Prompt 4 of 7
Name a logical fallacy
135 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Ignoratio elenchi— Aristotle catalogued this Latin name for missing the point entirely.
85 ptsDeep Cut91 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Accident fallacy
- Ad hoc rescue
- Affirming a disjunct
- Affirming the consequent
- Appeal to accomplishment
- Appeal to flattery
- Appeal to motive
- Appeal to poverty
- Appeal to probability
- Appeal to ridicule
- Appeal to spite
- Appeal to the stone
- Appeal to wealth
- Argument from repetition
- Argument from silence
- Baconian fallacy
- Base rate fallacy
- Bulverism
- Chronological snobbery
- Conjunction fallacy
- Continuum fallacy
- Courtier's reply
- Definitional retreat
- Denying a conjunct
- Denying the antecedent
- Division fallacy
- Doorman fallacy
- Double counting
- Ecological fallacy
- Etymological fallacy
- Exclusive premises
- Existential fallacy
- Fallacy of accent
- Fallacy of four terms
- Fallacy of relative privation
- Fallacy of the single cause
- False attribution
- Furtive fallacy
- Galileo gambit
- Gish gallop— Named for creationist Duane Gish, who buried debate opponents in claims.
- Goomba fallacy
- Historian's fallacy
- Homunculus fallacy
- I'm entitled to my opinion
- If-by-whiskey
- Ignoring a common cause
- Illicit major
- Illicit minor
- Incomplete comparison
- Inflation of conflict
- Inverse gambler's fallacy
- Invincible ignorance
- Kettle logic
- Logic chopping
- Loki's wager
- Ludic fallacy
- Lump of labour fallacy
- Magical thinking
- Masked man fallacy
- McNamara fallacy
- Middle ground fallacy
- Mind projection fallacy
- Misleading vividness
- Modal fallacy
- Moralistic fallacy
- Nirvana fallacy
- Nutpicking
- Overwhelming exception
- Package deal fallacy
- Persuasive definition
- Politician's syllogism
- Pooh-pooh
- Proof by assertion
- Prosecutor's fallacy
- Proving too much
- Psychologist's fallacy
- Regression fallacy
- Reification
- Retrospective determinism
- Slothful induction
- Special pleading
- Style over substance
- Suppressed correlative
- Survivorship bias— A bias by name, but Wikipedia's fallacy list claims it anyway.
- Texas sharpshooter
- Thought-terminating cliché
- Tone policing
- Traitorous critic fallacy
- Undistributed middle
- Wishful thinking
- Wrong direction
60 ptsRare31 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Anecdotal fallacy
- Appeal to consequences
- Appeal to fear
- Appeal to force
- Appeal to ignorance
- Appeal to nature
- Appeal to novelty
- Appeal to pity
- Appeal to tradition
- Association fallacy
- Composition fallacy
- Cum hoc ergo propter hoc
- Equivocation
- False analogy
- False equivalence
- Gambler's fallacy
- Genetic fallacy
- Hasty generalization
- Loaded question
- Motte and bailey
- Moving the goalposts
- Naturalistic fallacy
- Non sequitur
- Personal incredulity
- Poisoning the well
- Post hoc
- Quoting out of context
- Shifting the burden of proof
- Sunk cost fallacy
- Tu quoque
- Two wrongs make a right
30 ptsSchooler8 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Appeal to authority
- Appeal to emotion
- Bandwagon
- Begging the question
- Cherry picking
- False dilemma
- No true Scotsman
- Red herring
15 ptsToo Clever1 answer
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Fallacy fallacy— Assuming a badly-argued conclusion must be false is itself fallacious.
10 ptsPlankton3 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Ad hominem
- Slippery slope
- Strawman