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That Would Be Illogical

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Mr. Spock didn't need this list. But the rest of us might find it useful, if we have a point to prove.
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about 1 year ago AbraxasZugzwang said:

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: argumentum ad nauseam (what a perfectly cutting and intelligent way to say, "gag me."), argumentum ad ignorantiam, argumentum ad numerum, argumentum ad populum, non sequitur, and tu quoque.

about 1 year ago Valse said:

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).

ad verecundiam (appeal to unreliable authority)
ad populum (appeal to the people)
ad baculum (appeal to force)
post hoc ergo propter hoc
equivocation
amphibole (one of my personal favorite forms of ambiguity that refers to the grammatical sort). According to Wikipedia it's amphibology, as amphibole is a type of mineral

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