Tips and Reminders: 6 Fallacies and How to Avoid Them

1. Attack on the Person Instead of the Argument (Ad Hominem)

2. Reduction to the Absurd (Reductio ad Absurdum)

3. Either-Or

4. False Cause (Post Hoc ergo Propter Hoc)

5. Appeal to Authority (Argumentum ad Verecundiam)

6. Bandwagon Appeal (Argumentum ad Populum)

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