I’ve stolen these points from Libertarian’s post in A Glossary of Black on White Crime.
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The false dilemma, where either blacks are more criminal than whites or vice-versa?
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Argument from ignorance, where something not proven true is assumed to be false?
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Slippery slope fallacy, where increasingly unnacceptable consequences are drawn?
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Complex question, where two unrelated points are conjoined into a single premise?
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Appeal to pity, where the reader is asked to sympathize with one side or the other?
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Appeal to consequences, where the author points to disagreeable consequences of disregarding his view?
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Prejudicial language fallacy, where value or moral goodness is attached to believing the author?
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Popularity argment, where the author validates his opinion because it is held by a large number of people?
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Attacking the person, where the author misdirects the argument to an attack on individuals?
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Appeal to authority, where the reader is expected to take the word of some news source or authority?
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Hasty generalization, where the conclusion is drawn from too small a sample?
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Unrepresentative sample, where the sample does not faithfully represent the whole?
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False analogy, where the author is comparing two or more events that are essentially unrelated?
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Slothful induction, where the actual truth of a conclusion is denied despite evidence to the contrary?
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Fallacy of exclusion, where evidence that would change the outcome of the argument is excluded or ignored?
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Accident fallacy, where a generalization is applied when circumstances warrant an exception?
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Post hoc fallacy, where a thing that follows something else is held to cause what it follows?
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Joint effect fallacy, where one thing is held to cause another, when in fact they are co-causes of something else?
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Fallacy of insignificance, where one thing is held to be the cause of another, and it is, but is insignificant compared to some other cause?
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Begging the question, where the truth of the conclusion is assumed by the premise?
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Irrelevant conclusion, where argument in defnese of one conclusion instead proves another conclusion?
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Straw man, where the arguer attacks something that is different from his opponents point?
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Fallacy of composition, where because the attributes of the parts of a whole have a certain property, it is argued that the whole has that property?
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Undistributed middle, where two separate categories are said to be connected because they share a common property?
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Illicite major, where the predicate of the conclusion talks about all of something, but the premises only mention some cases of the term in the predicate?
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Nonsupport fallacy, where evidence for the phenomenon being explained is biased, or was derived by bias?
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Limited depth fallacy, where the theory which explains does not appeal to underlying causes?
[pointless invitation]
If I’ve missed on something or you wish to expand on the list, feel free.
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SterlingNorth
