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| Bias or fallacy name | Also known as | Description | Reference | Added | Updated | ID |
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| hasty generalization | dicto simpliciter, jumping to conclusions, converse accident | One type is Fallacy of Accident. One type is the Misleading Statistic. A component fallacy. | [1], [2] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 012_lf |
| faulty analogy | A component fallacy. | [1] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 019_lf | |
| undistributed middle term | A component fallacy. | [1] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 020_lf | |
| contradictory premises | Closely related to Special Pleading. A component fallacy. | [1] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 021_lf | |
| equivocation | A fallacy of ambiguity. | [1] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 023_lf | |
| division | A fallacy of ambiguity. | [1] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 026_lf | |
| fallacy of reification | fallacy of misplaced concreteness | A fallacy of ambiguity. | [1] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 027_lf |
| no true Scotsman | A fallacy of omission. | [1] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 029_lf | |
| complex question | loaded question | Often overlaps with Begging the Question. A fallacy of omission. | [1] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 032_lf |
| appeal to hypocrisy | you also | See also Tu Quoque. | [2] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 033_lf |
| division | The opposite of Composition. | [2] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 036_lf | |
| red herring | Examples include Appeal to Emotion, Irrelevant Conclusion, Personal Attack, and Straw Man. | [2] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 039_lf | |
| appeal to closure | See also Appeal to a Lack of Evidence, Argument From Adverse Consequences. Opposite of Paralysis of Analysis. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 047_lf | |
| argument from inertia | stay the course | A kind of Argument from Consequences, E for Effort, or Appeal to Tradition. See too, Throwing Good Money After Bad. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 057_lf |
| the argument from motives | See too Questioning Motives. A kind of ad hominem. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 058_lf | |
| blood is thicker than water | favoritism, compadrismo, for my friends anything | Reverse of Ad Hominem. See Identity Fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 067_lf |
| brainwashing | propaganda, radicalization | See also Stockholm Syndrome, Love Bombing, Bribery. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 068_lf |
| complex question | A counterpart of Either Or Reasoning. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 070_lf | |
| disciplinary blinders | See also Star Power, Two Truths. Analogous to Denominational Blinders. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 076_lf | |
| draw your own conclusion fallacy | non-argument argument, let the facts speak For themselves | Related to Leading The Witness Fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 078_lf |
| E for effort | An example is Waving the Bloody Shirt, the Blood of the Martyrs Fallacy. See also Cost Bias, Solider’s Honor Fallacy, Argument from Inertia. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 080_lf | |
| esoteric knowledge | esoteric wisdom, gnosticism, inner truth, inner sanctum, need to know | Counterpart is Obscurantism, Willful Ignorance. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 082_lf |
| essentializing | Opposite of Relativizing. See also Red Herring, Appeal to Nature. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 083_lf | |
| false analogy | Opposite of Sui Generis Fallacy, Difference. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 087_lf | |
| finish the job | Related to Just a Job. See also Blind Loyalty, Soldiers Honor Fallacy, Argument from Inertia. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 088_lf | |
| free speech fallacy | An example is the Safe Space or Safe Place. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 089_lf | |
| hero busting | the perfect is the enemy of the good | Used to assist Identity Fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 094_lf |
| illusion of asymmetric insight | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 215_cb | ||
| illusion of control | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 216_cb | ||
| illusion of explanatory depth | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 217_cb | ||
| illusion of transparency | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 218_cb | ||
| illusion of validity | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 219_cb | ||
| illusory correlation | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 220_cb | ||
| illusory truth effect (illusion-of-truth effect) | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 222_cb | ||
| implicit association | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 223_cb | ||
| impostor syndrome | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 224_cb | ||
| ingroup bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 226_cb | ||
| information bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 227_cb | ||
| insensitivity to sample size | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 228_cb | ||
| intentionality bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 229_cb | ||
| interoceptive bias or hungry judge effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 230_cb | ||
| just-world hypothesis | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 232_cb | ||
| lag effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 233_cb | ||
| law of the instrument | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 235_cb | ||
| less-is-better effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 236_cb | ||
| leveling and sharpening | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 237_cb | ||
| levels-of-processing effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 238_cb | ||
| list-length effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 239_cb | ||
| logical fallacy | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 240_cb | ||
| loss aversion | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 241_cb | ||
| memory bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 242_cb | ||
| memory inhibition | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 243_cb | ||
| money illusion | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 248_cb | ||
| mood-congruent memory bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 249_cb | ||
| state-dependent memory | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 250_cb | ||
| moral credential effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 251_cb | ||
| moral luck | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 252_cb | ||
| naive cynicism | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 253_cb | ||
| naive realism | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 254_cb | ||
| negativity bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 255_cb | ||
| negativity effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 256_cb | ||
| neglect of probability | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 257_cb | ||
| next-in-line effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 258_cb | ||
| non-adaptive choice switching | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 259_cb | ||
| objectivity illusion | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 263_cb | ||
| observer-expectancy effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 264_cb | ||
| omission bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 265_cb | ||
| ostrich effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 267_cb | ||
| planning fallacy | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 280_cb | ||
| plant blindness | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 281_cb | ||
| positive outcome bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 282_cb | ||
| positivity effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 283_cb | ||
| prevention bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 285_cb | ||
| primacy effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 286_cb | ||
| probability matching | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 287_cb | ||
| processing difficulty effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 288_cb | ||
| projection bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 289_cb | ||
| proportionality bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 290_cb | ||
| prospect theory | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 291_cb | ||
| pseudocertainty effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 292_cb | ||
| puritanical bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 293_cb | ||
| Pygmalion effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 294_cb | ||
| reactance | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 295_cb | ||
| reactive devaluation | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 296_cb | ||
| recency effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 298_cb | ||
| recency illusion | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 299_cb | ||
| reminiscence bump | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 300_cb | ||
| repetition blindness | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 301_cb | ||
| restraint bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 302_cb | ||
| rhyme as reason effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 303_cb | ||
| risk aversion | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 304_cb | ||
| risk compensation | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 305_cb | ||
| Peltzman effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 306_cb | ||
| rosy retrospection | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 307_cb | ||
| salience bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 308_cb | ||
| saying is believing effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 309_cb | ||
| scope neglect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 310_cb | ||
| selective perception | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 312_cb | ||
| self-relevance effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 313_cb | ||
| self-serving bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 314_cb | ||
| Semmelweis reflex | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 315_cb | ||
| serial position effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 316_cb | ||
| seven sins of memory | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 317_cb | ||
| sexual overperception bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 318_cb | ||
| shared information bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 319_cb | ||
| social bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 320_cb | ||
| social comparison bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 321_cb | ||
| social cryptomnesia | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 322_cb | ||
| social desirability bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 323_cb | ||
| source confusion | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 324_cb | ||
| spacing effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 325_cb | ||
| spotlight effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 326_cb | ||
| status quo bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 327_cb | ||
| stereotype bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 328_cb | ||
| stereotypical bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 329_cb | ||
| stereotyping | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 330_cb | ||
| subadditivity effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 331_cb | ||
| subject-expectancy effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 332_cb | ||
| subjective validation | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 333_cb | ||
| suffix effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 334_cb | ||
| surrogation | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 338_cb | ||
| survivorship bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 339_cb | ||
| system justification | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 340_cb | ||
| systematic bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 341_cb | ||
| tachypsychia | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 342_cb | ||
| teleological bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 343_cb | ||
| telescoping effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 344_cb | ||
| testing effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 345_cb | ||
| third-person effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 347_cb | ||
| time-saving bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 348_cb | ||
| tip of the tongue phenomenon | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 349_cb | ||
| trait ascription bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 350_cb | ||
| Travis syndrome | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 351_cb | ||
| truth bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 352_cb | ||
| Turkey illusion | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 353_cb | ||
| ultimate attribution error | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 354_cb | ||
| unconscious bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 355_cb | ||
| implicit bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 356_cb | ||
| unit bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 357_cb | ||
| valence effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 358_cb | ||
| value selection bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 359_cb | ||
| verbatim effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 360_cb | ||
| von Restorff effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 361_cb | ||
| Weber–Fechner law | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 362_cb | ||
| well travelled road effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 363_cb | ||
| wishful thinking | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 364_cb | ||
| women are wonderful effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 365_cb | ||
| worse-than-average effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 366_cb | ||
| Zeigarnik effect | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 367_cb | ||
| zero-risk bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 368_cb | ||
| zero-sum bias | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 369_cb | ||
| I don't want to hear it | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 370_lf | |||
| circulus in probando | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 417_lf | |||
| closed-mindedness | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 418_lf | |||
| coincidental correlation | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 419_lf | |||
| compadrismo | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 420_lf | |||
| converse accident | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 423_lf | |||
| cursing | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 426_lf | |||
| dacoits fallacy | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 427_lf | |||
| dicto simpliciter | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 429_lf | |||
| esoteric wisdom | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 433_lf | |||
| fallacy of misplaced concreteness | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 435_lf | |||
| favoritism | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 439_lf | |||
| for my friends anything | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 441_lf | |||
| gnosticism | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 443_lf | |||
| hear no evil speak no evil | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 448_lf | |||
| inner sanctum | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 453_lf | |||
| inner truth | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 454_lf | |||
| it does not follow | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 455_lf | |||
| jumping to conclusions | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 456_lf | |||
| let the facts speak For themselves | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 457_lf | |||
| loaded question | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 458_lf | |||
| motivated ignorance | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 462_lf | |||
| need to know | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 464_lf | |||
| non-argument argument | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 465_lf | |||
| obscenity | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 466_lf | |||
| profanity | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 471_lf | |||
| profiteering | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 472_lf | |||
| propaganda | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 473_lf | |||
| radicalization | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 474_lf | |||
| shearing the sheeple | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 477_lf | |||
| stay the course | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 480_lf | |||
| the perfect is the enemy of the good | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 483_lf | |||
| three monkeys fallacy | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 484_lf | |||
| tuning out | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 485_lf | |||
| vulture capitalism | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 488_lf | |||
| wealth is the disease and I am the cure | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 489_lf | |||
| you also | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-11 | 490_lf | |||
| ableism | con artist's fallacy, dacoit's fallacy, shearing the sheeple, profiteering, vulture capitalism, wealth is the disease and I am the cure | Fallacy saying that those who are less capable therefore are less deserving and therefore can be justifiably victimized due to how nature is. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-12 | 040_lf |
| con artist's fallacy | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-12 | 421_lf | |||
| I wish I had a magic wand | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 492_lf | ||
| Job's comforter fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 493_lf | ||
| a priori argument | A given pre-conceived conclusion is determined from the start, then any argument is sought to support it. Reasoning "from what is before" without observation or experience. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 494_lf | |
| complexity | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 515_lf | ||
| cultural appropriation | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 516_lf | ||
| denominational | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 519_lf | ||
| denominational blindness | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 520_lf | ||
| diminished responsibility | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 521_lf | ||
| dog-whistle politics | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 522_lf | ||
| ego / nos quoque | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 523_lf | ||
| elections have consequences | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 525_lf | ||
| emotional | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 526_lf | ||
| evening up the score | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 527_lf | ||
| excluded outliers | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 528_lf | ||
| fait accompli | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 529_lf | ||
| fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 530_lf | ||
| for my enemies nothing fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 532_lf | ||
| fundamental attribution | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 533_lf | ||
| get over it | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 534_lf | ||
| hedonism | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 535_lf | ||
| hero-busting | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 536_lf | ||
| hey sports fans | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 537_lf | ||
| hyperbole | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 538_lf | ||
| hypostatization | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 539_lf | ||
| identity fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 540_lf | ||
| ineffability | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 541_lf | ||
| infotainment | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 543_lf | ||
| just a job | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 545_lf | ||
| just plain folks | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 547_lf | ||
| language control | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 548_lf | ||
| law of unintended consequences | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 549_lf | ||
| leading the witness fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 550_lf | ||
| live as though you're dying | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 551_lf | ||
| long ago and far away | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 553_lf | ||
| love bombing | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 554_lf | ||
| love it or leave it | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 555_lf | ||
| lying with statistics | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 556_lf | ||
| magical thinking | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 557_lf | ||
| mainsplaining | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 558_lf | ||
| mansplaining | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 560_lf | ||
| measurability | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 561_lf | ||
| middle of the road fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 562_lf | ||
| mind | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 563_lf | ||
| monolingual | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 567_lf | ||
| moral high ground | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 568_lf | ||
| moral licensing | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 569_lf | ||
| moral superiority | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 570_lf | ||
| mortification | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 571_lf | ||
| motivational truth | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 572_lf | ||
| moving the ball down the field | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 573_lf | ||
| name dropping | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 575_lf | ||
| name-calling | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 576_lf | ||
| narrative fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 577_lf | ||
| newspeak | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 578_lf | ||
| nihilism | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 579_lf | ||
| no discussion | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 580_lf | ||
| no pain no gain | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 581_lf | ||
| non-recognition | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 583_lf | ||
| not in my back yard (NIMBY) | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 584_lf | ||
| nothing new under the sun | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 585_lf | ||
| obscurantism | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 587_lf | ||
| olfactory rhetoric | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 588_lf | ||
| oops! | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 589_lf | ||
| othering | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 590_lf | ||
| overexplanation | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 591_lf | ||
| overgeneralization | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 592_lf | ||
| panic | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 593_lf | ||
| paralysis of analysis | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 594_lf | ||
| pars pro toto fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 595_lf | ||
| paternalism | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 597_lf | ||
| personalization | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 598_lf | ||
| plain truth fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 599_lf | ||
| plausible deniability | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 600_lf | ||
| pleasure-hating | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 602_lf | ||
| political correctness | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 603_lf | ||
| positive thinking fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 605_lf | ||
| post-truth | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 607_lf | ||
| pout | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 608_lf | ||
| procrustean fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 609_lf | ||
| prosopology | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 610_lf | ||
| reductionism | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 612_lf | ||
| refinement | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 613_lf | ||
| reifying | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 614_lf | ||
| relativizing | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 615_lf | ||
| safe place | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 617_lf | ||
| safe space | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 618_lf | ||
| salacious fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 619_lf | ||
| save the children fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 620_lf | ||
| scoring | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 623_lf | ||
| scripted message | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 624_lf | ||
| scruples | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 625_lf | ||
| self debasement | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 626_lf | ||
| self deprecation | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 628_lf | ||
| self righteousness | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 629_lf | ||
| sending the wrong message | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 630_lf | ||
| shibboleth | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 631_lf | ||
| shifting the burden of proof | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 632_lf | ||
| shopping hungry fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 633_lf | ||
| silent majority fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 634_lf | ||
| simpleton's fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 635_lf | ||
| snow job | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 637_lf | ||
| soldiers' honor fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 638_lf | ||
| space place | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 639_lf | ||
| speakee fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 640_lf | ||
| sports world fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 641_lf | ||
| standard version fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 642_lf | ||
| state actor fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 644_lf | ||
| stockholm syndrome | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 645_lf | ||
| suck it up | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 647_lf | ||
| sui generis fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 648_lf | ||
| taboo | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 649_lf | ||
| talking points | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 650_lf | ||
| there is no alternative (TINA) | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 651_lf | ||
| they're all biased | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 652_lf | ||
| they're all crooks | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 653_lf | ||
| third person effect | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 654_lf | ||
| thousand flowers fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 655_lf | ||
| throwing good money after bad | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 656_lf | ||
| tiny percentage fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 657_lf | ||
| token endorsement fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 658_lf | ||
| tone policing | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 659_lf | ||
| trust your gut | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 660_lf | ||
| truthiness | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 661_lf | ||
| tu quoque | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 662_lf | ||
| two truths | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 663_lf | ||
| two-sides fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 664_lf | ||
| venting | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 665_lf | ||
| venue | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 666_lf | ||
| voice of the voiceless | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 667_lf | ||
| we have to do something | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 669_lf | ||
| where there's smoke there's fire | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 670_lf | ||
| whistling by the graveyard | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 671_lf | ||
| wisdom of the crowd | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 673_lf | ||
| worst-case fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 675_lf | ||
| you speakee da english | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 677_lf | ||
| you talk too much | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 678_lf | ||
| zero tolerance | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 679_lf | ||
| Fordism | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 680_lf | ||
| Gitmo solution | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 681_lf | ||
| I don't want to hear it! | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 684_lf | ||
| I forgot... | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 685_lf | ||
| I'm trying my best | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 688_lf | ||
| KISS principle | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 689_lf | ||
| October surprise | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 690_lf | ||
| Wikipedia fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 692_lf | ||
| compartmentalization | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 724_lf | ||
| con artist's fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 726_lf | ||
| control voice | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 728_lf | ||
| crocodile's tears | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 729_lf | ||
| crowdsourcing | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 730_lf | ||
| dacoit's fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 732_lf | ||
| die away | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 735_lf | ||
| die away ye old forms and logic | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 736_lf | ||
| differance | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 737_lf | ||
| distraction | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 739_lf | ||
| dogmatism | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 740_lf | ||
| don't fix it | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 742_lf | ||
| emotional reasoning | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 745_lf | ||
| epistemically closed systems | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 746_lf | ||
| every revolution ends up eating its own young | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 748_lf | ||
| executive summary | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 749_lf | ||
| expect a miracle | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 751_lf | ||
| fable | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 752_lf | ||
| fake news | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 753_lf | ||
| falacia ad temperantiam | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 754_lf | ||
| falacia ad verbosium | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 755_lf | ||
| fallacy of speculation | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 757_lf | ||
| for my friends any thing | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 761_lf | ||
| getting even | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 763_lf | ||
| good simpleton | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 764_lf | ||
| grit | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 765_lf | ||
| hasty conclusion | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 767_lf | ||
| hear no evil see no evil speak no evil | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 768_lf | ||
| homophily | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 770_lf | ||
| humanitarian crisis | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 771_lf | ||
| infortainment | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 776_lf | ||
| infowars | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 777_lf | ||
| jumping to a conclusion | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 779_lf | ||
| karma is a bi**h | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 781_lf | ||
| keep it short and simple (KISS) | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 782_lf | ||
| keep it simple stupid (KISS) | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 783_lf | ||
| keeping up standards | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 784_lf | ||
| knowing full well | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 785_lf | ||
| let it be | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 786_lf | ||
| let the facts speak for themselves | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 788_lf | ||
| letting off steam | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 789_lf | ||
| lock'em up and throw away the key | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 790_lf | ||
| loose lips | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 791_lf | ||
| lost cause | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 792_lf | ||
| magic of the market | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 793_lf | ||
| making peace with one's situation | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 795_lf | ||
| marginalization of the adversary | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 796_lf | ||
| merological fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 799_lf | ||
| missing link fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 801_lf | ||
| mistaking the map for the territory | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 802_lf | ||
| monocausal fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 803_lf | ||
| mother nature | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 804_lf | ||
| muscular foreign policy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 805_lf | ||
| nirvana fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 808_lf | ||
| no negotiation | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 809_lf | ||
| noble effort | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 810_lf | ||
| noncooperation | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 812_lf | ||
| none at all is even better | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 813_lf | ||
| nonviolent civil disobedience | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 815_lf | ||
| not in my back yard | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 817_lf | ||
| obscurationism | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 818_lf | ||
| occasionally extended even to their pets! | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 819_lf | ||
| ostrich strategy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 820_lf | ||
| otherizing | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 821_lf | ||
| oversimplifying | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 822_lf | ||
| peace through strength | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 825_lf | ||
| perfect is the enemy of the good | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 826_lf | ||
| placebo effect | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 827_lf | ||
| political theater | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 830_lf | ||
| pollyanna principle fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 831_lf | ||
| poster child | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 834_lf | ||
| prejudice | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 836_lf | ||
| procrastination | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 837_lf | ||
| proof texting | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 838_lf | ||
| prosopography | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 839_lf | ||
| racism | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 842_lf | ||
| rationalization | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 845_lf | ||
| reading the roll of martyrs | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 846_lf | ||
| reciting the litany | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 847_lf | ||
| resilience doctrine | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 848_lf | ||
| root for the underdog | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 850_lf | ||
| security theater | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 851_lf | ||
| seen it all before | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 852_lf | ||
| silent treatment | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 856_lf | ||
| simple truth fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 857_lf | ||
| sin of presumption | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 858_lf | ||
| singing kumbaya | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 859_lf | ||
| sloganeering | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 860_lf | ||
| snowing them under | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 861_lf | ||
| speak no evil | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 865_lf | ||
| standardization | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 866_lf | ||
| straw figure | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 867_lf | ||
| straw person | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 868_lf | ||
| surprise surprise | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 869_lf | ||
| take names and kick butt | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 870_lf | ||
| teach the controversy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 871_lf | ||
| team player | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 872_lf | ||
| tear it all down | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 873_lf | ||
| tell me what were their names | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 874_lf | ||
| the judicial surprise | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 875_lf | ||
| the nose knows | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 876_lf | ||
| the politics of the center | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 877_lf | ||
| the squeaky wheel gets the grease | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 878_lf | ||
| there is no alternative | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 879_lf | ||
| they're all liars | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 880_lf | ||
| they're just like us | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 881_lf | ||
| they're not like us | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 882_lf | ||
| thinking with your other head | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 883_lf | ||
| three monkeys' fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 884_lf | ||
| totus pro partes fallacy | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 885_lf | ||
| trust your feelings | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 886_lf | ||
| trust your heart | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 887_lf | ||
| trust your instincts | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 888_lf | ||
| trust your intuition | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 889_lf | ||
| two wrongs make a right | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 892_lf | ||
| uniformitarianism | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 894_lf | ||
| uniformity | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 895_lf | ||
| values | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 896_lf | ||
| we can't afford to take chances | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 897_lf | ||
| we do it too | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 898_lf | ||
| what goes around comes around | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 899_lf | ||
| what were their names | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 901_lf | ||
| willful ignorance | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 902_lf | ||
| xenophobia | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 904_lf | ||
| you do it too | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 905_lf | ||
| you need to know | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-12 | 906_lf | ||
| personal attack | ad hominem argument, argumentum ad hominem, argument toward the man, attacking the person, poisoning the well | Arguing against the opposing party instead of the reasoning given by the opposing party. This might question the intelligence, credentials, or character of the opposition. A "corrupted negative argument from ethos". Subcategories include abusive and circumstantial types. A fallacy of relevance. The opposite of star power. An obverse is token endorsement. See also: guilt by association. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-13 | 002_lf |
| actions have consequences | An incorrect assertion (based on some kind of rules) that a punishment for an occurrance is instead a consequence. "A corrupt argument from ethos." (Procedures may result in eventual punishment, but that outcome is not accurately the consequence of the initial event.) | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-13 | 041_lf | |
| token endorsement | Fallacy saying that a positive statement made by an individual with a pertinent characteristic must be true because of their possession of that characteristic. For example, a claim that, just because a member of a minority group states that a person of the majority group is not bigoted against the minority group, that this must therefore be true. (It is still possible for the statement to be incorrect, despite the group membership of the person making the statement.) | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-13 | 042_lf | |
| F-bomb | cursing, obscenity, profanity | Related to Salacious Fallacy. See also Red Herring. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-13 | 086_lf |
| action bias | A tendency to act even when there is no problem or when no action would be more effective for the given problem. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-13 | 098_cb | |
| actor-observer bias | A tendency for the description of an actor's behavior to over-emphasize the observer's personality (while under-emphasizing the actor's scenario). Also, the opposite--a tendency for an actor's description of their own behavior to have the reverse pattern: over-emphasizing their own scenario while under-emphasizing the effect of their own personality. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-13 | 099_cb | |
| additive bias | A tendency to solve problems by adding things (for example, instead of by removing things). | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-13 | 100_cb | |
| agent detection bias | A tendency to assume that an actor is intentionally intervening in a scenario. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-13 | 101_cb | |
| argument toward the man | ad hominem argument, argumentum ad hominem, attacking the person, personal attack, poisoning the well | Arguing against the opposing party instead of the reasoning given by the opposing party. This might question the intelligence, credentials, or character of the opposition. A "corrupted negative argument from ethos". Subcategories include abusive and circumstantial types. A fallacy of relevance. The opposite of star power. An obverse is token endorsement. See also: guilt by association. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-13 | 393_lf | |
| argumentum ad hominem | ad hominem argument, argument toward the man, attacking the person, personal attack, poisoning the well | Arguing against the opposing party instead of the reasoning given by the opposing party. This might question the intelligence, credentials, or character of the opposition. A "corrupted negative argument from ethos". Subcategories include abusive and circumstantial types. A fallacy of relevance. The opposite of star power. An obverse is token endorsement. See also: guilt by association. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-13 | 396_lf | |
| attacking the person | ad hominem argument, argumentum ad hominem, argument toward the man, personal attack, poisoning the well | Arguing against the opposing party instead of the reasoning given by the opposing party. This might question the intelligence, credentials, or character of the opposition. A "corrupted negative argument from ethos". Subcategories include abusive and circumstantial types. A fallacy of relevance. The opposite of star power. An obverse is token endorsement. See also: guilt by association. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-13 | 402_lf | |
| poisoning the well | ad hominem argument, argumentum ad hominem, argument toward the man, attacking the person, personal attack | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-13 | 468_lf | ||
| just do it | accomplish the mission, by any means necessary, find a way, I don't care how you do it | An argumentum ad baculum (argument from force) that implies arriving at an outcome by aside morality. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-13 | 546_lf |
| reductio ad Hitlerum | ad Hitlerum | An example of ad hominem or guilt by association that invokes a specific extreme persona from history. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-13 | 611_lf |
| I don't care how you do it | accomplish the mission, by any means necessary, find a way, just do it | An argumentum ad baculum (argument from force) that implies arriving at an outcome by aside morality. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-13 | 683_lf |
| accomplish the mission | by any means necessary, find a way, I don't care how you do it, just do it | An argumentum ad baculum (argument from force) that implies arriving at an outcome by aside morality. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-13 | 694_lf |
| ad Hitleram | reductio ad Hitlerum | An example of ad hominem or guilt by association that invokes a specific extreme persona from history. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-13 | 696_lf |
| by any means necessary | accomplish the mission, find a way, I don't care how you do it, just do it | An argumentum ad baculum (argument from force) that implies arriving at an outcome by aside morality. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-13 | 723_lf |
| find a way | accomplish the mission, by any means necessary, just do it, I don't care how you do it | An argumentum ad baculum (argument from force) that implies arriving at an outcome by aside morality. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-13 | 909_lf |
| either or fallacy | all or nothing thinking, bifurcation, black and white fallacy, black/white fallacy, either/or reasoning, excluded middle, false binary, false dichotomy, false dilemma | A conclusion is reached based on there only being two possible options, when really the possibilities are not so limited. A component fallacy. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 018_lf |
| alphabet soup | The use of jargon such as acronyms, initialisms, and abbreviations consisting of letters (and possibly numbers) to impress, to build rapport, to confuse, or to obfuscate, ultimately resulting in loss of communication regarding what is being said or why an argument would be valid, and instead relying on potentially invalid shortcuts to reach a conclusion. See also: name calling. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 045_lf | |
| appeal to heaven | American exceptionalism, argumentum ad coelum, Deus vult, Gott mit uns, manifest destiny, special covenant | A fallacy based on claiming to know God's mind and wishes, which cannot really be challenged. A "deluded argument from ethos". Opposite of Job's comforter fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 048_lf |
| excluded middle | all or nothing thinking, bifurcation, black and white fallacy, black/white fallacy, either or fallacy, either/or reasoning, excluded middle, false binary, false dichotomy, false dilemma | If a little is good, then more must be better. Or, if less is good, then none is better. "A corrupted argument from logos".One opposite is excluded outliers. Another opposite is middle of the road fallacy (falacia ad temperantiam, the politics of the center, marginalization of the adversary).A conclusion is reached based on there only being two possible options, when really the possibilities are not so limited. A component fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 085_lf |
| ambiguity effect | A tendency to avoid options with outcomes that have unknown probabilities. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 102_cb | |
| anchoring bias | focalism | A tendency to rely too much on one particular thing (often the first available thing) when considering a decision. See also: common source bias, conservatism bias, functional fixedness, law of the instrument. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 103_cb |
| anthropocentric thinking | A tendency to use analogies about humans when describing other systems. An availability bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 104_cb | |
| anthropomorphism | A tendency to describe non-human things as having human traits. An availability bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 105_cb | |
| all or nothing thinking | bifurcation, black/white fallacy, black and white fallacy, either or fallacy, either/or reasoning, excluded middle, false binary, false dichotomy, false dilemma | A conclusion is reached based on there only being two possible options, when really the possibilities are not so limited. A component fallacy. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 374_lf | |
| American exceptionalism | appeal to heaven, argumentum ad coelum, Deus vult, Gott mit uns, manifest destiny, special covenant | A fallacy based on claiming to know God's mind and wishes, which cannot really be challenged. A "deluded argument from ethos". Opposite of Job's comforter fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 377_lf |
| argumentum ad coelum | American exceptionalism, appeal to heaven, Deus vult, Gott mit uns, manifest destiny, special covenant | A fallacy based on claiming to know God's mind and wishes, which cannot really be challenged. A "deluded argument from ethos". Opposite of Job's comforter fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 395_lf |
| bifurcation | all or nothing thinking, black and white fallacy, black/white fallacy, either or fallacy, either/or reasoning, excluded middle, false binary, false dichotomy, false dilemma | A conclusion is reached based on there only being two possible options, when really the possibilities are not so limited. A component fallacy. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 407_lf | |
| black and white fallacy | all or nothing thinking, bifurcation, black/white fallacy, either or fallacy, either/or reasoning, excluded middle, false binary, false dichotomy, false dilemma | A conclusion is reached based on there only being two possible options, when really the possibilities are not so limited. A component fallacy. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 409_lf | |
| black/white fallacy | all or nothing thinking, bifurcation, black and white fallacy, either or fallacy, either/or reasoning, excluded middle, false binary, false dichotomy, false dilemma | A conclusion is reached based on there only being two possible options, when really the possibilities are not so limited. A component fallacy. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 410_lf | |
| Deus vult | American exceptionalism, appeal to heaven, argumentum ad coelum, Gott mit uns, manifest destiny, special covenant | A fallacy based on claiming to know God's mind and wishes, which cannot really be challenged. A "deluded argument from ethos". Opposite of Job's comforter fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 428_lf |
| disinformation | disinformation | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 430_lf | ||
| false binary | all or nothing thinking, bifurcation, black and white fallacy, black/white fallacy, either or fallacy, either/or reasoning, excluded middle, false binary, false dilemma | A conclusion is reached based on there only being two possible options, when really the possibilities are not so limited. A component fallacy. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 436_lf | |
| false dichotomy | all or nothing thinking, bifurcation, black and white fallacy, black/white fallacy, either or fallacy, either/or reasoning, excluded middle, false binary, false dilemma | A conclusion is reached based on there only being two possible options, when really the possibilities are not so limited. A component fallacy. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 437_lf | |
| false dilemma | all or nothing thinking, bifurcation, black and white fallacy, black/white fallacy, either or fallacy, either/or reasoning, excluded middle, false binary, false dilemma | A conclusion is reached based on there only being two possible options, when really the possibilities are not so limited. A component fallacy. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 438_lf | |
| Gott mit uns | American exceptionalism, appeal to heaven, argumentum ad coelum, Deus vult, manifest destiny, special covenant | A fallacy based on claiming to know God's mind and wishes, which cannot really be challenged. A "deluded argument from ethos". Opposite of Job's comforter fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 445_lf |
| manifest destiny | American exceptionalism, appeal to heaven, argumentum ad coelum, Deus vult, Gott mit uns, special covenant | A fallacy based on claiming to know God's mind and wishes, which cannot really be challenged. A "deluded argument from ethos". Opposite of Job's comforter fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 460_lf |
| special covenant | American exceptionalism, appeal to heaven, argumentum ad coelum, Deus vult, Gott mit uns, manifest destiny | A fallacy based on claiming to know God's mind and wishes, which cannot really be challenged. A "deluded argument from ethos". Opposite of Job's comforter fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-14 | 478_lf |
| all's fair in love and war | changing the rules, moving the goalposts, nuclear option, winning isn't everything it's the only thing | Starting with certain requirements for a decision, then, when, the criteria are met, requiring a higher bar. "A fallacy of logos". | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-14 | 496_lf |
| alpha-male speech | locker-room talk, bad-boy talk | A form of "frank, unguarded or uninhibited offensive expression". A fallacy that holds that some words are excempt from criticism because they are simply the true expression of some perspective having merit due to their representing the uncensored expression of true feelings. See also: venting. See also: affective fallacy. Opposite to this are political correctness and scripted message. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-14 | 497_lf |
| bad-boy talk | alpha-male talk, locker-room talk | A form of "frank, unguarded or uninhibited offensive expression". A fallacy that holds that some words are excempt from criticism because they are simply the true expression of some perspective having merit due to their representing the uncensored expression of true feelings. See also: venting. See also: affective fallacy. Opposite to this are political correctness and scripted message. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-14 | 504_lf |
| changing the rules | all's fair in love and war, moving the goalposts, nuclear option, winning isn't everything it's the only thing | Starting with certain requirements for a decision, then, when, the criteria are met, requiring a higher bar. "A fallacy of logos". | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-14 | 513_lf |
| either/or reasoning | all or nothing thinking, bifurcation, black and white fallacy, black/white fallacy, either/or reasoning, excluded middle, false binary, false dichotomy, false dilemma | A conclusion is reached based on there only being two possible options, when really the possibilities are not so limited. A component fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-14 | 524_lf |
| locker-room talk | alpha-male talk, bad-boy talk | A form of "frank, unguarded or uninhibited offensive expression". A fallacy that holds that some words are excempt from criticism because they are simply the true expression of some perspective having merit due to their representing the uncensored expression of true feelings. See also: venting. See also: affective fallacy. Opposite to this are political correctness and scripted message. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-14 | 552_lf |
| moving the goalposts | all's fair in love and war, changing the rules, nuclear option, winning isn't everything it's the only thing | Starting with certain requirements for a decision, then, when, the criteria are met, requiring a higher bar. "A fallacy of logos". | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-14 | 574_lf |
| nuclear option | all's fair in love and war, changing the rules, moving the goalposts, winning isn't everything it's the only thing | Starting with certain requirements for a decision, then, when, the criteria are met, requiring a higher bar. "A fallacy of logos". | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-14 | 586_lf |
| winning isn't everything it's the only thing | all's fair in love and war, changing the rules, moving the goalposts, nuclear option | Starting with certain requirements for a decision, then, when, the criteria are met, requiring a higher bar. "A fallacy of logos". | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-14 | 672_lf |
| a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do | a person's got to do what a person's got to do, a woman's got to do what a woman's got to do, I've got to do what I've got to do | This fallacy draws a conclusion based on (potentially prejudiced identity or gender-based) feelings or emotion not necessarily having a foundation in logical reasoning (e.g., it is possible that they do not really have to arrive at that outcome). A form of the affective fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-14 | 693_lf |
| an abundance of caution | better safe than sorry, better to prevent than to lament, just in case | A fallacy of pessimism with reasoning based on a far-fetched, unlikely, or even entirely imaginary worst-case scenario isntead of being based on reality. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-14 | 697_lf |
| better safe than sorry | an abundance of caution, better to prevent than to lament, just in case | A fallacy of pessimism with reasoning based on a far-fetched, unlikely, or even entirely imaginary worst-case scenario isntead of being based on reality. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-14 | 709_lf |
| better to prevent than to lament | an abundance of caution, better safe than sorry, just in case | A fallacy of pessimism with reasoning based on a far-fetched, unlikely, or even entirely imaginary worst-case scenario isntead of being based on reality. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-14 | 711_lf |
| just in case | just in case | A fallacy of pessimism with reasoning based on a far-fetched, unlikely, or even entirely imaginary worst-case scenario isntead of being based on reality. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-14 | 780_lf |
| name calling | The fallacy of applying a label to an arguer and assigning or implying a conclusion based on that applied label instead of evaluating or addressing the argument at hand. A form of ad hominem. A simplified from of argumentum ad personam. | [8], [9], [11] | 2024-06-14 | 2024-06-14 | 913_lf | |
| apathetic fallacy | burnout, compassion fatigue, cynicism | The fallacy in which legitimate arguments are ignored due claimed lack of caring. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-15 | 498_lf |
| burnout | apathetic fallacy, compassion fatigue, cynicism | The fallacy in which legitimate arguments are ignored due claimed lack of caring. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-15 | 722_lf |
| compassion fatigue | apathetic fallacy, burnout, cynicism | The fallacy in which legitimate arguments are ignored due claimed lack of caring. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-15 | 725_lf |
| cynicism | apathetic fallacy, burnout, compassion fatigue | See also: pessimism bias. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-15 | 731_lf |
| guilt by association | discredit by association | A fallacy of trying to argue against a point by "evoking the negative ethos" (the negative charcteristics) of the associations of the opponent (e.g., by way of their professional or social relationships, political party, religion, ethnicity, or other group or institutional memberhip). An extreme case is: for my enemies nothing. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-16 | 093_lf |
| non sequitur | it does not follow | Syllogistic errors include undistributed middle term, non causa pro causa, and gnorantio elenchi. A component fallacy. Common examples are: affirming the consequent, denying the antecedent. | [1] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-17 | 016_lf |
| ad hominem argument | argumentum ad hominem, argument toward the man, attacking the person, personal attack, poisoning the well | Arguing against the opposing party instead of the reasoning given by the opposing party. This might question the intelligence, credentials, or character of the opposition. A "corrupted negative argument from ethos". Subcategories include abusive and circumstantial types. A fallacy of relevance. The opposite of star power. An obverse is token endorsement. See also: guilt by association. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-19 | 495_lf |
| genetic fallacy | A fallacy of claiming something as untrustworthy due to its "racial, geographic, or ethnic origin". A fallacy of relevance. Related to ad hominem, personal attack. | [1] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-21 | 004_lf | |
| appeal to improper authority | argument from modesty, appeal to authority, appeal to improper authority, argumentum ad verecundium, argument from that which is improper | A fallacy of not "evaluating the...argument on its own merits" and instead simply accepting the conclusion of an individual who may be an expert in a field but whose expertise is unrelated to the argument. A specific form of appeal to improper authority. A subcategory is appeal to biased authority. A fallacy of relevance. | [1], [2] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-21 | 006_lf |
| appeal to biased authority | A fallacy of simply accepting the conclusion of an individual who may be an expert in a field but "who may have professional or personal motivations that render his professional judgement suspect". A specific form of appeal to improper authority. | [1] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-21 | 038_lf | |
| angelism | A fallacy of "falsely claiming that one is capable of objective reasoning and judgment without emotion". In other words, "falsely claiming for oneself a viewpoint of...disinterested objectivity or pretending to place onself far above all...bias." Related to affective fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-21 | 043_lf | |
| appeal to novelty | appeal to novelty, bad old days, early adopter's fallacy, pro-innovation bias, recency bias | A fallacy that a view or other thing must be correct or better because it is new or recent. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-21 | 051_lf |
| apophenia | A "tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-21 | 107_cb | |
| recency bias | appeal to novelty, bad old days, early adopter's fallacy, pro-innovation bias, recency bias | A fallacy that a view or other thing must be correct or better because it is new or recent. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-21 | 297_cb |
| appeal to authority | argument from modesty, appeal to authority, appeal to improper authority, argumentum ad verecundium, argument from that which is improper | A fallacy of not "evaluating the...argument on its own merits" and instead simply accepting the conclusion of an individual who may be an expert in a field but whose expertise is unrelated to the argument. A specific form of appeal to improper authority. A subcategory is appeal to biased authority. A fallacy of relevance. | [1], [2] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-21 | 378_lf |
| argument from modesty | argument from modesty, appeal to authority, appeal to improper authority, argumentum ad verecundium, argument from that which is improper | A fallacy of not "evaluating the...argument on its own merits" and instead simply accepting the conclusion of an individual who may be an expert in a field but whose expertise is unrelated to the argument. A specific form of appeal to improper authority. A subcategory is appeal to biased authority. A fallacy of relevance. | [1], [2] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-21 | 386_lf |
| argumentum ad verecundium | argument from modesty, appeal to authority, appeal to improper authority, argumentum ad verecundium, argument from that which is improper | A fallacy of not "evaluating the...argument on its own merits" and instead simply accepting the conclusion of an individual who may be an expert in a field but whose expertise is unrelated to the argument. A specific form of appeal to improper authority. A subcategory is appeal to biased authority. A fallacy of relevance. | [1], [2] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-21 | 400_lf |
| bad old days | appeal to novelty, bad old days, early adopter's fallacy, pro-innovation bias, recency bias | A fallacy that a view or other thing must be correct or better because it is new or recent. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-21 | 405_lf | |
| early adopter's fallacy | appeal to novelty, bad old days, early adopter's fallacy, pro-innovation bias, recency bias | A fallacy that a view or other thing must be correct or better because it is new or recent. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-21 | 431_lf | |
| pro-innovation bias | appeal to novelty, bad old days, early adopter's fallacy, pro-innovation bias, recency bias | A fallacy that a view or other thing must be correct or better because it is new or recent. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-21 | 470_lf | |
| faulty use of quotes | devil quotes scripture | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-21 | 531_lf | |
| star power | eminence-based practice, falacia ad verecundiam, faulty use of authority, questionable authority, star power, testimonial | A fallacy in which arguments "are granted fame and validity or condemed to obscurity soley by whoever may be the reigning stars or premier journals of the profession or discpline at the moment". A "corrupt argument from ethos". Includes: faulty use of quotes. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-21 | 643_lf |
| devil quotes scripture | faulty use of quotes | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-21 | 734_lf | |
| eminence-based practice | eminence-based practice, falacia ad verecundiam, faulty use of authority, questionable authority, star power, testimonial | A fallacy in which arguments "are granted fame and validity or condemed to obscurity soley by whoever may be the reigning stars or premier journals of the profession or discpline at the moment". A "corrupt argument from ethos". Includes: faulty use of quotes. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-21 | 744_lf |
| falacia ad verecundiam | eminence-based practice, falacia ad verecundiam, faulty use of authority, questionable authority, star power, testimonial | A fallacy in which arguments "are granted fame and validity or condemed to obscurity soley by whoever may be the reigning stars or premier journals of the profession or discpline at the moment". A "corrupt argument from ethos". Includes: faulty use of quotes. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-21 | 756_lf |
| faulty use of authority | eminence-based practice, falacia ad verecundiam, faulty use of authority, questionable authority, star power, testimonial | A fallacy in which arguments "are granted fame and validity or condemed to obscurity soley by whoever may be the reigning stars or premier journals of the profession or discpline at the moment". A "corrupt argument from ethos". Includes: faulty use of quotes. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-21 | 759_lf |
| questionable authority | eminence-based practice, falacia ad verecundiam, faulty use of authority, questionable authority, star power, testimonial | A fallacy in which arguments "are granted fame and validity or condemed to obscurity soley by whoever may be the reigning stars or premier journals of the profession or discpline at the moment". A "corrupt argument from ethos". Includes: faulty use of quotes. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-21 | 840_lf |
| discredit by association | guilt by association | A fallacy of trying to argue against a point by "evoking the negative ethos" (the negative charcteristics) of the associations of the opponent (e.g., by way of their professional or social relationships, political party, religion, ethnicity, or other group or institutional memberhip). An extreme case is: for my enemies nothing. | 2024-06-16 | 2024-06-21 | 915_lf | |
| testimonial | eminence-based practice, falacia ad verecundiam, faulty use of authority, questionable authority, star power, testimonial | A fallacy in which arguments "are granted fame and validity or condemed to obscurity soley by whoever may be the reigning stars or premier journals of the profession or discpline at the moment". A "corrupt argument from ethos". Includes: faulty use of quotes. | [3] | 2024-06-21 | 2024-06-21 | 916_lf |
| appeal to nature | appeal to nature, biologizing, green fallacy | A fallacy that just because something is natural, therefore "it has to be good, healthy, and beneficial". A "contemporary romantic fallacy of ethos". See also: argument from natural law. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-23 | 049_lf |
| biologizing | appeal to nature, biologizing, green fallacy | A fallacy that just because something is natural, therefore "it has to be good, healthy, and beneficial". A "contemporary romantic fallacy of ethos". See also: argument from natural law. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-23 | 408_lf | |
| green fallacy | appeal to nature, biologizing, green fallacy | A fallacy that just because something is natural, therefore "it has to be good, healthy, and beneficial". A "contemporary romantic fallacy of ethos". See also: argument from natural law. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-23 | 446_lf | |
| appeal to emotion | affective fallacy, appeal to emotion, appeal to pity, argument from pity, argumentum ad misericordiam, emotion over reflection, follow your heart, playing to emotions, romantic fallacy | "An emotional appeal to what should be a logical issue". "Opposite to this is...chosen emotion fallacy. Often, "a fallacy of encouragement to root of the underdog regardless of the issues at hand". "A corrupt argument from pathos." A fallacy of relevance. Closely related to angelism. "Opposite to this is...chosen emotion fallacy." Opposite of: appeal to rigor. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-24 | 007_lf |
| appeal to pity | affective fallacy, appeal to emotion, appeal to pity, argument from pity, argumentum ad misericordiam, emotion over reflection, follow your heart, playing to emotions, romantic fallacy | "An emotional appeal to what should be a logical issue". "Opposite to this is...chosen emotion fallacy. Often, "a fallacy of encouragement to root of the underdog regardless of the issues at hand". "A corrupt argument from pathos." A fallacy of relevance. Closely related to angelism. "Opposite to this is...chosen emotion fallacy." Opposite of: appeal to rigor. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-24 | 050_lf |
| playing to emotions | affective fallacy, appeal to emotion, appeal to pity, argument from pity, argumentum ad misericordiam, emotion over reflection, follow your heart, playing to emotions, romantic fallacy | "An emotional appeal to what should be a logical issue". "Opposite to this is...chosen emotion fallacy. Often, "a fallacy of encouragement to root of the underdog regardless of the issues at hand". "A corrupt argument from pathos." A fallacy of relevance. Closely related to angelism. "Opposite to this is...chosen emotion fallacy." Opposite of: appeal to rigor. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-24 | 106_cb |
| affective fallacy | affective fallacy, appeal to emotion, appeal to pity, argument from pity, argumentum ad misericordiam, emotion over reflection, follow your heart, playing to emotions, romantic fallacy | "An emotional appeal to what should be a logical issue". "Opposite to this is...chosen emotion fallacy. Often, "a fallacy of encouragement to root of the underdog regardless of the issues at hand". "A corrupt argument from pathos." A fallacy of relevance. Closely related to angelism. "Opposite to this is...chosen emotion fallacy." Opposite of: appeal to rigor. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-24 | 373_lf |
| argument from pity | affective fallacy, appeal to emotion, appeal to pity, argument from pity, argumentum ad misericordiam, emotion over reflection, follow your heart, playing to emotions, romantic fallacy | "An emotional appeal to what should be a logical issue". "Opposite to this is...chosen emotion fallacy. Often, "a fallacy of encouragement to root of the underdog regardless of the issues at hand". "A corrupt argument from pathos." A fallacy of relevance. Closely related to angelism. "Opposite to this is...chosen emotion fallacy." Opposite of: appeal to rigor. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-24 | 388_lf |
| argumentum ad misericordiam | affective fallacy, appeal to emotion, appeal to pity, argument from pity, argumentum ad misericordiam, emotion over reflection, follow your heart, playing to emotions, romantic | "An emotional appeal to what should be a logical issue". "Opposite to this is...chosen emotion fallacy. Often, "a fallacy of encouragement to root of the underdog regardless of the issues at hand". "A corrupt argument from pathos." A fallacy of relevance. Closely related to angelism. "Opposite to this is...chosen emotion fallacy." Opposite of: appeal to rigor. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-24 | 398_lf |
| emotion over reflection | affective fallacy, appeal to emotion, appeal to pity, argument from pity, argumentum ad misericordiam, emotion over reflection, follow your heart, playing to emotions, romantic fallacy | "An emotional appeal to what should be a logical issue". "Opposite to this is...chosen emotion fallacy. Often, "a fallacy of encouragement to root of the underdog regardless of the issues at hand". "A corrupt argument from pathos." A fallacy of relevance. Closely related to angelism. "Opposite to this is...chosen emotion fallacy." Opposite of: appeal to rigor. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-24 | 432_lf |
| follow your heart | affective fallacy, appeal to emotion, appeal to pity, argument from pity, argumentum ad misericordiam, emotion over reflection, follow your heart, playing to emotions, romantic | "An emotional appeal to what should be a logical issue". "Opposite to this is...chosen emotion fallacy. Often, "a fallacy of encouragement to root of the underdog regardless of the issues at hand". "A corrupt argument from pathos." A fallacy of relevance. Closely related to angelism. "Opposite to this is...chosen emotion fallacy." Opposite of: appeal to rigor. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-24 | 440_lf |
| romantic fallacy | affective fallacy, appeal to emotion, appeal to pity, argument from pity, argumentum ad misericordiam, emotion over reflection, follow your heart, playing to emotions, romantic fallacy | "An emotional appeal to what should be a logical issue". "Opposite to this is...chosen emotion fallacy. Often, "a fallacy of encouragement to root of the underdog regardless of the issues at hand". "A corrupt argument from pathos." A fallacy of relevance. Closely related to angelism. "Opposite to this is...chosen emotion fallacy." Opposite of: appeal to rigor. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-24 | 475_lf |
| appeal to tradition | appeal to tradition, argumentum ad traditionem, argumentum ad antiquitatem, back in those good times, conservative bias, good old days | A fallacy of holding a position as correct or a thing (scenario or deed) as good because it has always been that way or was that way long ago (and might still "serve one particular group very well"). A fallacy of relevance. A "corrupted argument from ethos" (from the past). Often related in time to the audience's young years, but not prior. Opposite of: appeal to novelty, bad old days, early adopter's fallacy, pro-innovation bias, recency bias. | [1], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-26 | 005_lf |
| irrelevant conclusion | arguing beside the point, ignorantio elenchi, ignoring the issue, irrelevant conclusion | A fallacy of switching attention to a different issue (which might be a valid issue but is unrelated to the topic at hand). A component fallacy. Similar to: begging the question. A common form: the red herring. Another example: tu quoque, and you too. | [1], [2] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-26 | 014_lf |
| appeasement | appeasement, assertiveness, I know my rights, squeaky wheel gets the grease | A fallacy of obtaining a result not through argument but through the audience's willingness to give in so that the opposition will simply be satisfied, quieter, or no longer a nuisance. Common in public agencies, education, and retail. Sometimes promoted as a practical, nonviolent way for groups to promote change. See also: bribery. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-26 | 052_lf |
| arguing beside the point | arguing beside the point, ignorantio elenchi, ignoring the issue, irrelevant conclusion | A fallacy of switching attention to a different issue (which might be a valid issue but is unrelated to the topic at hand). A component fallacy. Similar to: begging the question. A common form: the red herring. Another example: tu quoque, and you too. | [1], [2] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-26 | 381_lf |
| argumentum ad antiquitatem | appeal to tradition, argumentum ad traditionem, argumentum ad antiquitatem, back in those good times, conservative bias, good old days | A fallacy of holding a position as correct or a thing (scenario or deed) as good because it has always been that way or was that way long ago (and might still "serve one particular group very well"). A fallacy of relevance. A "corrupted argument from ethos" (from the past). Often related in time to the audience's young years, but not prior. Opposite of: appeal to novelty, bad old days, early adopter's fallacy, pro-innovation bias, recency bias. | [1], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-26 | 394_lf |
| argumentum ad traditionem | appeal to tradition, argumentum ad traditionem, argumentum ad antiquitatem, back in those good times, conservative bias, good old days | A fallacy of holding a position as correct or a thing (scenario or deed) as good because it has always been that way or was that way long ago (and might still "serve one particular group very well"). A fallacy of relevance. A "corrupted argument from ethos" (from the past). Often related in time to the audience's young years, but not prior. Opposite of: appeal to novelty, bad old days, early adopter's fallacy, pro-innovation bias, recency bias. | [1], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-26 | 399_lf |
| assertiveness | appeasement, assertiveness, I know my rights, squeaky wheel gets the grease | A fallacy of obtaining a result not through argument but through the audience's willingness to give in so that the opposition will simply be satisfied, quieter, or no longer a nuisance. Common in public agencies, education, and retail. Sometimes promoted as a practical, nonviolent way for groups to promote change. See also: bribery. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-26 | 401_lf |
| back in those good times | appeal to tradition, argumentum ad traditionem, argumentum ad antiquitatem, back in those good times, conservative bias, good old days | A fallacy of holding a position as correct or a thing (scenario or deed) as good because it has always been that way or was that way long ago (and might still "serve one particular group very well"). A fallacy of relevance. A "corrupted argument from ethos" (from the past). Often related in time to the audience's young years, but not prior. Opposite of: appeal to novelty, bad old days, early adopter's fallacy, pro-innovation bias, recency bias. | [1], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-26 | 404_lf |
| conservative bias | appeal to tradition, argumentum ad traditionem, argumentum ad antiquitatem, back in those good times, conservative bias, good old days | A fallacy of holding a position as correct or a thing (scenario or deed) as good because it has always been that way or was that way long ago (and might still "serve one particular group very well"). A fallacy of relevance. A "corrupted argument from ethos" (from the past). Often related in time to the audience's young years, but not prior. Opposite of: appeal to novelty, bad old days, early adopter's fallacy, pro-innovation bias, recency bias. | [1], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-26 | 422_lf |
| good old days | appeal to tradition, argumentum ad traditionem, argumentum ad antiquitatem, back in those good times, conservative bias, good old days | A fallacy of holding a position as correct or a thing (scenario or deed) as good because it has always been that way or was that way long ago (and might still "serve one particular group very well"). A fallacy of relevance. A "corrupted argument from ethos" (from the past). Often related in time to the audience's young years, but not prior. Opposite of: appeal to novelty, bad old days, early adopter's fallacy, pro-innovation bias, recency bias. | [1], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-26 | 444_lf |
| I know my rights | appeasement, assertiveness, I know my rights, squeaky wheel gets the grease | A fallacy of obtaining a result not through argument but through the audience's willingness to give in so that the opposition will simply be satisfied, quieter, or no longer a nuisance. Common in public agencies, education, and retail. Sometimes promoted as a practical, nonviolent way for groups to promote change. See also: bribery. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-26 | 449_lf |
| ignorantio elenchi | arguing beside the point, ignorantio elenchi, ignoring the issue, irrelevant conclusion | A fallacy of switching attention to a different issue (which might be a valid issue but is unrelated to the topic at hand). A component fallacy. Similar to: begging the question. A common form: the red herring. Another example: tu quoque, and you too. | [1], [2] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-26 | 450_lf |
| ignoring the issue | arguing beside the point, ignorantio elenchi, ignoring the issue, irrelevant conclusion | A fallacy of switching attention to a different issue (which might be a valid issue but is unrelated to the topic at hand). A component fallacy. Similar to: begging the question. A common form: the red herring. Another example: tu quoque, and you too. | [1], [2] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-26 | 451_lf |
| squeaky wheel gets the grease | appeasement, assertiveness, i know my rights, squeaky wheel gets the grease | A fallacy of obtaining a result not through argument but through the audience's willingness to give in so that the opposition will simply be satisfied, quieter, or no longer a nuisance. Common in public agencies, education, and retail. Sometimes promoted as a practical, nonviolent way for groups to promote change. See also: bribery. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-26 | 479_lf |
| so what | appeal to privacy, mind your own business, MYOB, none of yer beeswax, so what, you're not the boss of me | A fallacy of preventing discussion of one's point by "drawing a phony curtian of privacy around oneself and one's actions". A counterpart is: heart of darkness syndrome, I think we're alone now, nobody will ever know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 499_lf |
| appeal to rigor | A fallacy arguing based on mercilessness (showing no fear or pity). "Often based on machismo or on manipulating an audience's fear." Can apply to "politically-motivated or elitist calls for academic rigor". Can apply to criticism of developmental or remedial classes, open admissions, dumbing down, and grade inflation. Opposite of: affective fallacy, appeal to emotion, appeal to pity, argument from pity, argumentum ad misericordiam, emotion over reflection, follow your heart, playing to emotions, romantic fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 500_lf | |
| bribery | bribery, financial incentive, material incentive, material persuasion | A fallacy of obtaining a position through "gifts or favors". Often does not stick unless bribes continue. The reverse of: argumentum ad baculum, appeal to force, argument from the club (stick), argument from force, might-makes-right. See also: appeasement, assertiveness, I know my rights, squeaky wheel gets the grease. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 510_lf |
| information cascade | A fallacy in which one echoes others' opinions (often online), even when their own opinions or information exposure contradicts that position. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 542_lf | |
| mala fides | arguing in bad faith, mala fides, sophism | A fallacy of putting forth an argument that the argue knows is invalid. Includes: motivational truth, demagogy, campaign promises, self deception, whistling by the graveyward. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 559_lf |
| MYOB | appeal to privacy, mind your own business, MYOB, none of yer beeswax, so what, you're not the boss of me | A fallacy of preventing discussion of one's point by "drawing a phony curtian of privacy around oneself and one's actions". A counterpart is: heart of darkness syndrome, I think we're alone now, nobody will ever know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 565_lf |
| nobody will ever know | heart of darkness syndrome, I think we're alone now, nobody will ever know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas | A fallacy holding that "one may freely commit immoral, selfish, negative or evil acts at will without expecting any of the normal consequences or punishment" "just because nobody important is looking (or because one is on vacation, or away in college, or overseas)". A counterpart to: appeal to privacy, mind your own business, MYOB, none of yer beeswax, so what, you're not the boss of me | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 582_lf |
| I do it too | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 682_lf | ||
| I think we're alone now | heart of darkness syndrome, I think we're alone now, nobody will ever know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas | A fallacy holding that "one may freely commit immoral, selfish, negative or evil acts at will without expecting any of the normal consequences or punishment" "just because nobody important is looking (or because one is on vacation, or away in college, or overseas)". A counterpart to: appeal to privacy, mind your own business, MYOB, none of yer beeswax, so what, you're not the boss of me | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 687_lf |
| appeal to privacy | appeal to privacy, mind your own business, MYOB, none of yer beeswax, so what, you're not the boss of me | A fallacy of preventing discussion of one's point by "drawing a phony curtian of privacy around oneself and one's actions". A counterpart is: heart of darkness syndrome, I think we're alone now, nobody will ever know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 699_lf |
| arguing in bad faith | arguing in bad faith, mala fides, sophism | A fallacy of putting forth an argument that the argue knows is invalid. Includes: motivational truth, demagogy, campaign promises, self deception, whistling by the graveyward. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 700_lf |
| financial incentive | bribery, financial incentive, material incentive, material persuasion | A fallacy of obtaining a position through "gifts or favors". Often does not stick unless bribes continue. The reverse of: argumentum ad baculum, appeal to force, argument from the club (stick), argument from force, might-makes-right. See also: appeasement, assertiveness, I know my rights, squeaky wheel gets the grease. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 760_lf |
| heart of darkness syndrome | heart of darkness syndrome, I think we're alone now, nobody will ever know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas | A fallacy holding that "one may freely commit immoral, selfish, negative or evil acts at will without expecting any of the normal consequences or punishment" "just because nobody important is looking (or because one is on vacation, or away in college, or overseas)". A counterpart to: appeal to privacy, mind your own business, MYOB, none of yer beeswax, so what, you're not the boss of me | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 769_lf |
| material incentive | bribery, financial incentive, material incentive, material persuasion | A fallacy of obtaining a position through "gifts or favors". Often does not stick unless bribes continue. The reverse of: argumentum ad baculum, appeal to force, argument from the club (stick), argument from force, might-makes-right. See also: appeasement, assertiveness, I know my rights, squeaky wheel gets the grease. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 797_lf |
| material persuasion | bribery, financial incentive, material incentive, material persuasion | A fallacy of obtaining a position through "gifts or favors". Often does not stick unless bribes continue. The reverse of: argumentum ad baculum, appeal to force, argument from the club (stick), argument from force, might-makes-right. See also: appeasement, assertiveness, I know my rights, squeaky wheel gets the grease. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 798_lf |
| mind your own business | appeal to privacy, mind your own business, MYOB, none of yer beeswax, so what, you're not the boss of me | A fallacy of preventing discussion of one's point by "drawing a phony curtian of privacy around oneself and one's actions". A counterpart is: heart of darkness syndrome, I think we're alone now, nobody will ever know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 800_lf |
| none of yer beeswax | appeal to privacy, mind your own business, MYOB, none of yer beeswax, so what, you're not the boss of me | A fallacy of preventing discussion of one's point by "drawing a phony curtian of privacy around oneself and one's actions". A counterpart is: heart of darkness syndrome, I think we're alone now, nobody will ever know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 814_lf |
| sophism | arguing in bad faith, mala fides, sophism | A fallacy of putting forth an argument that the argue knows is invalid. Includes: motivational truth, demagogy, campaign promises, self deception, whistling by the graveyward. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 864_lf |
| what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas | heart of darkness syndrome, I think we're alone now, nobody will ever know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas | A fallacy holding that "one may freely commit immoral, selfish, negative or evil acts at will without expecting any of the normal consequences or punishment" "just because nobody important is looking (or because one is on vacation, or away in college, or overseas)". A counterpart to: appeal to privacy, mind your own business, MYOB, none of yer beeswax, so what, you're not the boss of me | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 900_lf |
| you're not the boss of me | appeal to privacy, mind your own business, MYOB, none of yer beeswax, so what, you're not the boss of me | A fallacy of preventing discussion of one's point by "drawing a phony curtian of privacy around oneself and one's actions". A counterpart is: heart of darkness syndrome, I think we're alone now, nobody will ever know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-26 | 907_lf |
| argument from adverse consequences | argument from adverse consequences, argument from consequences, outcome bias | A fallacy of claiming that something cannot be true because, if it were true, that would be bad or have a negative effect (while in reality the validity of the claim does not actually depend on the positive or negative impact of the claims). A fallacy of relevance. (See also: outcome bias. Do not confuse with: actions have consequences. | [1], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-28 | 008_lf |
| argument from personal incredulity | argument from incredulity, argument from personal incredulity | A fallacy of asserting that an argument must not be true just because one personally does not understand it or cannot grasp its technical aspects. A fallacy of relevance. | [1], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-28 | 009_lf |
| argument from consequences | argument from adverse consequences, argument from consequences, outcome bias | A fallacy of claiming that something cannot be true because, if it were true, that would be bad or have a negative effect (while in reality the validity of the claim does not actually depend on the positive or negative impact of the claims). A fallacy of relevance. (See also: outcome bias. Do not confuse with: actions have consequences. | [1], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-28 | 053_lf |
| outcome bias | argument from consequences, outcome bias | As a logical fallacy (outcome bias): a fallacy of claiming that something cannot be true because, if it were true, that would be bad or have a negative effect (while in reality the validity of the claim does not actually depend on the positive or negative impact of the claims). A fallacy of relevance. (See also: outcome bias. Do not confuse with: actions have consequences.As a cognitive bias (outcome bias): a fallacy "to judge a decision by its eventual outcome instead of the quality of the decision at the time it was made." | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-28 | 268_cb_lf |
| argument from incredulity | argument from incredulity, argument from personal incredulity | A fallacy of asserting that an argument must not be true just because one personally does not understand it or cannot grasp its technical aspects. | [1], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-06-28 | 385_lf |
| argument from motives | argument from motives, questioning motives | A fallacy of claiming a point to be false simply on account of improper or evil motives of the person making the claim. See also: moral licensing. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-28 | 501_lf |
| questioning motives | argument from motives, questioning motives | A fallacy of claiming a point to be false simply on account of improper or evil motives of the person making the claim. See also: moral licensing. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-06-28 | 841_lf |
| argumentum ad populum | argument from common sense, argument to the people, argumentum ad populum, appeal to popular opinion, bandwagon, bandwagon fallacy | A fallacy claiming that something is true because it is believed by most people (or by "everyone," "the people," "the majority" or "someone in power who has widespread backing"). A fallacy of relevance. Sub-approaches can include bandwagon ("everyone's doing it"); patriotic ("it is patriotic"); snob "the best people are doing it"; and covering oneself with the cross ("it's Christian"). Can include: lying with statistics. A modern form is: information cascade. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 003_lf |
| special pleading | big but fallacy, special pleading | A fallacy of stating "a generally-accepted principle and then directly negating it with a 'but'. Often detailed as a special case "supposedly exempt from the usual rules of law, logic, morality, ethics or even credibility". Closely related to: contradictory premises. A component fallacy. | [1], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 022_lf |
| argument from the negative | argumentum ad ignorantiam | Often interchangeable with Argumentum Ad ignorantiam. A fallacy of omission. | [1] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 030_lf |
| appeal to a lack of evidence | appeal to a lack of evidence, appeal to ignorance, argument from ignorance, argumentum ad ignorantiam | A fallacy using lack of knowledge to arrive at a conclusion. One might might say that because a claim cannot be disproven, therefore the opposite must be true. Or, since we do not know (or cannot know, or cannot prove) something, then it must be true (or false). A fallacy of omission. Includes attacking the evidence, whataboutism, and missing link. See also: a priori argument, appealing to closure, deliberate ignorance, simpleton's fallacy, argumentum ex silentio. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 031_lf |
| alternative truth | alt facts, alternate facts, alternative truth, counterknowledge, disinformation, information pollution | A fallacy holding that objective facts and truth cannot really exist, are not durable, or are really subjective. A "fallacy of logos rooted in postmodernism". Related to: big lie technique. See also: gaslighting, blind loyalty, big brain little brain fallacy, two truths. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 046_lf |
| attacking the evidence | See also: appeal to a lack of evidence, appeal to ignorance, argumentum ad ignorantiam, and argument from ignorance. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 054_lf | |
| missing link | See also: appeal to a lack of evidence, appeal to ignorance, argumentum ad ignorantiam, argument from ignorance. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 056_lf | |
| argumentum ad mysteriam | argument from mystery, argumentum ad mysteriam, mystagogy | A fallacy in which some "facts, evidence, practices or arguments" gain weight due to a "quasi-hypnotic effect" that "can often persuade more strongly than any logical argument" derived from special sounds, postures, clothing, rituals, recitations, chants, ancient languages, or other effects introducing a sense of the unknown. Example: long ago and far away. See also: esoteric knowledge. An obverse: standard version fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 060_lf |
| argumentum ex silentio | argument from silence | A fallacy in which it is claimed that, just because the currently available knowledge or evidence cannot prove anything about a claim, therefore this in itself proves that status of the claim as true or false (whereas, really, additional evidence or facts could be sought). | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 061_lf |
| availability bias | availability bias, availability heuristic | Related: hyperbole, magnification, catastrophizing. See also: anchoring bias, attention bias, attentional bias, availability bias, focalism. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 062_lf |
| big brain little brain | big brain little brain, führerprinzip, mad leader disease | A fallacy in which a person in a leadership or authority position (a work boss, military commander, or some sort of religious, cult, or group leader) tells people to think not with their little brains (the brain in their head) but instead with their big brain (the leader's brain). An "extreme example of the blind loyalty fallacy". Sometimes expressed positively in that the leader takes (moral) responsibilty for decisions. The opposite is: plausible deniability. See also: just do it, gaslighting. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 063_lf |
| default bias | acquiescence, better the devil you know than the devil you don't, deal with it, default bias, get used to it, if it ain't broke don't fix it, it is what it is, let it be let it be, making one's peace with the situation, normalization of evil, this is the best of all possible worlds, whatever is is right | The fallacy that just because something is the current state that is therefore the preferred state. Opposite of: nihilism. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 073_lf |
| deliberate ignorance | closed-mindedness, motivated ignorance, tuning out, hear no evil speak no evil, three monkeys fallacy, I don't want to hear it | See also: Trust Your Gut, Confirmation Bias, Third Person Effect, They’re All Crooks, Simpletons Fallacy, Positive Thinking Fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 075_lf |
| association fallacy | A cognitive bias and formal logical fallacy in which it is asserted that "properties of one thing must also be properties of another thing, if both things belong to the same group". A social bias. Includes: authority bias, cheerleader effect, halo effect. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 108_cb_lf | |
| assumed similarity bias | A cognitive bias in which one "assumes that others have more traits in common with them than those others actually do". A social bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 109_cb | |
| attention bias | attentional bias | A tendency for perception to be influenced by thought repetition. See also: anchoring bias, availability bias, availability heuristic, focalism. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 110_cb |
| attribute substitution | A cognitive bias in which "a judgment has to be made (of a target attribute) that is computationally complex, and instead a more easily calculated heuristic attribute is substituted" in which the substitution is thought to take place automatically instead of with self-awarene reflection. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 111_cb | |
| authority bias | A tendency to "attribute greater accuracy to the opinion of an authority figure (unrelated to its content) and be more influenced by that opinion". A social bias. A form of association fallacy. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 112_cb | |
| automation bias | A bias in which ones depends too much on automated systems that "can lead to erroneous automated information overriding correct decisions". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 113_cb | |
| availability bias | availability bias, availability heuristic | A cognitive bias in which one has a greater chance of "recalling recent, nearby, or otherwise immediately available examples", and the assigning of "importance to those examples" over others. Also, "the natural tendency to give undue attention and importance to information that is immediately available at hand, particularly the first or last information received". A fallacy of logos. A memory bias. Related: hyperbole, magnification, catastrophizing. See also: anchoring bias, attention bias, attentional bias, focalism. | [3], [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 114_cb |
| availability cascade | A cognitive bias consisting of "a self-reinforcing process in which a collective belief gains more and more plausibility through its increasing repetition in public discourse". A conformity bias. A social bias. See also: availability heuristic. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 115_cb | |
| availability heuristic | availability bias, availability heuristic | A cognitive bias in which one has a greater chance of "recalling recent, nearby, or otherwise immediately available examples", and the assigning of "importance to those examples" over others. Also, "the natural tendency to give undue attention and importance to information that is immediately available at hand, particularly the first or last information received". A fallacy of logos. A memory bias. Related: hyperbole, magnification, catastrophizing. See also: anchoring bias, attention bias, attentional bias, focalism. | [3], [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 116_cb |
| Baader–Meinhof phenomenon | Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, frequency illusion | A cognitive bias in which "once something has been noticed, then every instance of that thing is noticed, leading to the belief it has a high frequency of occurrence". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 117_cb |
| backfire effect | A cognitive bias in which one strengthens a prior (e.g., current) belief when coming across evidence to the contrary. (The "disconfirming evidence" has the opposite of its logical effect on the belief-holder.) A form of confirmation bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 118_cb | |
| bandwagon effect | A cognitive bias in which people tend "do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the same". See also: groupthink and herd behavior as concepts in social psychology. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 119_cb | |
| Barnum effect | Barnum effect, Forer effect | A tendency "for individuals to give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically for them, but are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people". A form of egocentric bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 120_cb |
| base rate fallacy | base rate fallacy, base rate neglect | A tendency "to ignore general information and focus on information only pertaining to the specific case, even when the general information is more important". A form of extension neglect. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 121_cb |
| belief bias | An "effect where someone's evaluation of the logical strength of an argument is biased by the believability of the conclusion". Categorized as a truth judgement bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 122_cb | |
| Berkson's paradox | A "tendency to misinterpret statistical experiments involving conditional probabilities". Categorized as a cognitive bias and a logical fallacy. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 124_cb_lf | |
| better-than-average effect | better-than-average effect, illusory superiority, Lake Wobegon effect, superiority bias | A "tendency to overestimate one's desirable qualities, and underestimate undesirable qualities, relative to other people". A form of egocentric bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 125_cb |
| bias blind spot | A "tendency to see oneself as less biased than other people, or to be able to identify more cognitive biases in others than in oneself." A form of egocentric bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 126_cb | |
| bizarreness effect | A bias in which "bizarre material is better remembered than common material". A form of memory bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 127_cb | |
| egocentric bias | A "tendency to rely too heavily on one's own perspective and/or have a different perception of oneself relative to others". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 165_cb | |
| frequency illusion | Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, frequency illusion | A cognitive bias in which "once something has been noticed, then every instance of that thing is noticed, leading to the belief it has a high frequency of occurrence". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 184_cb |
| halo effect | A social bias. A form of association fallacy. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 199_cb | |
| illusory superiority | better-than-average effect, illusory superiority, Lake Wobegon effect, superiority bias | A "tendency to overestimate one's desirable qualities, and underestimate undesirable qualities, relative to other people". A form of egocentric bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 221_cb |
| Lake Wobegon effect | better-than-average effect, illusory superiority, Lake Wobegon effect, superiority bias | A "tendency to overestimate one's desirable qualities, and underestimate undesirable qualities, relative to other people". A form of egocentric bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 234_cb |
| superiority bias | better-than-average effect, illusory superiority, Lake Wobegon effect, superiority bias | A "tendency to overestimate one's desirable qualities, and underestimate undesirable qualities, relative to other people". A form of egocentric bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 337_cb |
| alt facts | alt facts, alternate facts, alternative truth, counterknowledge, disinformation, information pollution | A fallacy holding that objective facts and truth cannot really exist, are not durable, or are really subjective. A "fallacy of logos rooted in postmodernism". Related to: big lie technique. See also: gaslighting, blind loyalty, big brain little brain fallacy, two truths. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 375_lf | |
| alternate facts | alt facts, alternate facts, alternative truth, counterknowledge, disinformation, information pollution | A fallacy holding that objective facts and truth cannot really exist, are not durable, or are really subjective. A "fallacy of logos rooted in postmodernism". Related to: big lie technique. See also: gaslighting, blind loyalty, big brain little brain fallacy, two truths. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 376_lf | |
| appeal to ignorance | appeal to a lack of evidence, appeal to ignorance, argument from ignorance, argumentum ad ignorantiam | A fallacy using lack of knowledge to arrive at a conclusion. One might might say that because a claim cannot be disproven, therefore the opposite must be true. Or, since we do not know (or cannot know, or cannot prove) something, then it must be true (or false). A fallacy of omission. Includes attacking the evidence, whataboutism, and missing link. See also: a priori argument, appealing to closure, deliberate ignorance, simpleton's fallacy, argumentum ex silentio. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 379_lf |
| appeal to popular opinion | argument from common sense, argument to the people, argumentum ad populum, appeal to popular opinion, bandwagon, bandwagon fallacy | A fallacy claiming that something is true because it is believed by most people (or by "everyone," "the people," "the majority" or "someone in power who has widespread backing"). A fallacy of relevance. Sub-approaches can include bandwagon ("everyone's doing it"); patriotic ("it is patriotic"); snob "the best people are doing it"; and covering oneself with the cross ("it's Christian"). Can include: lying with statistics. A modern form is: information cascade. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 380_lf |
| argumentum ad odium | See also: argumentum ad personam, ad hominem. | [15] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 382_lf | |
| argument from common sense | argument from common sense, argument to the people, argumentum ad populum, appeal to popular opinion, bandwagon, bandwagon fallacy | A fallacy claiming that something is true because it is believed by most people (or by "everyone," "the people," "the majority" or "someone in power who has widespread backing"). A fallacy of relevance. Sub-approaches can include bandwagon ("everyone's doing it"); patriotic ("it is patriotic"); snob "the best people are doing it"; and covering oneself with the cross ("it's Christian"). Can include: lying with statistics. A modern form is: information cascade. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 383_lf |
| argument from ignorance | appeal to a lack of evidence, appeal to ignorance, argument from ignorance, argumentum ad ignorantiam | A fallacy using lack of knowledge to arrive at a conclusion. One might might say that because a claim cannot be disproven, therefore the opposite must be true. Or, since we do not know (or cannot know, or cannot prove) something, then it must be true (or false). A fallacy of omission. Includes attacking the evidence, whataboutism, and missing link. See also: a priori argument, appealing to closure, deliberate ignorance, simpleton's fallacy, argumentum ex silentio. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 384_lf |
| argument from mystery | argument from mystery, argumentum ad mysteriam, mystagogy | A fallacy in which some "facts, evidence, practices or arguments" gain weight due to a "quasi-hypnotic effect" that "can often persuade more strongly than any logical argument" derived from special sounds, postures, clothing, rituals, recitations, chants, ancient languages, or other effects introducing a sense of the unknown. Example: long ago and far away. See also: esoteric knowledge. An obverse: standard version fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 387_lf |
| argument from silence | argument from silence, argumentum ex silentio | A fallacy in which it is claimed that, just because the currently available knowledge or evidence cannot prove anything about a claim, therefore this in itself proves that status of the claim as true or false (whereas, really, additional evidence or facts could be sought). | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 389_lf |
| argument from that which is improper | argument from modesty, appeal to authority, appeal to improper authority, argumentum ad verecundium, argument from that which is improper | A fallacy of not "evaluating the...argument on its own merits" and instead simply accepting the conclusion of an individual who may be an expert in a field but whose expertise is unrelated to the argument. A specific form of appeal to improper authority. A subcategory is appeal to biased authority. A fallacy of relevance. | [1], [2] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 390_lf |
| argument to the people | argument from common sense, argument to the people, argumentum ad populum, appeal to popular opinion, bandwagon, bandwagon fallacy | A fallacy claiming that something is true because it is believed by most people (or by "everyone," "the people," "the majority" or "someone in power who has widespread backing"). A fallacy of relevance. Sub-approaches can include bandwagon ("everyone's doing it"); patriotic ("it is patriotic"); snob "the best people are doing it"; and covering oneself with the cross ("it's Christian"). Can include: lying with statistics. A modern form is: information cascade. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 392_lf |
| argumentum ad ignorantiam | appeal to a lack of evidence, appeal to ignorance, argument from ignorance, argumentum ad ignorantiam | A fallacy using lack of knowledge to arrive at a conclusion. One might might say that because a claim cannot be disproven, therefore the opposite must be true. Or, since we do not know (or cannot know, or cannot prove) something, then it must be true (or false). A fallacy of omission. Includes attacking the evidence, whataboutism, and missing link. See also: a priori argument, appealing to closure, deliberate ignorance, simpleton's fallacy, argumentum ex silentio. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 397_lf |
| attentional bias | attention bias | A tendency for perception to be influenced by thought repetition. See also: anchoring bias, availability bias, availability heuristic, focalism. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 403_lf |
| bandwagon fallacy | argument from common sense, argument to the people, argumentum ad populum, appeal to popular opinion, bandwagon, bandwagon fallacy | A fallacy claiming that something is true because it is believed by most people (or by "everyone," "the people," "the majority" or "someone in power who has widespread backing"). A fallacy of relevance. Sub-approaches can include bandwagon ("everyone's doing it"); patriotic ("it is patriotic"); snob "the best people are doing it"; and covering oneself with the cross ("it's Christian"). Can include: lying with statistics. A modern form is: information cascade. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 406_lf |
| counterknowledge | alt facts, alternate facts, alternative truth, counterknowledge, disinformation, information pollution | A fallacy holding that objective facts and truth cannot really exist, are not durable, or are really subjective. A "fallacy of logos rooted in postmodernism". Related to: big lie technique. See also: gaslighting, blind loyalty, big brain little brain fallacy, two truths. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 424_lf | |
| führerprinzip | big brain little brain, führerprinzip, mad leader disease | A fallacy in which a person in a leadership or authority position (a work boss, military commander, or some sort of religious, cult, or group leader) tells people to think not with their little brains (the brain in their head) but instead with their big brain (the leader's brain). An "extreme example of the blind loyalty fallacy". Sometimes expressed positively in that the leader takes (moral) responsibilty for decisions. The opposite is: plausible deniability. See also: just do it, gaslighting. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 442_lf |
| information pollution | alt facts, alternate facts, alternative truth, counterknowledge, disinformation, information pollution | A fallacy holding that objective facts and truth cannot really exist, are not durable, or are really subjective. A "fallacy of logos rooted in postmodernism". Related to: big lie technique. See also: gaslighting, blind loyalty, big brain little brain fallacy, two truths. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 452_lf | |
| mad leader disease | big brain little brain, führerprinzip, mad leader disease | A fallacy in which a person in a leadership or authority position (a work boss, military commander, or some sort of religious, cult, or group leader) tells people to think not with their little brains (the brain in their head) but instead with their big brain (the leader's brain). An "extreme example of the blind loyalty fallacy". Sometimes expressed positively in that the leader takes (moral) responsibilty for decisions. The opposite is: plausible deniability. See also: just do it, gaslighting. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-02 | 459_lf |
| this is the best of all possible worlds | acquiescence, better the devil you know than the devil you don't, deal with it, default bias, get used to it, if it ain't broke don't fix it, it is what it is, let it be let it be, making one's peace with the situation, normalization of evil, this is the best of all possible worlds, whatever is is right | The fallacy that just because something is the current state that is therefore the preferred state. Opposite of: nihilism. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 491_lf |
| argument from natural law | A fallacy in which something is deemed to be true or untrue, or good or bad, as a result of being natural or unnatural (or "against nature") as judged by one's own authority to determine what is natural or unnatural. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 502_lf | |
| autist's fallacy | autist's fallacy, mind blindness | A fallacy in which normal human capacity for "theory of mind" is entirely denied in which it is held that no one can truly understand or know "another's thoughts, emotions, motivations or intents". The opposite of: mind-reading. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 503_lf |
| be-verb fallacy | A fallacy holding that "an extraordinary degree of clarity, sanity, or textual liveliness can be reached by...eliminating all passive verb forms and all forms of the verb 'to be' from English-language writing." A "cultish linguistic theory". An obverse of: passive voice fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 505_lf | |
| big but fallacy | big but fallacy, special pleading | A fallacy of stating "a generally-accepted principle and then directly negating it with a 'but'. Often detailed as a special case "supposedly exempt from the usual rules of law, logic, morality, ethics or even credibility". Closely related to: contradictory premises. A component fallacy. | [1], [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 506_lf |
| blaming the victim | A fallacy in which one "casts the blame for one's own evil or questionable actions on those affected". A form of: scapegoating, blamecasting. See also: affective fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 508_lf | |
| it is what it is | acquiescence, better the devil you know than the devil you don't, deal with it, default bias, get used to it, if it ain't broke don't fix it, it is what it is, let it be let it be, making one's peace with the situation, normalization of evil, this is the best of all possible worlds, whatever is is right | The fallacy that just because something is the current state that is therefore the preferred state. Opposite of: nihilism. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 544_lf |
| mind blindness | autist's fallacy, mind blindness | A fallacy in which normal human capacity for "theory of mind" is entirely denied in which it is held that no one can truly understand or know "another's thoughts, emotions, motivations or intents". The opposite of: mind-reading. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 564_lf |
| mind-reading | A fallacy in which one claims to cleary understand another's thoughts, emotions, motivations, and body language based on mere speculation, at times claiming to understanding these things better than the subject himself. This speculative "knowledge" can be used in an attempt to incorrectly the support other claims. An ancient fallacy. A corruption of stasis theory (agreeing to disagree). The opposite of: autist's fallacy, mind blindness. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 566_lf | |
| passive voice fallacy | bureaucratic passive, passive voice fallacy | An obverse is: be-verb fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 596_lf |
| playing on emotion | bleeding heart, drama queen or drama king fallacy, pathetic fallacy, playing on emotion, sob story | A fallacy in which, ignoring facts, emotion is evoked alone. A fallacy "of pure argument from pathos". The opposite is: apathetic fallacy, burnout, compassion fatigue, cynicism. An obverse is: refinement, real feelings. See also: othering. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 601_lf |
| scapegoating | blamecasting, scapegoating | A fallacy in which there is always someone else to blame than oneself when anything goes wrong. For scapegoating, the blamed entity is typically "other" or marginalized in some way already. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 621_lf |
| scare tactics | appeal to fear, bogeyman fallacy, paranoia, scare tactics, shockdoc, shock doctrine, rally 'round the flag, rally 'round the president | A fallacy in which one takes "advantage of a emergent or deliberately-created crisis and its associated public shock, panic and chaos in order to impose an argument, action or solution that would be clearly unacceptable if carefully considered". A "corrupted argument from pathos". A form of playing on emotions. See also: shopping hungry fallacy, dog-whistle politics, we have to do something, worst-case fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 622_lf |
| worst negates the bad | be grateful for what you've got, worst negates the bad | A fallacy in which it is claimed that "an objectively bad situation somehow isn't so bad simply because it could have been far worse, or because someone, somewhere has it even worse". | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 674_lf |
| base rate neglect | base rate fallacy, base rate neglect | A "tendency to ignore general information and focus on information only pertaining to the specific case, even when the general information is more important". A form of extension neglect. | [6] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 686_cb |
| acquiescence | better the devil you know than the devil you don't, deal with it, default bias, get used to it, if it ain't broke don't fix it, it is what it is, let it be let it be, making one's peace with the situation, normalization of evil, this is the best of all possible worlds, this is the only possible world, whatever is is right | The fallacy that just because something is the current state that is therefore the preferred state. Opposite of: nihilism. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 695_lf |
| appeal to fear | appeal to fear, bogeyman fallacy, paranoia, scare tactics, shockdoc, shock doctrine, rally 'round the flag, rally 'round the president | A fallacy in which one takes "advantage of a emergent or deliberately-created crisis and its associated public shock, panic and chaos in order to impose an argument, action or solution that would be clearly unacceptable if carefully considered". A "corrupted argument from pathos". A form of playing on emotions. See also: shopping hungry fallacy, dog-whistle politics, we have to do something, worst-case fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 698_lf |
| whatever is is right | acquiescence, better the devil you know than the devil you don't, deal with it, default bias, get used to it, if it ain't broke don't fix it, it is what it is, let it be let it be, making one's peace with the situation, normalization of evil, this is the best of all possible worlds, this is the only possible world | The fallacy that just because something is the current state that is therefore the preferred state. Opposite of: nihilism. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 703_lf |
| bandwagon | argument from common sense, argument to the people, argumentum ad populum, appeal to popular opinion, bandwagon, bandwagon fallacy | A fallacy claiming that something is true because it is believed by most people (or by "everyone," "the people," "the majority" or "someone in power who has widespread backing"). A fallacy of relevance. Sub-approaches can include bandwagon ("everyone's doing it"); patriotic ("it is patriotic"); snob "the best people are doing it"; and covering oneself with the cross ("it's Christian"). Can include: lying with statistics. A modern form is: information cascade. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 706_lf |
| be grateful for what you've got | be grateful for what you've got, worst negates the bad | A fallacy in which it is claimed that "an objectively bad situation somehow isn't so bad simply because it could have been far worse, or because someone, somewhere has it even worse". | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 707_lf |
| better the devil you know than the devil you don't | acquiescence, better the devil you know than the devil you don't, deal with it, default bias, get used to it, if it ain't broke don't fix it, it is what it is, let it be let it be, making one's peace with the situation, normalization of evil, this is the best of all possible worlds, whatever is is right | The fallacy that just because something is the current state that is therefore the preferred state. Opposite of: nihilism. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 710_lf |
| blamecasting | blamecasting, scapegoating | A fallacy in which there is always someone else to blame than oneself when anything goes wrong. For scapegoating, the blamed entity is typically "other" or marginalized in some way already. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 713_lf |
| bleeding heart | bleeding heart, drama queen or drama king fallacy, pathetic fallacy, playing on emotion, sob story | A fallacy in which, ignoring facts, emotion is evoked alone. A fallacy "of pure argument from pathos". The opposite is: apathetic fallacy, burnout, compassion fatigue, cynicism. An obverse is: refinement, real feelings. See also: othering. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 714_lf |
| bogeyman fallacy | appeal to fear, bogeyman fallacy, paranoia, scare tactics, shockdoc, shock doctrine, rally 'round the flag, rally 'round the president | A fallacy in which one takes "advantage of a emergent or deliberately-created crisis and its associated public shock, panic and chaos in order to impose an argument, action or solution that would be clearly unacceptable if carefully considered". A "corrupted argument from pathos". A form of playing on emotions. See also: shopping hungry fallacy, dog-whistle politics, we have to do something, worst-case fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 716_lf |
| bureaucratic passive | bureaucratic passive, passive voice fallacy | An obverse is: be-verb fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 721_lf |
| deal with it | acquiescence, better the devil you know than the devil you don't, deal with it, default bias, get used to it, if it ain't broke don't fix it, it is what it is, let it be let it be, making one's peace with the situation, normalization of evil, this is the best of all possible worlds, whatever is is right | The fallacy that just because something is the current state that is therefore the preferred state. Opposite of: nihilism. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 733_lf |
| drama queen or drama king fallacy | bleeding heart, drama queen or drama king fallacy, pathetic fallacy, playing on emotion, sob story | A fallacy in which, ignoring facts, emotion is evoked alone. A fallacy "of pure argument from pathos". The opposite is: apathetic fallacy, burnout, compassion fatigue, cynicism. An obverse is: refinement, real feelings. See also: othering. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 743_lf |
| get used to it | acquiescence, better the devil you know than the devil you don't, deal with it, default bias, get used to it, if it ain't broke don't fix it, it is what it is, let it be let it be, making one's peace with the situation, normalization of evil, this is the best of all possible worlds, whatever is is right | The fallacy that just because something is the current state that is therefore the preferred state. Opposite of: nihilism. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 762_lf |
| if it ain't broke don't fix it | acquiescence, better the devil you know than the devil you don't, deal with it, default bias, get used to it, if it ain't broke don't fix it, it is what it is, let it be let it be, making one's peace with the situation, normalization of evil, this is the best of all possible worlds, whatever is is right | The fallacy that just because something is the current state that is therefore the preferred state. Opposite of: nihilism. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 774_lf |
| let it be let it be | acquiescence, better the devil you know than the devil you don't, deal with it, default bias, get used to it, if it ain't broke don't fix it, it is what it is, let it be let it be, making one's peace with the situation, normalization of evil, this is the best of all possible worlds, whatever is is right | The fallacy that just because something is the current state that is therefore the preferred state. Opposite of: nihilism. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 787_lf |
| making one's peace with the situation | acquiescence, better the devil you know than the devil you don't, deal with it, default bias, get used to it, if it ain't broke don't fix it, it is what it is, let it be let it be, making one's peace with the situation, normalization of evil, this is the best of all possible worlds, whatever is is right | The fallacy that just because something is the current state that is therefore the preferred state. Opposite of: nihilism. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 794_lf |
| mystagogy | argument from mystery, argumentum ad mysteriam, mystagogy | A fallacy in which some "facts, evidence, practices or arguments" gain weight due to a "quasi-hypnotic effect" that "can often persuade more strongly than any logical argument" derived from special sounds, postures, clothing, rituals, recitations, chants, ancient languages, or other effects introducing a sense of the unknown. Example: long ago and far away. See also: esoteric knowledge. An obverse: standard version fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 807_lf |
| normalization of evil | acquiescence, better the devil you know than the devil you don't, deal with it, default bias, get used to it, if it ain't broke don't fix it, it is what it is, let it be let it be, making one's peace with the situation, normalization of evil, this is the best of all possible worlds, whatever is is right | The fallacy that just because something is the current state that is therefore the preferred state. Opposite of: nihilism. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 816_lf |
| paranoia | appeal to fear, bogeyman fallacy, paranoia, scare tactics, shockdoc, shock doctrine, rally 'round the flag, rally 'round the president | A fallacy in which one takes "advantage of a emergent or deliberately-created crisis and its associated public shock, panic and chaos in order to impose an argument, action or solution that would be clearly unacceptable if carefully considered". A "corrupted argument from pathos". A form of playing on emotions. See also: shopping hungry fallacy, dog-whistle politics, we have to do something, worst-case fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 823_lf |
| pathetic fallacy | bleeding heart, drama queen or drama king fallacy, pathetic fallacy, playing on emotion, sob story | A fallacy in which, ignoring facts, emotion is evoked alone. A fallacy "of pure argument from pathos". The opposite is: apathetic fallacy, burnout, compassion fatigue, cynicism. An obverse is: refinement, real feelings. See also: othering. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 824_lf |
| rally 'round the flag | appeal to fear, bogeyman fallacy, paranoia, scare tactics, shockdoc, shock doctrine, rally 'round the flag, rally 'round the president | A fallacy in which one takes "advantage of a emergent or deliberately-created crisis and its associated public shock, panic and chaos in order to impose an argument, action or solution that would be clearly unacceptable if carefully considered". A "corrupted argument from pathos". A form of playing on emotions. See also: shopping hungry fallacy, dog-whistle politics, we have to do something, worst-case fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 843_lf |
| rally 'round the president | appeal to fear, bogeyman fallacy, paranoia, scare tactics, shockdoc, shock doctrine, rally 'round the flag, rally 'round the president | A fallacy in which one takes "advantage of a emergent or deliberately-created crisis and its associated public shock, panic and chaos in order to impose an argument, action or solution that would be clearly unacceptable if carefully considered". A "corrupted argument from pathos". A form of playing on emotions. See also: shopping hungry fallacy, dog-whistle politics, we have to do something, worst-case fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 844_lf |
| shock doctrine | appeal to fear, bogeyman fallacy, paranoia, scare tactics, shockdoc, shock doctrine, rally 'round the flag, rally 'round the president | A fallacy in which one takes "advantage of a emergent or deliberately-created crisis and its associated public shock, panic and chaos in order to impose an argument, action or solution that would be clearly unacceptable if carefully considered". A "corrupted argument from pathos". A form of playing on emotions. See also: shopping hungry fallacy, dog-whistle politics, we have to do something, worst-case fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 854_lf |
| shockdoc | appeal to fear, bogeyman fallacy, paranoia, scare tactics, shockdoc, shock doctrine, rally 'round the flag, rally 'round the president | A fallacy in which one takes "advantage of a emergent or deliberately-created crisis and its associated public shock, panic and chaos in order to impose an argument, action or solution that would be clearly unacceptable if carefully considered". A "corrupted argument from pathos". A form of playing on emotions. See also: shopping hungry fallacy, dog-whistle politics, we have to do something, worst-case fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 855_lf |
| sob story | bleeding heart, drama queen or drama king fallacy, pathetic fallacy, playing on emotion, sob story | A fallacy in which, ignoring facts, emotion is evoked alone. A fallacy "of pure argument from pathos". The opposite is: apathetic fallacy, burnout, compassion fatigue, cynicism. An obverse is: refinement, real feelings. See also: othering. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 862_lf |
| focalism | A tendency to rely too much on one particular thing (often the first available thing) when considering a decision. See also: common source bias, conservatism bias, functional fixedness, law of the instrument. See also: anchoring bias, attention bias, attentional bias, availability bias, availability heuristic. | [6] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-02 | 903_cb | |
| a person's got to do what a person's got to do | a person's got to do what a person's got to do, a man's got to do what a man's got to do, a woman's got to do what a woman's got to do, I've got to do what I've got to do | This fallacy draws a conclusion based on (potentially prejudiced identity or gender-based) feelings or emotion not necessarily having a foundation in logical reasoning (e.g., it is possible that they do not really have to arrive at that outcome). A form of the affective fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-14 | 2024-07-02 | 910_lf |
| a woman's got to do what a woman's got to do | a person's got to do what a person's got to do, a woman's got to do what a woman's got to do, I've got to do what I've got to do | This fallacy draws a conclusion based on (potentially prejudiced identity or gender-based) feelings or emotion not necessarily having a foundation in logical reasoning (e.g., it is possible that they do not really have to arrive at that outcome). A form of the affective fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-14 | 2024-07-02 | 911_lf |
| I've got to do what I've got to do | a person's got to do what a person's got to do, a man's got to do what a man's got to do, I've got to do what I've got to do | This fallacy draws a conclusion based on (potentially prejudiced identity or gender-based) feelings or emotion not necessarily having a foundation in logical reasoning (e.g., it is possible that they do not really have to arrive at that outcome). A form of the affective fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-14 | 2024-07-02 | 912_lf |
| argumentum ad personam | Often, synonymous with argumentum ad hominem (arguing against a person holding a claim instead of arguing against the claim itself).Sometimes, "appealing to the personal interests of someone in order persuade someone to accept an argumentative claim" ("rather than directing an argument towards the issue at hand").See also: ad hominem argument, argumentum ad hominem, argument toward the man, attacking the person, poisoning the well. | [8], [9], [11], [15] | 2024-06-14 | 2024-07-02 | 914_lf | |
| appeal to force | appeal to force, argument from force, argument from strength, argument from the club (stick), argumentum ad baculum, bullying, fascism, hard power, might-makes-right, muscular leadership, non-negotiable demands, power-play, resolution by force of arms, shock and awe | A fallacy in which a conclusion is reached due to force, threat of force, or threat of unpleasantness. A fallacy of relevance, since reason for conclusion is not relevant to the argument at hand. | [1], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 001_lf |
| circular reasoning | begging the question, catch 22, circular reasoning, circulus in probando, petitio principii, vicious circle | A fallacy in which the same proposition appears as a premise and as a conclusion (sometimes worded in two statements appearing differently enough to make this not very obvious); for example, "A, therefore B." and also "B, therefore A". Sometimes, begging the question and circular reasoning are used interchangeably and sometimes with a difference--begging the question or petitio principii more specifically assumes as evidence the conclusion they are trying to prove.) A fallacy of logos. A component fallacy. See also: complex question, big lie technique. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 011_lf |
| begging the question | begging the question, catch 22, circular reasoning, circulus in probando, petitio principii, vicious circle | A fallacy in which the same proposition appears as a premise and as a conclusion (sometimes worded in two statements appearing differently enough to make this not very obvious); for example, "A, therefore B." and also "B, therefore A". Sometimes, begging the question and circular reasoning are used interchangeably and sometimes with a difference--begging the question or petitio principii more specifically assumes as evidence the conclusion they are trying to prove.) A fallacy of logos. A component fallacy. See also: complex question, big lie technique. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 010_lf |
| false cause | coincidental correlation, post hoc ergo propter hoc | One type is Non Causa Pro Causa or Not the cause for a cause. One type is Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc or After this, therefore because of this. A component fallacy. | [1], [2] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 013_lf |
| slippery slope fallacy | camel's nose fallacy | A fallacy holding that "one thing inevitably leads to another" when this is not necessarily the case. A non sequitur. A component fallacy. | [1], [2] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 017_lf |
| composition | A fallacy of ambiguity. The opposite of divison. | [1] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 025_lf | |
| stacking the deck | card stacking, half truth, incomplete information, stacking the deck | A fallacy of ignoring examples or evidence that disprove one's point and instead only listing examples or sharing evidence which would support one's point. A fallacy of omission. A "corrupt argument from logos". Different from: straw man. See also: confirmation bias, hasty generalization. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 028_lf |
| correlation implies causation | cum hoc ergo propter hoc, correlation implies causation | A fallacy of concluding that one thing causes another just because of their occurring together (at the same time or one after the other) or "solely on the basis of an observed association or correlation between them". An example of: causal fallacy, false cause, non causa pro causa, non-cause for cause. See also: post hoc argument, post hoc propter hoc, post hoc ergo propter hoc, too much of a coincidence, clustering illusion. | [1], [2], [3], [16], [17], [18] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 035_lf |
| argumentum ad baculum | appeal to force, argument from force, argument from strength, argument from the club (stick), argumentum ad baculum, bullying, fascism, hard power, might-makes-right, muscular leadership, non-negotiable demands, power-play, resolution by force of arms, shock and awe | A fallacy in which a conclusion is reached due to force, threat of force, or threat of unpleasantness. A fallacy of relevance, since reason for conclusion is not relevant to the argument at hand. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 059_lf |
| big lie technique | big lie technique, bold faced lie, staying on message | A fallacy of "repeating a lie, fallacy, slogan, talking-point, nonsense-statement or deceptive half-truth over and over in different forms (particularly in the media) until it becomes part of daily discourse and people accept it without further proof or evidence". Notably, "the bolder and more outlandish the big lie becomes the more credible it seems". See also: alphabet soup, alternative truth; bandwagon fallacy, propaganda, straw man. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 065_lf |
| blind loyalty | blind loyalty, blind obedience, Nuremberg defense, team player appeal, unthinking obedience | A fallacy which holds that "an argument or action is right simply and solely because a respected leader or source (a President, expert, one's parents, one's own side, team or country, one's boss or commanding officers) says it is right". A corrupted argument from ethos. See also: big brain little brain fallacy, soldiers' honor fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 066_lf |
| boundary extension | A tendency to remember an image's background as "larger or more expansive" compared with the foreground. A memory bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 128_cb | |
| Nuremberg defense | blind loyalty, blind obedience, Nuremberg defense, team player appeal, unthinking obedience | A fallacy which holds that "an argument or action is right simply and solely because a respected leader or source (a President, expert, one's parents, one's own side, team or country, one's boss or commanding officers) says it is right". A corrupted argument from ethos. See also: big brain little brain fallacy, soldiers' honor fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 372_lf |
| argument from the club (stick) | appeal to force, argument from force, argument from strength, argument from the club (stick), argumentum ad baculum, bullying, fascism, hard power, might-makes-right, muscular leadership, non-negotiable demands, power-play, resolution by force of arms, shock and awe | A fallacy in which a conclusion is reached due to force, threat of force, or threat of unpleasantness. A fallacy of relevance, since reason for conclusion is not relevant to the argument at hand. | [1], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 391_lf |
| blind obedience | blind loyalty, blind obedience, Nuremberg defense, team player appeal, unthinking obedience | A fallacy which holds that "an argument or action is right simply and solely because a respected leader or source (a President, expert, one's parents, one's own side, team or country, one's boss or commanding officers) says it is right". A corrupted argument from ethos. See also: big brain little brain fallacy, soldiers' honor fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 411_lf |
| bold faced lie | big lie technique, bold faced lie, staying on message | A fallacy of "repeating a lie, fallacy, slogan, talking-point, nonsense-statement or deceptive half-truth over and over in different forms (particularly in the media) until it becomes part of daily discourse and people accept it without further proof or evidence". Notably, "the bolder and more outlandish the big lie becomes the more credible it seems". See also: alphabet soup, alternative truth; bandwagon fallacy, propaganda, straw man. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 412_lf |
| camel's nose fallacy | camel's nose fallacy, domino theory, slippery slope | A fallacy holding that "one thing inevitably leads to another" when this is not necessarily the case. A non sequitur. | [1], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 413_lf |
| card stacking | card stacking, half truth, incomplete information, stacking the deck | A fallacy of ignoring examples or evidence that disprove one's point and instead only listing examples or sharing evidence which would support one's point. A fallacy of omission. A "corrupt argument from logos". Different from: straw man. See also: confirmation bias, hasty generalization. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 414_lf |
| catch 22 | begging the question, catch 22, circular reasoning, circulus in probando, petitio principii, vicious circle | A fallacy in which the same proposition appears as a premise and as a conclusion (sometimes worded in two statements appearing differently enough to make this not very obvious); for example, "A, therefore B." and also "B, therefore A". Sometimes, begging the question and circular reasoning are used interchangeably and sometimes with a difference--begging the question or petitio principii more specifically assumes as evidence the conclusion they are trying to prove.) A fallacy of logos. A component fallacy. See also: complex question, big lie technique. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 415_lf |
| cum hoc ergo propter hoc | cum hoc ergo propter hoc, correlation implies causation | A fallacy of concluding that one thing causes another just because of their occurring together (at the same time or one after the other) or "solely on the basis of an observed association or correlation between them". An example of: causal fallacy, false cause, non causa pro causa, non-cause for cause. See also: post hoc argument, post hoc propter hoc, post hoc ergo propter hoc, too much of a coincidence, clustering illusion. | [1], [2], [3], [16], [17], [18] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 425_lf |
| half truth | card stacking, half truth, incomplete information, stacking the deck | A fallacy of ignoring examples or evidence that disprove one's point and instead only listing examples or sharing evidence which would support one's point. A fallacy of omission. A "corrupt argument from logos". Different from: straw man. See also: confirmation bias, hasty generalization. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 447_lf |
| might-makes-right | appeal to force, argument from force, argument from strength, argument from the club (stick), argumentum ad baculum, bullying, fascism, hard power, might-makes-right, muscular leadership, non-negotiable demands, power-play, resolution by force of arms, shock and awe | A fallacy in which a conclusion is reached due to force, threat of force, or threat of unpleasantness. A fallacy of relevance, since reason for conclusion is not relevant to the argument at hand. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 461_lf | |
| petitio principii | begging the question, catch 22, circular reasoning, circulus in probando, petitio principii, vicious circle | A fallacy in which the same proposition appears as a premise and as a conclusion (sometimes worded in two statements appearing differently enough to make this not very obvious); for example, "A, therefore B." and also "B, therefore A". Sometimes, begging the question and circular reasoning are used interchangeably and sometimes with a difference--begging the question or petitio principii more specifically assumes as evidence the conclusion they are trying to prove.) A fallacy of logos. A component fallacy. See also: complex question, big lie technique. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 467_lf |
| staying on message | big lie technique, bold faced lie, staying on message | A fallacy of "repeating a lie, fallacy, slogan, talking-point, nonsense-statement or deceptive half-truth over and over in different forms (particularly in the media) until it becomes part of daily discourse and people accept it without further proof or evidence". Notably, "the bolder and more outlandish the big lie becomes the more credible it seems". See also: alphabet soup, alternative truth; bandwagon fallacy, propaganda, straw man. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 481_lf |
| team player appeal | blind loyalty, blind obedience, Nuremberg defense, team player appeal, unthinking obedience | A fallacy which holds that "an argument or action is right simply and solely because a respected leader or source (a President, expert, one's parents, one's own side, team or country, one's boss or commanding officers) says it is right". A corrupted argument from ethos. See also: big brain little brain fallacy, soldiers' honor fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 482_lf |
| unthinking obedience | blind loyalty, blind obedience, Nuremberg defense, team player appeal, unthinking obedience | A fallacy which holds that "an argument or action is right simply and solely because a respected leader or source (a President, expert, one's parents, one's own side, team or country, one's boss or commanding officers) says it is right". A corrupted argument from ethos. See also: big brain little brain fallacy, soldiers' honor fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 486_lf |
| vicious circle | begging the question, catch 22, circular reasoning, circulus in probando, petitio principii, vicious circle | A fallacy in which the same proposition appears as a premise and as a conclusion (sometimes worded in two statements appearing differently enough to make this not very obvious); for example, "A, therefore B." and also "B, therefore A". Sometimes, begging the question and circular reasoning are used interchangeably and sometimes with a difference--begging the question or petitio principii more specifically assumes as evidence the conclusion they are trying to prove.) A fallacy of logos. A component fallacy. See also: complex question, big lie technique. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-03 | 487_lf |
| blood of the martyrs fallacy | blood of the martyrs fallacy, waving the bloody shirt | A fallacy holding that "a cause or argument, no matter how questionable or reprehensible, cannot be questioned without dishonoring the blood and sacrifice of those who died so nobly for that cause". An extreme example of: E for effort, I'm trying by best, lost cause. See also: appeal to pity, argument from inertia, cost bias, heroes all, sob story, soldiers' honor fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 509_lf |
| calling "cards" | A fallacy of "arbitrarily and falsely dismissing familiar or easily-anticipated but valid, reasoned objections to one's standpoint with a wave of the hand", as though such objections were mere "cards" in some sort of "game" of rhetoric. A fallacy of logos. See also: taboo, political correctness. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 511_lf | |
| campaign promises | campaign promises, demagogy | A fallacy of "deliberately lying to the people to gain their support or motivate" some action desired by the promoter of the lie. Related: self deception, whistling by the graveyard. See also: argument to the people, argumentum ad populum, dog-whistle politics, othering. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 512_lf |
| demagogy | campaign promises, demagogy | A fallacy of "deliberately lying to the people to gain their support or motivate" some action desired by the promoter of the lie. Related: self deception, whistling by the graveyard. See also: argument to the people, argumentum ad populum, dog-whistle politics, othering. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 518_lf |
| romantic rebel | brave heretic, conspiracy theories, iconoclastic fallacy, romantic rebel, truthout fallacy, truthdig fallacy | A fallacy of holding a claim as true just because that position "is supposedly standing up heroically to the dominant orthodoxy, the current standard model, conventional wisdom or political correctness, or whatever may be the bandwagon of the moment". A corrupt argument from ethos. The opposite of: bandwagon fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 616_lf |
| slippery slope | camel's nose fallacy, domino theory, slippery slope | A fallacy holding that "one thing inevitably leads to another" when this is not necessarily the case. A non sequitur. A component fallacy. | [1], [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 636_lf |
| waving the bloody shirt | blood of the martyrs fallacy, waving the bloody shirt | A fallacy holding that "a cause or argument, no matter how questionable or reprehensible, cannot be questioned without dishonoring the blood and sacrifice of those who died so nobly for that cause". An extreme example of: e for effort, I'm trying by best, lost cause. See also: appeal to pity, argument from inertia, cost bias, heroes all, sob story, soldiers' honor fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 668_lf |
| argument from force | appeal to force, argument from force, argument from strength, argument from the club (stick), argumentum ad baculum, bullying, fascism, hard power, might-makes-right, muscular leadership, non-negotiable demands, power-play, resolution by force of arms, shock and awe | A fallacy in which a conclusion is reached due to force, threat of force, or threat of unpleasantness. A fallacy of relevance, since reason for conclusion is not relevant to the argument at hand. | [1]. [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 701_lf |
| argument from strength | appeal to force, argument from force, argument from strength, argument from the club (stick), argumentum ad baculum, bullying, fascism, hard power, might-makes-right, muscular leadership, non-negotiable demands, power-play, resolution by force of arms, shock and awe | A fallacy in which a conclusion is reached due to force, threat of force, or threat of unpleasantness. A fallacy of relevance, since reason for conclusion is not relevant to the argument at hand. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 702_lf |
| brave heretic | brave heretic, conspiracy theories, iconoclastic fallacy, romantic rebel, truthout fallacy, truthdig fallacy | A fallacy of holding a claim as true just because that position "is supposedly standing up heroically to the dominant orthodoxy, the current standard model, conventional wisdom or political correctness, or whatever may be the bandwagon of the moment". A corrupt argument from ethos. The opposite of: bandwagon fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 718_lf |
| broken windows policing | broken windows policing, disproportionate response, even one is too many, judenrein, exemplary punishment, zero risk bias | A fallacy of "declaring an 'emergency' and promising to disregard justice and due process and devote unlimited resources (and occasionally, unlimited cruelty) to stamp out a limited, insignificant or even nonexistent problem". A "corrupt and cynical argument from pathos". "Almost always politically driven." A "sinister" form of dog whistle politics. An example of: we have to do something (placebo effect, political theater, security theater, we have to send a message). | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 719_lf |
| bullying | appeal to force, argument from force, argument from strength, argument from the club (stick), argumentum ad baculum, bullying, fascism, hard power, might-makes-right, muscular leadership, non-negotiable demands, power-play, resolution by force of arms, shock and awe | A fallacy in which a conclusion is reached due to force, threat of force, or threat of unpleasantness. A fallacy of relevance, since reason for conclusion is not relevant to the argument at hand. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 720_lf |
| conspiracy theories | brave heretic, conspiracy theories, iconoclastic fallacy, romantic rebel, truthout fallacy, truthdig fallacy | A fallacy of holding a claim as true just because that position "is supposedly standing up heroically to the dominant orthodoxy, the current standard model, conventional wisdom or political correctness, or whatever may be the bandwagon of the moment". A corrupt argument from ethos. The opposite of: bandwagon fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 727_lf |
| disproportionate response | broken windows policing, disproportionate response, even one is too many, judenrein, exemplary punishment, zero risk bias | A fallacy of "declaring an 'emergency' and promising to disregard justice and due process and devote unlimited resources (and occasionally, unlimited cruelty) to stamp out a limited, insignificant or even nonexistent problem". A "corrupt and cynical argument from pathos". "Almost always politically driven." A "sinister" form of dog whistle politics. An example of: we have to do something (placebo effect, political theater, security theater, we have to send a message). | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 738_lf |
| domino theory | camel's nose fallacy, domino theory, slippery slope | A fallacy holding that "one thing inevitably leads to another" when this is not necessarily the case. A non sequitur. A component fallacy. | [1], [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 741_lf |
| even one is too many | broken windows policing, disproportionate response, even one is too many, judenrein, exemplary punishment, zero risk bias | A fallacy of "declaring an 'emergency' and promising to disregard justice and due process and devote unlimited resources (and occasionally, unlimited cruelty) to stamp out a limited, insignificant or even nonexistent problem". A "corrupt and cynical argument from pathos". "Almost always politically driven." A "sinister" form of dog whistle politics. An example of: we have to do something (placebo effect, political theater, security theater, we have to send a message). | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 747_lf |
| exemplary punishment | broken windows policing, disproportionate response, even one is too many, judenrein, exemplary punishment, zero risk bias | A fallacy of "declaring an 'emergency' and promising to disregard justice and due process and devote unlimited resources (and occasionally, unlimited cruelty) to stamp out a limited, insignificant or even nonexistent problem". A "corrupt and cynical argument from pathos". "Almost always politically driven." A "sinister" form of dog whistle politics. An example of: we have to do something (placebo effect, political theater, security theater, we have to send a message). | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 750_lf |
| fascism | appeal to force, argument from force, argument from strength, argument from the club (stick), argumentum ad baculum, bullying, fascism, hard power, might-makes-right, muscular leadership, non-negotiable demands, power-play, resolution by force of arms, shock and awe | A fallacy in which a conclusion is reached due to force, threat of force, or threat of unpleasantness. A fallacy of relevance, since reason for conclusion is not relevant to the argument at hand. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 758_lf |
| hard power | appeal to force, argument from force, argument from strength, argument from the club (stick), argumentum ad baculum, bullying, fascism, hard power, might-makes-right, muscular leadership, non-negotiable demands, power-play, resolution by force of arms, shock and awe | A fallacy in which a conclusion is reached due to force, threat of force, or threat of unpleasantness. A fallacy of relevance, since reason for conclusion is not relevant to the argument at hand. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 766_lf |
| iconoclastic fallacy | brave heretic, conspiracy theories, iconoclastic fallacy, romantic rebel, truthout fallacy, truthdig fallacy | A fallacy of holding a claim as true just because that position "is supposedly standing up heroically to the dominant orthodoxy, the current standard model, conventional wisdom or political correctness, or whatever may be the bandwagon of the moment". A corrupt argument from ethos. The opposite of: bandwagon fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 772_lf |
| identity politics | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 773_lf | ||
| incomplete information | card stacking, half truth, incomplete information, stacking the deck | A fallacy of ignoring examples or evidence that disprove one's point and instead only listing examples or sharing evidence which would support one's point. A fallacy of omission. A "corrupt argument from logos". Different from: straw man. See also: confirmation bias, hasty generalization. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 775_lf |
| judenrein | broken windows policing, disproportionate response, even one is too many, judenrein, exemplary punishment, zero risk bias | A fallacy of "declaring an 'emergency' and promising to disregard justice and due process and devote unlimited resources (and occasionally, unlimited cruelty) to stamp out a limited, insignificant or even nonexistent problem". A "corrupt and cynical argument from pathos". "Almost always politically driven." A "sinister" form of dog whistle politics. An example of: we have to do something (placebo effect, political theater, security theater, we have to send a message). | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 778_lf |
| muscular leadership | appeal to force, argument from force, argument from strength, argument from the club (stick), argumentum ad baculum, bullying, fascism, hard power, might-makes-right, muscular leadership, non-negotiable demands, power-play, resolution by force of arms, shock and awe | A fallacy in which a conclusion is reached due to force, threat of force, or threat of unpleasantness. A fallacy of relevance, since reason for conclusion is not relevant to the argument at hand. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 806_lf |
| non-negotiable demands | appeal to force, argument from force, argument from strength, argument from the club (stick), argumentum ad baculum, bullying, fascism, hard power, might-makes-right, muscular leadership, non-negotiable demands, power-play, resolution by force of arms, shock and awe | A fallacy in which a conclusion is reached due to force, threat of force, or threat of unpleasantness. A fallacy of relevance, since reason for conclusion is not relevant to the argument at hand. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 811_lf |
| power-play | appeal to force, argument from force, argument from strength, argument from the club (stick), argumentum ad baculum, bullying, fascism, hard power, might-makes-right, muscular leadership, non-negotiable demands, power-play, resolution by force of arms, shock and awe | A fallacy in which a conclusion is reached due to force, threat of force, or threat of unpleasantness. A fallacy of relevance, since reason for conclusion is not relevant to the argument at hand. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 835_lf |
| resolution by force of arms | appeal to force, argument from force, argument from strength, argument from the club (stick), argumentum ad baculum, bullying, fascism, hard power, might-makes-right, muscular leadership, non-negotiable demands, power-play, resolution by force of arms, shock and awe | A fallacy in which a conclusion is reached due to force, threat of force, or threat of unpleasantness. A fallacy of relevance, since reason for conclusion is not relevant to the argument at hand. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 849_lf |
| shock and awe | appeal to force, argument from force, argument from strength, argument from the club (stick), argumentum ad baculum, bullying, fascism, hard power, might-makes-right, muscular leadership, non-negotiable demands, power-play, resolution by force of arms, shock and awe | A fallacy in which a conclusion is reached due to force, threat of force, or threat of unpleasantness. A fallacy of relevance, since reason for conclusion is not relevant to the argument at hand. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 853_lf |
| truthdig fallacy | brave heretic, conspiracy theories, iconoclastic fallacy, romantic rebel, truthout fallacy, truthdig fallacy | A fallacy of holding a claim as true just because that position "is supposedly standing up heroically to the dominant orthodoxy, the current standard model, conventional wisdom or political correctness, or whatever may be the bandwagon of the moment". A corrupt argument from ethos. The opposite of: bandwagon fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 890_lf |
| truthout fallacy | brave heretic, conspiracy theories, iconoclastic fallacy, romantic rebel, truthout fallacy, truthdig fallacy | A fallacy of holding a claim as true just because that position "is supposedly standing up heroically to the dominant orthodoxy, the current standard model, conventional wisdom or political correctness, or whatever may be the bandwagon of the moment". A corrupt argument from ethos. The opposite of: bandwagon fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 891_lf |
| zero risk bias | broken windows policing, disproportionate response, even one is too many, judenrein, exemplary punishment, zero risk bias | A fallacy of "declaring an 'emergency' and promising to disregard justice and due process and devote unlimited resources (and occasionally, unlimited cruelty) to stamp out a limited, insignificant or even nonexistent problem". A "corrupt and cynical argument from pathos". "Almost always politically driven." A "sinister" form of dog whistle politics. An example of: we have to do something (placebo effect, political theater, security theater, we have to send a message). | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-03 | 908_lf |
| amphiboly | Literally, "indeterminate". A fallacy in which a conclusion relies on interpreting a sentence to mean one thing, when the inclusion of that sentence as a premise was intended to mean something else. Possible because some sentences can be read multiple ways with different meanings depending on word usage. A fallacy of ambiguity. Compare with: equivocation. | [1] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 024_lf | |
| too much of a coincidence | post hoc argument, post hoc propter hoc, post hoc ergo propter hoc, too much of a coincidence, clustering illusion | A "classic paranoiac fallacy of attributing an imaginary causality to random coincidences, concluding that just because something happens close to, at the same time as, or just after something else, the first thing is caused by the second". See also: cum hoc ergo propter hoc, correlation implies causation. | [3], [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 034_lf |
| equivocation | A fallacy of "knowingly and deliberately using words in a different sense than the one the audience will understand" or "deliberately failing to define one's terms" or for "the same term...using differing meanings" or "using a word in a different way than the author used it in the original premise" or "changing definitions halfway through a discussion". A fallacy of ambiguity. Compare with: amphiboly. | [1], [2], [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 037_lf | |
| chosen emotion fallacy | A fallacy in which "one falsely claims complete, or at least reliable prior voluntary control over one's own autonomic, gut level affective reactions". Related to but distinct from: angelism. Opposite to: affective fallacy, appeal to emotion, appeal to pity, argument from pity, argumentum ad misericordiam, emotion over reflection, follow your heart, playing to emotions, romantic fallacy. See also: mortification. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 044_lf | |
| confirmation bias | The cognitive bias and logical fallacy of a tendency to "search for, interpret, focus on and remember information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions". Includes: backfire effect, congruence effect, experimenter's bias, expectation bias, observer-expectancy effect, selective perception, Semmelweis reflex. See also: defensiveness, half truth. | [3], [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 071_cb_lf | |
| cost bias | A fallacy in which an expensive thing is regarded more highly than a free or inexpensive thing, "regardless of the item's real quality, utility, or true value to the purchaser". "A fallacy of ethos (that of a product)." | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 072_lf | |
| defensiveness | choice-support bias, choice-supportive bias, defensiveness, myside bias | A fallacy and bias in which "after one has taken a given decision, commitment or course of action, one automatically tends to defend that decision and to irrationally dismiss opposing options even when one's decision later on proves to be shaky or wrong". A "fallacy of ethos (one's own)". See also argument from inertia, confirmation bias. | [3], [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 074_lf |
| dog whistle politics | A fallacy in which, instead of addressing, refuting, or listening to arguments, an arguer uses "brief phrases or slogans of the hour" that reflexively "sends one's audience...into a frenzy" such that "any reasoned attempt to more clearly identify, deconstruct, or challenge an opponent's dog whistle appeal results in puzzled confusion at best and wild, irrational fury at worst". A "fallacy of logos and pathos". See also: reductionism. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 077_lf | |
| Dunning-Kruger effect | A cognitive bias and logical fallacy in which "people of limited skills or knowledge mistakenly believe their abilities are greater than they actually are". Clarifying notes: "Dunning and Kruger themselves never claimed to show that the unskilled think they're better than the skilled." "Also, there is a positive correlation between actual performance and perceived performance." | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 079_cb_lf | |
| eschatological fallacy | A fallacy that argues that "the world is coming to an end" so therefore some position is reasonable. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 081_lf | |
| gaslighting | A fallacy of "denying or invalidating a person's own knowledge and experiences by deliberately twisting or distorting known facts, memories, scenes, events and evidence in order to disorient a vulnerable opponent and to make him or her doubt his/her sanity". An example is: emotional invalidation. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 091_lf | |
| emotional invalidation | A fallacy of "questioning, after the fact, the reality or validity of affective [emotional] states, either another's or one's own". An example of: gaslighting. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 092_lf | |
| Hoyle's fallacy | The false assumption that a low-probablility event could never have happened or will never happen. An obverse: you can't win if you don't play, someone's going to win and it might as well be you. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 097_lf | |
| cheerleader effect | A tendency " for people to appear more attractive in a group than in isolation". A social bias. A form of association fallacy. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 129_cb | |
| childhood amnesia | The tendency to retain few memories from before the age of four. A memory bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 130_cb | |
| choice-supportive bias | choice-support bias, choice-supportive bias, defensiveness, myside bias | A fallacy in which "after one has taken a given decision, commitment or course of action, one automatically tends to defend that decision and to irrationally dismiss opposing options even when one's decision later on proves to be shaky or wrong". A "fallacy of ethos (one's own)". See also argument from inertia, confirmation bias. | [3], [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 131_cb |
| chronological snobbery | A tendency to consider something (like an idea or argument) from an earlier time as less valid than newer concept on the (not necessarliy true) basis that people in the past were less intelligent. A from of appeal to novelty. | [6], [18] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 132_cb_lf | |
| clustering illusion | post hoc argument, post hoc propter hoc, post hoc ergo propter hoc, too much of a coincidence, clustering illusion | A "classic paranoiac fallacy of attributing an imaginary causality to random coincidences, concluding that just because something happens close to, at the same time as, or just after something else, the first thing is caused by the second". See also: cum hoc ergo propter hoc, correlation implies causation | [3], [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 133_cb_lf |
| cognitive dissonance | Theoretically, bias reults when "people continually reduce their" "mental disturbance...when...beliefs and actions are inconsistent and contradictory..." "in order to align their cognitions (perceptions of the world) with their actions". The concept is said to be comprised of 1) the bias of feeling one does not have baises, 2) the bias in which one feels better, smarter, or more moral than average, and 3) confirmation bias. | [6], [17] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 134_cb | |
| common source bias | A tendency "to combine or compare research studies from the same source, or from sources that use the same methodologies or data". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 135_cb | |
| compassion fade | A tendency to "behave more compassionately towards a small number of identifiable victims than to a large number of anonymous ones". A bias of extension neglect. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 136_cb | |
| choice-support bias | choice-support bias, choice-supportive bias, defensiveness, myside bias | A fallacy and bias in which "after one has taken a given decision, commitment or course of action, one automatically tends to defend that decision and to irrationally dismiss opposing options even when one's decision later on proves to be shaky or wrong". A "fallacy of ethos (one's own)". See also argument from inertia, confirmation bias. | [3], [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 416_cb_lf |
| myside bias | choice-support bias, choice-supportive bias, defensiveness, myside bias | A fallacy and bias in which "after one has taken a given decision, commitment or course of action, one automatically tends to defend that decision and to irrationally dismiss opposing options even when one's decision later on proves to be shaky or wrong". A "fallacy of ethos (one's own)". See also argument from inertia, confirmation bias. | [3], [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-05 | 463_lf |
| post hoc argument | post hoc argument, post hoc propter hoc, post hoc ergo propter hoc, too much of a coincidence, clustering illusion | A "classic paranoiac fallacy of attributing an imaginary causality to random coincidences, concluding that just because something happens close to, at the same time as, or just after something else, the first thing is caused by the second". See also: cum hoc ergo propter hoc, correlation implies causation. | [3], [6] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-05 | 606_lf |
| you can't win if you don't play | An obverse of: Hoyle's fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-05 | 676_lf | |
| post hoc ergo propter hoc | post hoc argument, post hoc propter hoc, post hoc ergo propter hoc, too much of a coincidence, clustering illusion | A "classic paranoiac fallacy of attributing an imaginary causality to random coincidences, concluding that just because something happens close to, at the same time as, or just after something else, the first thing is caused by the second". See also: cum hoc ergo propter hoc, correlation implies causation. | [3], [6] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-05 | 832_lf |
| post hoc propter hoc | post hoc argument, post hoc propter hoc, post hoc ergo propter hoc, too much of a coincidence, clustering illusion | A "classic paranoiac fallacy of attributing an imaginary causality to random coincidences, concluding that just because something happens close to, at the same time as, or just after something else, the first thing is caused by the second". See also: cum hoc ergo propter hoc, correlation implies causation. | [3], [6] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-05 | 833_lf |
| someone's going to win and it might as well be you | An obverse of: Hoyle's fallacy. | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-05 | 863_lf | |
| etymological fallacy | etymological fallacy, underlying meaning | A fallacy of "drawing false conclusions from the...linguistic origins of a current word" or the "alleged meanings or associations of that word in another langauge". "A fallacy of logos."" | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-06 | 084_lf |
| conformity | A tendency to fit in regardless of logic. Forms of conformity bias include: availabilty cascade, bandwagon effect, courtesy bias, groupthink, groupshift, social desirabiltyy bias, truth bias/ | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-06 | 138_cb | |
| congruence bias | A tendency "to test hypotheses exclusively through direct testing, instead of testing possible alternative hypotheses". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-06 | 139_cb | |
| conjunction fallacy | A tendency to "assume that specific conditions are more probable than a more general version of those same conditions". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-06 | 140_cb | |
| duration neglect | The "neglect of the duration of an episode in determining its value". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-06 | 162_cb | |
| motte and bailey doctrine | motte and bailey doctrine, motte and bailey fallacy | A fallacy of conflating two similar positions, one easier to defend and one much more controversial and harder to defend, in which the arguer "advances the controversial position, but when challenged, insists that only the more modest position is being advanced", then claims that the more controversial position has not been refuted. Ain informal fallacy. | [5] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-06 | 371_lf |
| underlying meaning | etymological fallacy, underlying meaning | A fallacy of "drawing false conclusions from the...linguistic origins of a current word" or the "alleged meanings or associations of that word in another langauge". "A fallacy of logos."" | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-06 | 893_lf |
| regressive bias | conservatism bias, regressive bias | As a memory cognitive bias, the tendency "to remember high values and high likelihoods/probabilities/frequencies as lower than they actually were and low ones as higher than they actually were" ("memories are not extreme enough"). | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 064_ | |
| anthropic bias | anthropic bias, anthropic principle, anthropic selection effect, observation selection effect | The tendency for observations about the universe to only be made when there is someone to observe the data or to do the study. Subforms include: weak anthropic principle (universe fine tuning being the result of survivorship bias), strong anthropic principle (the universe being compleled to have conscious, sapient life), participatory anthropic principle (the universe must be observed to exist), final anthropic principle (informational processing as inherent to universe existence). An example of: selection effect. | [19], [20] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 069_ |
| motte and bailey fallacy | motte and bailey doctrine, motte and bailey fallacy | A fallacy of conflating two similar positions, one easier to defend and one much more controversial and harder to defend, in which the arguer "advances the controversial position, but when challenged, insists that only the more modest position is being advanced", then claims that the more controversial position has not been refuted. Ain informal fallacy. | [5] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 095_lf |
| heroes all | everybody's a winner, heroes all | A fallacy holding that "everyone is above average or extraordinary". Opposite is: all the king's men. See also: hero-busting, identity fallacy, perfect is the enemy of good. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 096_lf |
| large-sample bias | A tendency for a model based on large samples of data to under-represent, or not represent, valid and important components that only appeared in a small portion of the sampled data. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 137_ | ||
| conservatism bias | conservatism bias, regressive bias | As an anchoring cognitive bias, the tendency "to insufficiently revise one's belief when presented with new evidence". As a memory cognitive bias, the tendency "to remember high values and high likelihoods/probabilities/frequencies as lower than they actually were and low ones as higher than they actually were" ("memories are not extreme enough") [in this sense also known as regressive bias]. See also, as a logical fallacy: conservative bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 141_cb |
| context effect | The tendency for "out-of-context memories" to be "mopre difficult to retrieve than in-context memories". A memory bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 142_cb | |
| context neglect bias | A tendency to "neglect the human context of technological challenges". A framing effect bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 143_cb | |
| continued influence effect | A tendency for misinformation to "influence memory and reasoning about an event, despite the misinformation having been corrected". See also: misinformation effect. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 144_cb | |
| contrast effect | The "enhancement or reduction of a certain stimulus's perception when compared with a recently observed, contrasting object". An example of: framing effect. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 145_cb | |
| courtesy bias | The tendency to "give an opinion that is more socially correct than one's true opinion, so as to avoid offending anyone". An example of: conformity. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 146_cb | |
| cross-race effect | The tendency "for people of one race to have difficulty identifying members of a race other than their own". An example of: memory bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 147_cb | |
| cryptomnesia | The tendency in which "a memory is mistaken for novel thought or imagination, because there is no subjective experience of it being a memory". An example of: misattribution of memory. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 148_cb | |
| curse of knowledge | A tendency in whcih "better-informed people find it extremely difficult to think about problems from the perspective of lesser-informed people". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 149_cb | |
| current moment bias | current moment bias, hyperbolic discounting, present bias | A tendency "for people to have a stronger preference for more immediate payoffs relative to later payoffs". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 150_cb |
| dehumanised perception | dehumanised perception, dehumanization | As a cognitive bias: a phenomenon of "not attributing feelings or thoughts to another person"; a form of: objectification. As a logical fallacy: a "faulty analogy where opponents are dismissed as mere cockroaches, lice, apes, monkeys, rats, weasels or bloodsucking parasites who have no right to speak or to live at all, and probably should be squashed like bugs"; opposite of: Polyanna principle, projection bias, singing kumbay, they're just like us; see also: identity fallacy, name calling, olfactory rhetoric. | [3], [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 151_cb |
| declinism | A "predisposition to view the past favorably...and future negatively". See also: rosy retrospection. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 152_cb | |
| decoy effect | A phenomenon in which "preferences for either option A or B change in favor of option B when option C is presented, which is completely dominated by option B (inferior in all respects) and partially dominated by option A". An example of: framing effect. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 153_cb | |
| default effect | A tendency "to favor the default option when given a choice between several options". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 154_cb | |
| defensive attribution hypothesis | A tendency to "attribute more blame to a harm-doer as the outcome becomes more severe or as personal or situational similarity to the victim increases". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 155_cb | |
| denomination effect | A tendency "to spend more money when it is denominated in small amounts (e.g., coins) rather than large amounts (e.g., bills)". An example of: framing effect. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 156_cb | |
| dynamic inconsistency | dynamic inconsistency, time inconsistency | A scenario in which "a decision-maker's preferences change over time in such a way that a preference can become inconsistent at another point in time". See also: current moment bias, hyperbiolic discounting, present bias | [6], [21] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 163_cb |
| framing effect | The tendency to "draw different conclusions from the same information, depending on how that information is presented". Examples include: contrast effect, decoy effect, default effect, denomination effect, distinction bias, domain neglect bias, context neglect bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 183_cb | |
| hyperbolic discounting | current moment bias, hyperbolic discounting, present bias | A tendency "for people to have a stronger preference for more immediate payoffs relative to later payoffs". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 212_cb |
| misattribution of memory | A tendency for a person recalling a memory to misidentify the origin of the memory. Examples include: cryptomnesia, false memory, social crytomnesia, source confusion, suggestibility, Perky effect. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 245_cb | |
| misinformation effect | The tendency for an "original memory" to be "affected by incorrect information received later" ("a person's recall of episodic memories becomes less accurate because of post-event information"). | [6], [18] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 246_cb | |
| present bias | current moment bias, hyperbolic discounting, present bias | A tendency "for people to have a stronger preference for more immediate payoffs relative to later payoffs". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 284_cb |
| selection bias | selection bias, selection effect | The result when "the members of a statistical sample are not chosen completely at random", and as a result, the sample is "not representative of the population". An example of: availability heuristic. | [6], [20] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 311_cb |
| Perky effect | A tendency "real images" to "influence imagined images, or be misremembered as imagined rather than real". An example of: misattribution of memory. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 346_cb | |
| everybody's a winner | everybody's a winner, heroes all | A fallacy holding that "everyone is above average or extraordinary". Opposite is: all the king's men. See also: hero-busting, identity fallacy, perfect is the enemy of good. | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 434_lf | |
| selection effect | selection bias, selection effect | The result when "the members of a statistical sample are not chosen completely at random", and as a result, the sample is "not representative of the population". An example of: availability heuristic. | [6], [20] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-07 | 469_cb |
| anthropic principle | anthropic bias, anthropic principle, anthropic selection effect, observation selection effect | The tendency for observations about the universe to only be made when there is someone to observe the data or to do the study. Subforms include: weak anthropic principle (universe fine tuning being the result of survivorship bias), strong anthropic principle (the universe being compleled to have conscious, sapient life), participatory anthropic principle (the universe must be observed to exist), final anthropic principle (informational processing as inherent to universe existence). An example of: selection effect. | [19], [20] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-07 | 507_ |
| anthropic selection effect | anthropic bias, anthropic principle, anthropic selection effect | [19] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-07 | 514_ | |
| dehumanization | dehumanised perception, dehumanization | As a cognitive bias: a phenomenon of "not attributing feelings or thoughts to another person"; a form of: objectification. As a logical fallacy: a "faulty analogy where opponents are dismissed as mere cockroaches, lice, apes, monkeys, rats, weasels or bloodsucking parasites who have no right to speak or to live at all, and probably should be squashed like bugs"; opposite of: Polyanna principle, projection bias, singing kumbay, they're just like us; see also: identity fallacy, name calling, olfactory rhetoric. | [3], [6] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-07 | 517_cb_lf |
| Pollyanna principle | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-07 | 604_lf | ||
| observation selection effect | anthropic bias, anthropic principle, anthropic selection effect, observation selection effect | The tendency for observations about the universe to only be made when there is someone to observe the data or to do the study. Subforms include: weak anthropic principle (universe fine tuning being the result of survivorship bias), strong anthropic principle (the universe being compleled to have conscious, sapient life), participatory anthropic principle (the universe must be observed to exist), final anthropic principle (informational processing as inherent to universe existence). An example of: selection effect. | [19], [20] | 2024-06-16 | 2024-07-07 | 691_lf |
| time inconsistency | dynamic inconsistency, time inconsistency | A scenario in which "a decision-maker's preferences change over time in such a way that a preference can become inconsistent at another point in time". See also: current moment bias, hyperbiolic discounting, present bias. | [6], [21] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-07 | 704_cb |
| plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose | the more things change the more they stay the same | Literally, "the more things change, the more they stay the same" | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-07 | 829_lf |
| self deception | self deception, self fooling | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-08 | 627_lf | |
| Texas sharpshooter fallacy | A fallacy in which "differences in data are ignored, but similarities are overemphasized". An "informal fallacy". | [22] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-08 | 708_ | |
| self fooling | self deception, self fooling | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-08 | 712_lf | ||
| disposition effect | A tendency "sell an asset that has accumulated in value and resist selling an asset that has declined in value". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 157_cb | |
| distinction bias | A tendency to "view two options as more dissimilar when evaluating them simultaneously than when evaluating them separately". An example of: framing effect. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 158_cb | |
| domain neglect bias | A trendency "neglect relevant domain knowledge while solving interdisciplinary problems". An example of: framing effect. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 159_cb | |
| dread aversion | The tendency for dread to "double the emotional impact of savouring". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 160_cb | |
| effort justification | A tendency to "attribute greater value to an outcome if they had to put effort into achieving it". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 164_cb | |
| end-of-history illusion | A an "age-independent" tendency to "believe that one will change less in the future than one has in the past". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 166_cb | |
| endowment effect | A tendency "for people to demand much more to give up an object than they would be willing to pay to acquire it". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 167_cb | |
| escalation of commitment | escalation of commitment, irrational escalation, sunk cost fallacy | A tendency in which "people justify increased investment in a decision, based on the cumulative prior investment, despite new evidence suggesting that the decision was probably wrong". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 168_cb |
| euphoric recall | A tendency to "remember past experiences in a positive light, while overlooking negative experiences associated with that even". A type of: memory bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 169_cb | |
| exaggerated expectation | A tendency to "expect or predict more extreme outcomes than those outcomes that actually happen". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 170_cb | |
| expectation bias | expectation bias, experimenter's bias | A tendency "for experimenters to believe, certify, and publish data that agree with their expectations for the outcome of an experiment, and to disbelieve, discard, or downgrade the corresponding weightings for data that appear to conflict with those expectations". An example of: confirmation bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 171_cb |
| experimenter's bias | expectation bias, experimenter's bias | A tendency "for experimenters to believe, certify, and publish data that agree with their expectations for the outcome of an experiment, and to disbelieve, discard, or downgrade the corresponding weightings for data that appear to conflict with those expectations". An example of: confirmation bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 172_cb |
| extension neglect | A senario in which "the quantity of the sample size is not sufficiently taken into consideration when assessing the outcome, relevance or judgement". Examples include: base rate fallacy, compassion fade, conjunction fallacy, duration neglect, hyperbolic discounting, insensitivity to sample size, less-is-better effect, neglect of probability, scope insensitivity, scope neglect, zero-risk bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 173_cb | |
| extrinsic incentives bias | A scenario in which "people view others as having (situational) extrinsic motivations and (dispositional) intrinsic motivations for oneself". An exception to: fundamental attribution error. A form of: attribution bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 174_cb | |
| fading affect bias | A tendency in which "the emotion associated with unpleasant memories fades more quickly than the emotion associated with positive events". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 175_cb | |
| false consensus effect | A tendency to "overestimate the degree to which others agree with them". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 176_cb | |
| false memory | A scenarion in which "imagination is mistaken for a memory". A form of: misattribution of memory. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 177_cb | |
| false priors | A scenarion in which "initial beliefs and knowledge ... interfere with the unbiased evaluation of factual evidence and lead to incorrect conclusions". Examples include: agent detection bias, automation bias, gender bias, sexual overperception bias, stereotyping. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 178_cb | |
| false uniqueness bias | A tendency people have to "see their projects and themselves as more singular than they actually are". A form of: egocentric bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 179_cb | |
| familiarity principle | familiarity principle, mere exposure principle | A tendency to "express undue liking for things merely because of familiarity with them". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 180_cb |
| Forer effect | Barnum effect, Forer effect | A tendency "for individuals to give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically for them, but are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people". A form of egocentric bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 181_cb |
| form function attribution bias | A tendnecy of people "to make systematic errors when interacting with a robot""based on its appearance (form)". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 182_cb | |
| functional fixedness | A tendenency "limiting a person to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 185_cb | |
| irrational escalation | escalation of commitment, irrational escalation, sunk cost fallacy | A tendency in which "people justify increased investment in a decision, based on the cumulative prior investment, despite new evidence suggesting that the decision was probably wrong". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 231_cb_lf |
| mere exposure effect | familiarity principle, mere exposure principle | A tendency to "express undue liking for things merely because of familiarity with them". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 244_cb |
| suggestibility | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 335_cb_lf | ||
| sunk cost fallacy | escalation of commitment, irrational escalation, sunk cost fallacy | A tendency in which "people justify increased investment in a decision, based on the cumulative prior investment, despite new evidence suggesting that the decision was probably wrong". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-09 | 336_cb_lf |
| straw man argument | straw man, straw man argument, strawman | A subtype of red herring. A component fallacy. | [1], [2] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 015_lf |
| whataboutism | whataboutery, whataboutism | See also: appeal to a lack of evidence, appeal to ignorance, argumentum ad ignorantiam, and argument from ignorance. | [3] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 055_lf |
| fundamental attribution error | attribution error, fundamental attribution error, self justification | A tendency to assume that others' (poor) behavior results from character defects (personality) while under-emphasizing the influence of the situation on others' behavior, while, at the same time, one's own behavior is held to be due to environmental factors (situtation). A "corrupt argument from ethos". Obverse is: self debasement, self deprecation. See also: group attribution error, ultimate attribution error. | [3], [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 090_cb_lf |
| intergroup bias | group-serving bias, intergroup bias, in-group bias, in-group favoritism, in-group-out-group bias, in-group preference | A tendency to favor members of a social group to which one blogs over people who are not members of that social group. | [6], [23] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 161_cb |
| in-group favoritism | group-serving bias, intergroup bias, in-group bias, in-group favoritism, in-group-out-group bias, in-group preference | A tendency to favor members of a social group to which one blogs over people who are not members of that social group. | [6], [23] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 186_cb |
| fundamental pain bias | A tendency "for people to believe they accurately report their own pain levels while holding the paradoxical belief that others exaggerate it". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 187_cb | |
| G. I. Joe fallacy | A tendency to "think that knowing about cognitive bias is enough to overcome it". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 188_cb | |
| gambler's fallacy | A tendency to "think that future probabilities are altered by past events, when in reality they are unchanged". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 189_cb | |
| gender bias | A "set of implicit biases that discriminate against a gender". Examples: "the assumption that women are less suited to jobs requiring high intellectual ability" and "the assumption that people or animals are male in the absence of any indicators of gender". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 190_cb | |
| gender differences in eyewitness memory | A tendency "for a witness to remember more details about someone of the same gender". A memory bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 191_cb | |
| generation effect | generation effect, self-generation effect | A tendnecy in which "self-generated information is remembered best". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 192_cb |
| self-generation effect | generation effect, self-generation effect | A tendnecy in which "self-generated information is remembered best". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 193_cb |
| Google effect | A tendency to "forget information that can be found readily online by using Internet search engines". A memory bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 194_cb | |
| group attribution error | A tendency to believe that "the characteristics of an individual group member are reflective of the group as a whole" or to "assume that group decision outcomes reflect the preferences of group members" "even when information is available that clearly suggests otherwise". Example of: attribution bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 195_cb | |
| group-serving bias | group-serving bias, intergroup bias, in-group bias, in-group favoritism, in-group-out-group bias, in-group preference | A tendency to favor members of a social group to which one blogs over people who are not members of that social group. | [6], [23] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 196_cb |
| groupshift | A tendency "for decisions to be more risk-seeking or risk-averse than the group as a whole, if the group is already biased in that direction". Example of: conformity. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 197_cb | |
| groupthink | A tendency in which "the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome" as people "try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative viewpoints by actively suppressing dissenting viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences". Example of: conformity. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 198_cb | |
| hard–easy effect | A tendency "to overestimate one's ability to accomplish hard tasks, and underestimate one's ability to accomplish easy tasks". Category of bias: self-assessment. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 200_cb | |
| hedonic recall bias | A tendency "for people who are satisfied with their wage to overestimate how much they earn, and vice versa, for people who are unsatisfied with their wage to underestimate it". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 201_cb | |
| in-group bias | group-serving bias, intergroup bias, in-group bias, in-group favoritism, in-group-out-group bias, in-group preference | A tendency to favor members of a social group to which one blogs over people who are not members of that social group. | [6], [23] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 225_cb |
| self justification | attribution error, fundamental attribution error, self justification | A tendency to assume that others' (poor) behavior results from character defects (personality) while under-emphasizing the influence of the situation on others' behavior, while, at the same time, one's own behavior is held to be due to environmental factors (situtation). A "corrupt argument from ethos". Obverse is: self debasement, self deprecation. See also: group attribution error, ultimate attribution error. | [3], [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-10 | 476_lf |
| straw man | straw man, straw man argument, strawman | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-10 | 646_lf | |
| attribution error | attribution error, fundamental attribution error, self justification | A tendency to assume that others' (poor) behavior results from character defects (personality) while under-emphasizing the influence of the situation on others' behavior, while, at the same time, one's own behavior is held to be due to environmental factors (situtation). A "corrupt argument from ethos". Obverse is: self debasement, self deprecation. See also: group attribution error, ultimate attribution error. | [3], [6] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-10 | 705_lf |
| in-group-out-group bias | group-serving bias, intergroup bias, in-group bias, in-group favoritism, in-group-out-group bias, in-group preference | A tendency to favor members of a social group to which one blogs over people who are not members of that social group. | [6], [23] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-10 | 715_cb |
| in-group preference | group-serving bias, intergroup bias, in-group bias, in-group favoritism, in-group-out-group bias, in-group preference | A tendency to favor members of a social group to which one blogs over people who are not members of that social group. | [6], [23] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-10 | 717_cb |
| strawman | straw man, straw man argument, strawman | [3] | 2024-06-12 | 2024-07-10 | 828_lf | |
| whataboutery | whataboutery, whataboutism | See also: appeal to a lack of evidence, appeal to ignorance, argumentum ad ignorantiam, and argument from ignorance. | [3] | 2024-07-10 | 917_lf | |
| Ben Franklin effect | An bias in which "a person who has performed a favor for someone is more likely to do another favor for that person than they would be if they had received a favor from that person". Bias category: cognitive dissonance. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 123_cb | |
| herd behavior | A tendency of "individuals in a group acting collectively without centralized direction". | [6], [24] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 202_cb | |
| hindsight bias | hindsight bias, hindsight is 20/20 effect, I-knew-it-all-along effect | A tendency to "see past events as having been predictable". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 203_cb |
| I-knew-it-all-along effect | hindsight bias, hindsight is 20/20, I-knew-it-all-along effect | A tendency to "see past events as having been predictable". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 204_cb |
| hindsight is 20/20 effect | hindsight bias, hindsight is 20/20, I-knew-it-all-along effect | A tendency to "see past events as having been predictable". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 205_cb |
| hostile attribution bias | A tendency to "interpret others' behaviors as having hostile intent, even when the behavior is ambiguous or benign". A form of: attribution bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 206_cb | |
| hot-cold empathy gap | A tendency to "underestimate the influence of visceral drives on one's attitudes, preferences, and behaviors". Bias category: self-assessment. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 207_cb | |
| hot hand | hot hand, hot-hand fallacy, hot hand phenomenon | A tendency to believe that "a person who has experienced success with a random event has a greater chance of further success in additional attempts". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 208_cb |
| hot hand phenomenon | hot hand, hot-hand fallacy, hot hand phenomenon | A tendency to believe that "a person who has experienced success with a random event has a greater chance of further success in additional attempts". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 209_cb |
| hot-hand fallacy | hot hand, hot-hand fallacy, hot hand phenomenon | A tendency to believe that "a person who has experienced success with a random event has a greater chance of further success in additional attempts". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 210_cb |
| humor effect | A tendency for "humorous items" to be "more easily remembered than non-humorous ones". A form of: memory bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 211_cb | |
| IKEA effect | A tendency "for people to place a disproportionately high value on objects that they partially assembled themselves". Ane xample of: effort justification. Bias category: cognitive dissonance. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 214_cb | |
| modality effect | A tendency in which "memory recall is higher for the last items of a list when the list items were received via speech than when they were received through writing". A form of memory bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 247_cb | |
| normalcy bias | A tendency to refuse "to plan for, or react to, a disaster which has never happened before". Bias category: cognitive dissonance. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 260_cb | |
| not invented here | A tendency to dislike or avoid the "contact with or use of products, research, standards, or knowledge developed outside a group". Example of: ingroup bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 261_cb | |
| objectification | A tendency to treat "a person as an object or a thing". See also: anthropomorphism, dehumanised perception, dehumanization. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 262_cb | |
| optimism bias | A tendency "to be over-optimistic, underestimating greatly the probability of undesirable outcomes and overestimating favorable and pleasing outcomes". Opposite of: pessimism bias. See also: positive outcome bias, valence effect, wishful thinking. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 266_cb | |
| outgroup favoritism | A tendency in which "some socially disadvantaged groups will express favorable attitudes (and even preferences) toward social, cultural, or ethnic groups other than their own". A form of: social bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 269_cb | |
| outgroup homogeneity bias | A tendency in which "individuals see members of other groups as being relatively less varied than members of their own group". A form of: ingroup bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 270_cb | |
| overconfidence effect | A tendency to "have excessive confidence in one's own answers to questions". A form of: egocentric bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 271_cb | |
| pareidolia | A tendency to "to perceive a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) as significant". A form of: apophenia. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 272_cb | |
| part-list cueing effect | A tendency in which "being shown some items from a list and later retrieving one item causes it to become harder to retrieve the other items". A form of: memory bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 273_cb | |
| peak–end rule | A tendency in which "people seem to perceive not the sum of an experience but the average of how it was at its peak (e.g., pleasant or unpleasant) and how it ended". A form of: memory bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 274_cb | |
| persistence | A tendency for a traumatic event to result in unwanted recurrence of memories. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 275_cb | |
| pessimism bias | A tendency "for some people...to overestimate the likelihood of negative things happening to them". See also: cynicism. Opposite of: optimism bias. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 276_cb | |
| picture superiority effect | A tendency in which "concepts that are learned by viewing pictures are more easily and frequently recalled than are concepts that are learned by viewing their written word form counterparts." | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 277_cb | |
| placement bias | A tendency to "remember ourselves to be better than others at tasks at which we rate ourselves above average" and "to remember ourselves to be worse than others at tasks at which we rate ourselves below average". See also: better-than-average effect, illusory superiority, worse-than-average effect. | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 278_cb | |
| plan continuation bias | A tendency to fail to "recognize that the original plan of action is no longer appropriate for a changing situation or for a situation that is different from anticipated". | [6] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-11 | 279_cb_lf | |
| argument from nature | appeal to nature | 2024-07-11 | 2024-07-11 | 918_lf | ||
| naturalistic fallacy | G.E. Moore's naturalistic fallacy, naturalistic fallacy | A fallacy of inferring "that X is good from any proposition about X’s natural properties". Different than: "argument from nature", "the appeal to nature". | [25] | 2024-07-11 | 919_lf | |
| G.E. Moore's naturalistic fallacy | G.E. Moore's naturalistic fallacy, naturalistic fallacy | A fallacy of inferring "that X is good from any proposition about X’s natural properties". Different than: "argument from nature", "the appeal to nature". | [25] | 2024-07-11 | 2024-07-11 | 920_lf |
| greedflation fallacy | A mistaken belief that "corporate greed causes inflation". A fallacy surrounding: capitalism. | [27] | 2024-06-11 | 2024-07-15 | 213_lf | |
| Scrooge McDuck fallacy | A mistaken belief that "wealthy peole hoard their money in bank vaults". A fallacy surrounding: capitalism. | [27] | 2024-07-15 | 2024-07-15 | 921_lf | |
| golden age fallacy | A mistaken belief that people "should strive to return to" a "perfect time in history" that existed. A fallacy surrounding: capitalism. | [27] | 2024-07-15 | 2024-07-15 | 922_lf | |
| corporate tax dodge callacy | A mistaken belief that "corporations don't pay any tax". A fallacy surrounding: capitalism. | [27] | 2024-07-15 | 2024-07-15 | 923_lf | |
| fair share fallacy | A mistaken belief that "the rich pay no tax". A fallacy surrounding: capitalism. | [27] | 2024-07-15 | 2024-07-15 | 924_lf | |
| wage dictation fallacy | A mistaken belief that "salaries are set by individual companies or the government, and that some salaries are artificially inflated or deflated". A fallacy surrounding: capitalism. | [27] | 2024-07-15 | 2024-07-15 | 925_lf | |
| rent control fallacy | A mistaken belief that "rent caps lower prices". A fallacy surrounding: capitalism. | [27] | 2024-07-15 | 2024-07-15 | 926_lf | |
| affordable units fallacy | A mistaken belief that "building luxury apartmente doesn't improve the affordabilty of existing appartments, or even that it increases their prices". A fallacy surrounding: capitalism. | [27] | 2024-07-15 | 2024-07-15 | 927_lf | |
| fixed pie fallacy | A mistaken belief that "there is a fixed pie of wealth, and every winner creates a loser". A fallacy surrounding: capitalism. | [27] | 2024-07-15 | 2024-07-15 | 928_lf | |
| work exploitation fallacy | A mistaken belief that "employment is a form of exploitation". A fallacy surrounding: capitalism. | [27] | 2024-07-15 | 2024-07-15 | 929_lf | |
| unaffordable innovation fallacy | A mistaken belief that "technology is unaffordable and is only for the rich". A fallacy surrounding: capitalism. | [27] | 2024-07-15 | 2024-07-15 | 930_lf | |
| scarcity fallacy | A mistaken belief that "earth is ru nning out of resources". A fallacy surrounding: capitalism. | [27] | 2024-07-15 | 2024-07-15 | 931_lf |
References
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Clarification
Conceptually, cognitive biases are considered distinct from logical fallacies. The cb and lf suffixes in the id column roughly distinguish these categories. Logical fallacies represent argumentation errors, whereas cognitive biases describe mental tendencies that could result in processing errors. Both phenomenon types could result in errors in thought or decision. The list is combined for convenient lookups.