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Some mistakes in reasoning arise from appeals to irrelevant factors or from unsupported assumptions.  Others arise from the misuse of language. Many of both kinds of these mistakes occur so often they deserve special study.

Note that not all irrelevant appeals and unsupported assumptions are fallacies.  Fallacies can only occur in argumentive discourse.  Thus, if no argument is offered, no fallacy can be present.

SCIENTIFIC REASONING

INDUCTIVE FALLACIES

• The Nature of Fallacies
• Equivocation
• Begging the Question
• Complex Question
• False Dichotomy
• Red Herring
• Straw Person
• Division
• Composition
• Appeal to the People
• Appeal to Authority
• Appeal to Ignorance
• Appeal to Emotion
• Attack on the Person
• Genetic Fallacy
• Hasty Generalization
• False Cause
• Slippery Slope

• Weak Analogy