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A Look at the Informal Fallacies

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Informal fallacy
Absence paradox
Accident (fallacy)
A dicto simpliciter
Ad hominem
Ad nauseam
Animistic fallacy
Appeal to accomplishment
Appeal to consequences
Appeal to emotion
Appeal to fear
Appeal to flattery
Appeal to loyalty
Appeal to motive
Appeal to nature
Appeal to novelty
Appeal to pity
Appeal to ridicule
Appeal to spite
Appeal to tradition
Argument from authority
Argument from ignorance
Argument from silence
Argument to moderation
Argumentum ad baculum
Argumentum ad crumenam
Argumentum ad lapidem
Argumentum ad lazarum
Argumentum ad populum
Association fallacy
Begging the question
Blind men and an elephant
Bulverism
Cherry picking (fallacy)
Chronological snobbery
Circular reasoning
Complex question
Conjunction fallacy
Continuum fallacy
Converse accident
Correlation does not imply causation
Correlative-based fallacies
Denying the correlative
Direct reference theory
Duane Gish
Ecological fallacy
Equivocation
Etymological fallacy
Fallacy of composition
Fallacy of division
Fallacy of four terms
Fallacy of prescience
Fallacy of quoting out of context
Fallacy of relative privation
Fallacy of the single cause
False analogy
False attribution
False dilemma
False precision
Faulty generalization
Furtive fallacy
Gambler's fallacy
Genetic fallacy
Hasty generalization
Historian's fallacy
Homunculus argument
If-by-whiskey
Ignoratio elenchi
Incomplete comparison
Inconsistent comparison
Inverse gambler's fallacy
I'm entitled to my opinion
Ipse dixit
Judgmental language
Kettle logic
Loaded question
Loki's Wager
Ludic fallacy
McNamara fallacy
Mind projection fallacy
Misleading vividness
Moral high ground
Moralistic fallacy
Moving the goalposts
Name calling
Naturalistic fallacy
Nirvana fallacy
No true Scotsman
Overwhelming exception
Pathetic fallacy
Philosophic burden of proof
Poisoning the well
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Proof by intimidation
Prosecutor's fallacy
Proving too much
Psychologist's fallacy
Questionable cause
Rationalization (making excuses)
Red herring
Reductio ad Hitlerum
Regression fallacy
Reification (fallacy)
Retrospective determinism
Sampling bias
Slippery slope
Slothful induction
Special pleading
Straw man
Suppressed correlative
Syntactic ambiguity
Texas sharpshooter fallacy
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
Tu quoque
Two wrongs make a right
Wishful thinking
Wrong direction