The Daily Parker

On July 27th I began a series on common logical fallacies. Each entry provides a brief description and a couple of examples. Here are all the posts:

Fallacies of irrelevant conclusion

• Argument to the person, 27 July 2019.
• Argument to popularity, 27 July 2019.
• Argument to ignorance, 28 July 2019.
• Argument to pity, 28 July 2019.
• Argument to awe, 2 August 2019.
• Argument to force, 2 August 2019.
• Red herring, 4 August 2019.

Material fallacies

• Argument by accident (overgeneralizing), 5 August 2019.
• Converse accident (hasty generalization), 5 August 2019.
• Begging the question, 6 August 2019.
• Circular reasoning, 6 August 2019.
• False cause: post hoc reasoning, 8 August 2019.
• False cause: reduction to the absurd, 8 August 2019.
• Complex question, 17 August 2019.
• Non sequitur, 23 August 2019.

I'll update this list as I post new examples.