http://wordie.org/people/uselessness?wl=3397#comments Comments for the word list 'That Would Be Illogical' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/people/uselessness?wl=3397#comments I'm currently teaching a debate class, so some of the logical fallacies are fresh in memory. There are many, but these are some I'm teaching: <a href="/words/argumentum ad nauseam">argumentum ad nauseam</a> (what a perfectly cutting and intelligent way to say, "gag me."), <a href="/words/argumentum ad ignorantiam">argumentum ad ignorantiam</a>, <a href="/words/argumentum ad numerum">argumentum ad numerum</a>, <a href="/words/argumentum ad populum">argumentum ad populum</a>, <a href="/words/non sequitur">non sequitur</a>, and <a href="/words/tu quoque">tu quoque</a>. Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:28:40 +0000 http://wordie.org/people/uselessness?wl=3397#comments http://wordie.org/people/uselessness?wl=3397#comments I'm going to seem like quite the Latin dork, but it's really just that I'm fresh out of an introductory logic course (and I may be a budding Latin dork at that). <br /><br />ad verecundiam (appeal to unreliable authority)<br />ad populum (appeal to the people)<br />ad baculum (appeal to force)<br />post hoc ergo propter hoc<br />equivocation<br />amphibole (one of my personal favorite forms of ambiguity that refers to the grammatical sort). According to Wikipedia it's <a href="/words/amphibology">amphibology</a>, as <a href="/words/amphibole">amphibole</a> is a type of mineral Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:54:18 +0000 http://wordie.org/people/uselessness?wl=3397#comments