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Single Idea 11088

[filed under theme 2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 1. Fallacy ]

Full Idea

Informal fallacies: appeals to force, circumstantial factors, ignorance, pity, popular consensus, authority, generalisation, confused causes, begging the question, complex questions, irrelevance, equivocation, black-and-white, slippery slope etc.

Gist of Idea

We can list at least fourteen informal fallacies

Source

Robert Hanna (Rationality and Logic [2006], 7.3)

Book Ref

Hanna,Robert: 'Rationality and Logic' [MIT 2006], p.218