The Fallacy Detective

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Across
  1. 8. Changing or exaggerating an opponent's position to make it easier to refute.
  2. 9. Claiming one’s view- point is correct just because many other people agree with it.
  3. 12. Attempting to prove a conclusion by simply restating it. Someone says “P is true because Q is true, and Q is true because P is true.:
  4. 14. Dismissing another person’s viewpoint on an issue because the speaker is inconsistent in that very thing. It means “You too.”
  5. 15. Assuming that since A happened before B, A must have caused B
  6. 18. Asserting that what is true of something as a whole must also be true of each of its parts. This is the reverse of the part-to-whole fallacy.
  7. 22. Generalizing about a class based upon a small or poor sample
  8. 26. Encouraging us to buy a product or do something because it is associated with something old
  9. 28. Which holiday happens next
  10. 29. Urging us to buy something because it is the “latest thing” - but not necessarily because it is the best thing
  11. 30. Claiming something is true simply because nobody has yet given any evidence that it is not
Down
  1. 1. Appealing to the authority of someone who has no special knowledge in the area he is discussing.
  2. 2. Asking one question which assumes the answer to a second question.
  3. 3. Repeating a message loudly and very often in the hope that we will believe it
  4. 4. Attacking an opponent’s character or his motives for believing something instead of disproving his argument.
  5. 5. Urging us to do something only because we pity someone, or we pity something associated with him
  6. 6. Assuming that if we take one step, nothing will stop us from taking a series of steps because each step is the same.
  7. 7. Claiming that some items with only minor similarities are the same in almost everything else
  8. 8. Using a double standard or arguing for an unjustified exception.
  9. 10. Offering nothing more than a time limit as a reason for us to do what someone wants
  10. 11. Pressuring us to do something just because many other people like us are doing it
  11. 13. Changing the meaning of a word in the middle of an argument.
  12. 16. Encouraging us to think someone’s product would make us better than or make us stand out from everybody else
  13. 17. The name of the place where you live
  14. 19. Asserting that we must choose between two things, when in fact we have more than two alternatives.
  15. 20. Asserting that what is true of part of something must also be true of the whole thing.
  16. 21. Introducing an irrelevant point into an argument. Someone may think it proves his side, but it really doesn’t.
  17. 23. Getting us to transfer our good or bad feelings about one thing to another unrelated thing
  18. 24. Condemning an argument because of where it began, how it began or who began it.
  19. 25. Moving us to fear the consequences of not doing what someone wants
  20. 27. Who taught this class