# Recognizing informal fallacies

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 14, 2017, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recognizing-informal-fallacies/779795 "2017-02-14T03:01:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![K2500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@K2500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K2500)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recognizing-informal-fallacies/779795/1 "2017-02-14T03:01:51Z")

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Recent arguments have me trying to put the edge back in my game.

Wikipedia has a nice little article on fallacies,[here.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies)

The formal ones seem easy enough to get a handle on, but the list of informals is _long._

Can they be broken down to groups of similar fallicies? Maybe there is a top ten list somewhere? I hate knowing when I hear(or speak) one but not be able to articulate how exactly the argument fails.