Comprehensive Logical Fallacies Listing with Detailed Explanations and Examples

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Logically Fallacious • Moving the Goalposts • Misleading Vividness • Quantum Physics Fallacy • Exclusive Premises • Unfalsifiability • Affirmative Conclusion from a Negative Premise • Appeal to Spite • Righteousness Fallacy • Oversimplified Cause Fallacy • Definist Fallacy • Appeal to Heaven • Base Rate Fallacy • Slippery Slope • Argument to Moderation • Ad Hominem (Guilt by Association) • Overextended Outrage • Argument from Incredulity • Least Plausible Hypothesis • Unwarranted Contrast • Argument by Gibberish • Illicit Contraposition • Faulty Comparison • Rights To Ought Fallacy • Etymological Fallacy • Willed Ignorance • Appeal to Common Belief • Ludic Fallacy • Anonymous Authority • Hypnotic Bait and Switch • Limited Depth • Fallacy of (the) Undistributed Middle • Selective Attention • Magical Thinking • Appeal to Anger • Non Sequitur • False Attribution • Distinction Without a Difference • Ecological Fallacy • Cherry Picking • Argument from False Authority • Pseudo-Logical Fallacies • Weak Analogy • Far-Fetched Hypothesis • Statement of Conversion • Confusing an Explanation with an Excuse • Suppressed Correlative • Accident Fallacy • Equivocation • Spiritual Fallacy • Spin Doctoring • Ad Hominem (Abusive) • Illicit Major • Self-Righteousness Fallacy • Appeal to False Authority • Nirvana Fallacy • Affirming the Consequent • Survivorship Fallacy • Reductio ad Absurdum • Blind Authority Fallacy • Argument by Pigheadedness • Subverted Support • Tokenism • Argument from Silence • Retrogressive Causation • Appeal to Celebrity • Appeal to Faith • Gambler’s Fallacy • Appeal to Consequences • Alternative Advance • Appeal to Pity • Stolen Concept Fallacy • Argument from Hearsay • Fallacy of Every and All • Fallacy of Composition • Shoehorning • Incomplete Comparison • Identity Fallacy • Regression Fallacy • Begging the Question • Red Herring • Appeal to Nature • Appeal to Authority • Relative Privation • Modal (Scope) Fallacy • Ad Hominem (Tu quoque) • Stereotyping (the fallacy) • Logic Chopping • Proving Non-Existence • Circular Reasoning • Argument by Selective Reading • Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy • Biased Sample Fallacy • Appeal to Extremes • Avoiding the Issue • Inconsistency • Argument by Personal Charm • Argument by Repetition • Quantifier-Shift Fallacy • Appeal to Common Folk • Style Over Substance • Appeal to Possibility • Self-Sealing Argument • Conflicting Conditions • Proof Surrogate • Reification • Ad Hominem (Circumstantial) • Appeal to Force • Type-Token Fallacy • Double Standard • No True Scotsman • Negative Conclusion from Affirmative Premises • Meaningless Question • Subjectivist Fallacy • Sunk-Cost Fallacy • Arguments • Argument from Fallacy • Failure to Elucidate • Just Because Fallacy • Reasoning • Appeal to the Moon • Appeal to Popularity • Appeal to Coincidence • Appeal to Equality • Ad Hoc Rescue • Conjunction Fallacy • Overwhelming Exception • Bulverism • Proof by Intimidation • Inflation of Conflict • Appeal to Intuition • Alphabet Soup • Rationalization • Alleged Certainty • Accent Fallacy • McNamara Fallacy • Notable Effort • Argument to the Purse • Scapegoating • Circular Definition • Fake Precision • Just In Case Fallacy • Appeal to the Law • Appeal to Fear • Appeal to Stupidity • Fallacy of Opposition • Confusing Currently Unexplained with Unexplainable • Disjunction Fallacy • Argument by Emotive Language • Conspiracy Theory • Hasty Generalization • Amazing Familiarity • Naturalistic Fallacy • Existential Fallacy • Denying a Conjunct • Appeal to Novelty • Multiple Comparisons Fallacy • Spotlight Fallacy • Special Pleading • Limited Scope • Broken Window Fallacy • Appeal to Closure • Appeal to Common Sense • Appeal to Accomplishment • Methodology • Appeal to Normality • Appeal to Ridicule • Ad Fidentia • Shifting of the Burden of Proof • Galileo Fallacy • Ambiguity Fallacy • Homunculus Fallacy • Strawman Fallacy • Appeal to Flattery • Argument by Fast Talking • Illicit Substitution of Identicals • Appeal to Definition • Missing Data Fallacy • Causal Reductionism • Historian’s Fallacy • Two Wrongs Make a Right • Jumping to Conclusions • Kettle Logic • Prejudicial Language • Appeal to Emotion • False Dilemma • Gadarene Swine Fallacy • Denying the Antecedent • Wishful Thinking • Hedging • Insignificant Cause • Moralistic Fallacy • False Conversion • Political Correctness Fallacy • Argument of the Beard • Reductio ad Hitlerum • Psychogenetic Fallacy • Fantasy Projection • Affirming a Disjunct • Argument from Ignorance • Fallacy of Division • Negating Antecedent and Consequent • Package-Deal Fallacy • Anthropomorphism • Hypothesis Contrary to Fact • Extended Analogy • Complex Question Fallacy • Appeal to Desperation • Argument from Age • Appeal to Self-evident Truth • Denying the Correlative • Appeal to Trust • Lying with Statistics • Having Your Cake • Use-Mention Error • Traitorous Critic Fallacy • Contextomy • Commutation of Conditionals • Questionable Cause • False Equivalence • Illicit Minor • Genetic Fallacy • If-By-Whiskey • Poisoning the Well • Appeal to Complexity • False Effect • Fallacy of Four Terms • Hot Hand Fallacy • Appeal to Tradition • Post-Designation • Fact-to-fiction Fallacy • Post Hoc • Nutpicking Fallacy • Gish Gallop • Pragmatic Fallacy • Appeal to Loyalty • Deceptive Sharing • Imposter Fallacy • Unreasonable Inclusion Fallacy • Logical Fallacies Listing with Definitions and Detailed Examples •

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