365 Days Of Philosophy

Here’s all the major fallacies covered this year on the 365DaysOfPhilosophy: weasel words, slippery slope, appeal to authority, straw man, argument from ignorance, shifting the goalposts, post hoc ergo propter hoc, appeal to popularity, ad hominem, tu quoque, cum hoc ergo propter hoc, anecdotal fallacy, red herring, no true Scotsman fallacy, begging the question, hasty generalisation, false dilemma, and reductio ad absurdum. See if you can identify nine of them in the examples below: Her low level of sophistication and engagement with the case leads me to think that she hasn’t got enough relevance to the importance of the job. On average, if your dog goes to the Jones training school, it behaves worse. Therefore, if you go to Jones training school, you’ll have a badly trained dog. After voting for Lewis, we know he’ll become president and then legalise all the illegal drugs and make the country worse than ever before because of your vote. Joe may say he has the best pizza but we all know he’s a horrible per