusion
- The shifting of the acceptance of a conclusion to another conclusion where it is not relevant
- Equivocation
- Using an improper literal meaning of a word in an argument where that literal meaning is not applicable
- Amphiboly
- The use of an ambiguous premiss in the proof of a conclusion
- Accent
- Emphasis of certain words in a premiss that results in a change in the meaning of the premiss
- Composition
- Erroneously using individual meanings as proof for an entirety
- Division
- A false assumption that what is true of the whole is also true for all of its parts
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