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margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #009761; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#009761"><b>Cogito ergo sum</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Logic" title="Logic"><font size="4" color="White"><b>Logic and rhetoric</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Logic" title="Category:Logic"><img alt="Icon logic.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/9/99/Icon_logic.svg/100px-Icon_logic.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/9/99/Icon_logic.svg/150px-Icon_logic.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/9/99/Icon_logic.svg/200px-Icon_logic.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#009761; text-align:center;"><b>Key articles</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#FFFFFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Logical_fallacy" title="Logical fallacy">Logical fallacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syllogism" title="Syllogism">Syllogism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argument" title="Argument">Argument</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#009761; text-align:center;"><b>General logic</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#FFFFFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum" title="Reductio ad absurdum">Reductio ad absurdum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category_mistake" title="Category mistake">Category mistake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Relevance_logic" title="Relevance logic">Relevance logic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Didit_fallacy" title="Didit fallacy">Didit fallacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wrong_direction" title="Wrong direction">Wrong direction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Logically_Fallacious" title="Logically Fallacious">Logically Fallacious</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#009761; text-align:center;"><b>Bad logic</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#FFFFFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/One_single_proof" title="One single proof">One single proof</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_consequences" title="Appeal to consequences">Appeal to consequences</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Self-refuting_idea" title="Self-refuting idea">Self-refuting idea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Invincible_authority" title="Invincible authority">Invincible authority</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Didit_fallacy" title="Didit fallacy">Didit fallacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apophasis" title="Apophasis">Apophasis</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Logicnav" title="Template:Logicnav">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Logicnav" title="Template talk:Logicnav">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Logicnav&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div role="note" class="hatnote">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Loaded_question" title="Loaded question">Loaded question</a>.</div> <p><b>Loaded language</b> or <b>prejudicial language</b> is <a href="/wiki/Language" title="Language">language</a> intended to produce an emotional response in the mind of the audience, in order to directly affect their views on a topic. </p><p>The use of loaded language confers certain qualities to a statement that often amount to an <a href="/wiki/Emotional_appeal" class="mw-redirect" title="Emotional appeal">emotional appeal</a>. "<a href="/wiki/Liberal" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal">Liberal</a>", for instance, may be (and often is) used among <a href="/wiki/Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative">Conservatives</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> as an insult. <a href="/wiki/Independent_Baptist" title="Independent Baptist">Independent Baptists</a> don't even know how loaded they are with the terms, implying that the person so-labeled disregards normal moral standards. The true meaning of such a term often becomes obscured due to the prevalence of the coded meaning. </p><p>When the meaning is intentionally obfuscated in order to disparage a particular minority or belief without raising an alarm among those who would be offended by the meaning, it is sometimes called <a href="/wiki/Dog_whistle_politics" class="mw-redirect" title="Dog whistle politics">dog whistle politics</a>, after the idea (often not actually true) that the out-group can't hear the meaning in the hidden message behind the words. Whether or not the out-group gets it, the in-group knows <i>exactly</i> what is meant by the code. For example, in certain settings in <a href="/wiki/United_States_politics" title="United States politics">US politics</a>, claiming to be "tough on crime" might be intended to subtly convey or take advantage of <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racism</a>. Code words and dog whistle politics often use loaded language to convey their meaning to the in-group. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#In_politics"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">In politics</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Legislation"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Legislation</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Neologisms"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Neologisms</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Snarl_words"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Snarl words</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Glittering_generalities"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Glittering generalities</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="In_politics">In politics</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Loaded_language&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: In politics">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li>The "First home buyer's scheme" in <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> might equally well have been called "The house price support scheme" — reflecting the effect of giving free <a href="/wiki/Money" title="Money">money</a> to home buyers with which to buy homes, which is simply that house prices uptick by precisely that amount.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a> debate invariably evokes emotionally charged language and <a href="/wiki/False_analogy" title="False analogy">questionable analogies</a>. Opponents of abortion describe it as "child murder" or "infanticide", and describe themselves as "<a href="/wiki/Pro-life" title="Pro-life">pro-life</a>", implying a <a href="/wiki/False_dichotomy" class="mw-redirect" title="False dichotomy">false dichotomy</a> in which those who do not agree with them are seen as being opposed to life itself. Similarly, the <a href="/wiki/Pro-choice" title="Pro-choice">pro-choice</a> side couches its language in terms of <a href="/wiki/Freedom" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedom">freedom</a> in general, a strong element in the American mythos, deflecting as much attention from the <i>specific</i> freedom of abortion as possible, sometimes referring to opponents as "forced birthers".</li> <li>"Class warfare" is another one. While one might imagine it as a double-sided affair, the reality is much different-meaning; it invokes negative images of filthy, lazy laborers attacking hardworking rich folks. In recent years, especially with the advent of <a href="/wiki/OWS" class="mw-redirect" title="OWS">OWS</a>, it's now a cop-out against criticism and <a href="/wiki/Tax" title="Tax">tax</a> hikes for the rich. Many <a href="/wiki/Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative">conservative</a> <a href="/wiki/Pundit" title="Pundit">pundits</a> use the term to explain the war against the "job creators", not realizing they are invoking arguments penned by <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a> every time they do.</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/States%27_rights" title="States' rights">States' rights</a>" is a loaded term, because it has been used politically to raise race as a <a href="/wiki/Wedge_issue" title="Wedge issue">wedge issue</a>. While it's occasionally mentioned by <a href="/wiki/Libertarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Libertarian">libertarians</a> for other reasons, it's still heavily associated with racism elsewhere because the term was originally used to defend <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a> and later to defend <a href="/wiki/Jim_Crow" class="mw-redirect" title="Jim Crow">Jim Crow</a>. The irony is that it was also used to undermine the Fugitive Slave Law.</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Affirmative_action" title="Affirmative action">Affirmative action</a>" is also a loaded term, and is frequently used to disparage the achievements of non-whites, e.g. <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> being referred to as an <i><a href="/wiki/Affirmative_Action_President" class="mw-redirect" title="Affirmative Action President">Affirmative Action President</a></i>.</li> <li>Everyone's favorite is "<a href="/wiki/Family_values" title="Family values">family values</a>", which immediately invokes the feelings of warmth, security, honesty, and support that a family brings, even though the term really means a few vicious pet social issues — <a href="/wiki/Homophobia" title="Homophobia">hatred of gays</a>, being anti-<a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Misogyny" title="Misogyny">restricting roles for women</a>. (See also "<a href="/wiki/Traditional_values" class="mw-redirect" title="Traditional values">traditional values</a>".)</li> <li>"Job creator" is yet another one, and it has begun to see common usage after the <a href="/wiki/Great_Recession" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Recession">Great Recession</a>. It tells people that companies give them employment, often out of the goodness of their hearts. The term is often <a href="/wiki/Euphemism" title="Euphemism">euphemistically</a> used by <a href="/wiki/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republican</a> politicians in order to fight corporate taxation (mainly because outright praising <a href="/wiki/Corporation" title="Corporation">corporations</a> isn't good <a href="/wiki/PR" class="mw-redirect" title="PR">PR</a>).</li> <li>"Separatist" and "self-determination" evoke negative and positive responses respectively to an independence movement. One suggests "separation", which is linked with relationship difficulties in many people's minds; the other suggests responsibility and fairness. The <a href="/wiki/Chinese" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese">Chinese</a> government goes one further and uses the term "splittist" for <a href="/wiki/Tibet" title="Tibet">Tibetan</a> nationalists.</li> <li>Insurgent, freedom fighter, and <a href="/wiki/Terrorist" class="mw-redirect" title="Terrorist">terrorist</a> can all be applied to the same group, depending on the speaker's perspective.</li> <li>"Indoctrination" or "<a href="/wiki/Brainwashing" title="Brainwashing">brainwashing</a>" in reference to perceived <a href="/wiki/Liberal_bias" title="Liberal bias">liberal bias</a> in <a href="/wiki/Public_education" title="Public education">public education</a> and higher education institutions. These words have been used by <a href="/wiki/Right-wing" class="mw-redirect" title="Right-wing">right-wing</a> groups like <a href="/wiki/Eagle_Forum" class="mw-redirect" title="Eagle Forum">Eagle Forum</a>, Campus Reform, <a href="/wiki/David_Horowitz" title="David Horowitz">David Horowitz</a> Freedom Center, etc.</li> <li>"Makers and takers": Coined by U.S. Representative and Vice Presidential candidate <a href="/wiki/Paul_Ryan" title="Paul Ryan">Paul Ryan</a> during the 2012 election; "takers" describing people who "get more benefits from the federal government than they pay back in taxes."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> In 2014, Ryan repudiated his choice of words while nonetheless standing by his overall message.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> Conservatives have often described <a href="/wiki/Welfare" class="mw-redirect" title="Welfare">welfare</a> recipients as thieves or such synonyms. For instance, conservative commentator Charles Sykes has written a book titled <i>A Nation of Moochers: America's Addiction to Getting Something for Nothing</i>. Also, common derogatory terms used to describe <a href="/wiki/Poor" class="mw-redirect" title="Poor">poor</a> people, especially recent immigrants, include parasite, leecher, invader, etc.</li> <li>"Urban": Republicans have been really bad at attracting <a href="/wiki/African_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="African Americans">African Americans</a> and speaking on race, so they now have the new strategy of referring to black voters as "urban" voters and then saying the same racist spiel. This gets to hilarious extremes where even Conan O'Brien called <a href="/wiki/Paul_Ryan" title="Paul Ryan">Paul Ryan</a> out for being way too obvious about whom he was talking about.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Health_freedom" title="Health freedom">Health freedom</a>": In the <a href="/wiki/Anti-vaccine" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-vaccine">anti-vaccine</a> arguments, those against vaccines evoke freedom by the right to choose or at least not be forced by <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">government</a> to vaccinate their <a href="/wiki/Children" title="Children">children</a> due to <a href="/wiki/Anti-vaccination_movement#Thimerosal" title="Anti-vaccination movement">unfounded fears of thimerosal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anti-vaccination_movement#Autism" title="Anti-vaccination movement">unfounded links to autism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Anti-vaccination_movement#Known_side_effects" title="Anti-vaccination movement">rare complications from vaccines</a>.</li> <li>"Biological male" *: Often, <a href="/wiki/TERFs" class="mw-redirect" title="TERFs">TERFs</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Transphobes" class="mw-redirect" title="Transphobes">transphobes</a> will use the term when referring to trans women, especially on bathroom issues, saying that "biological men" want to use the same bathroom as little girls.</li></ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Legislation">Legislation</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Loaded_language&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Legislation">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <ul><li>The "estate tax", which is only levied on very large bequests, was spun and renamed as the "<a href="/wiki/Death_tax" title="Death tax">death tax</a>", because the listener would assume it was a tax on anyone who died (well, on their survivors), without realizing it only applies to a very small number of filthy rich people.</li> <li>The phrase "<a href="/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind" title="No Child Left Behind">No Child Left Behind</a>" emphasizes the innocence of children, and the feeling of isolation at being left behind, rather than the same program which could have been called "Helping students <s>pass standardized tests</s> succeed in school", the "charter school support act", or simply the "<a href="/wiki/Public_education" title="Public education">public education</a> reduction act" — reflecting the main effect of the legislation, which is to penalize and ultimately close schools in poor districts (<a href="/wiki/Irony" title="Irony">ironically</a> leaving poor children behind), owing to the infamous practice in the USA of financing schools via local property taxes.</li> <li>The "<a href="/wiki/Defense_of_Marriage_Act" title="Defense of Marriage Act">Defense of Marriage Act</a>" intentionally invokes the image that marriage is being attacked, rather than a more straightforward name like "The Marriage for Heterosexual Couples Only For Federal and Interstate Purposes<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[note 1]</a></sup> Act".</li> <li>The "<a href="/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act" title="USA PATRIOT Act">USA PATRIOT Act</a>" is a (brutally forced) acronym for <i>Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act</i>, but due to the title, it implies that those opposed to the Act are inherently unpatriotic. <ul><li>The above case is so galling that President Bush himself wrote in his memoir <i>Decision Points</i> that he regretted the act's name.</li></ul></li></ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Neologisms">Neologisms</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Loaded_language&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Neologisms">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>Nobody is sure exactly what it is, but whatever it is, it sounds bad and needs to be banned. </p> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Partial-birth_abortion" class="mw-redirect" title="Partial-birth abortion">Partial-birth abortion</a>" — Politicians seem to know more about what this term means than the doctors that perform it.</li> <li>"Assault weapon" — Scary-looking <a href="/wiki/Gun" title="Gun">guns</a>, which may or may not be related to the actual weapons known as assault rifles.</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Snarl_words">Snarl words</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Loaded_language&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Snarl words">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>A <b>snarl word</b> is a derogatory label that can be attached to something (or even to people), in order to dismiss their importance or worth, without guilt. When used as snarl words, these words are essentially meaningless; most of them <i>can</i> be used with meaning, but that seldom happens. </p><p>While not actually using the phrase, liberal comedian/<a href="/wiki/Pundit" title="Pundit">pundit</a>/former U.S. Senator <a href="/wiki/Al_Franken" title="Al Franken">Al Franken</a> went into great detail about the Vast Right-Wing <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy" class="mw-redirect" title="Conspiracy">Conspiracy</a>'s use of snarl words and other forms of <a href="/wiki/Emotional_appeal" class="mw-redirect" title="Emotional appeal">emotional appeal</a> in his first political work, <i>Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot</i>, specifically referencing the political activities of <a href="/wiki/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich">Newt Gingrich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frank_Luntz" title="Frank Luntz">Frank Luntz</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lee_Atwater" title="Lee Atwater">Lee Atwater</a> and noting conservative pressure groups' reliance on such tactics to ram through the 1994 <a href="/wiki/Contract_With_America" title="Contract With America">Contract With America</a> program. </p><p>Words frequently perceived and/or used as snarl words include: </p> <div style="-moz-column-count:3; -webkit-column-count:3; column-count:3; -moz-column-rule: none; -webkit-column-rule: none; column-rule: none;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ableism" title="Ableism">Ableist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">Abortionist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plagiarism" title="Plagiarism">Academic Cheat</a></li> <li>_____ Agenda</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allopathy" class="mw-redirect" title="Allopathy">Allopathy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alt_Right" class="mw-redirect" title="Alt Right">Alt Right</a></li> <li>_____ <a href="/wiki/Apologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Apologist">Apologist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anarchism" title="Anarchism">Anarchist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antisemitism" title="Antisemitism">Antisemite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gun" title="Gun">Assault weapon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astroturf" title="Astroturf">Astroturfer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">Atheist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Authoritarianism" title="Authoritarianism">Authoritarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_Baptist" title="Independent Baptist">Andersonite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernie_Sanders" title="Bernie Sanders">Bernie Bro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bigot" class="mw-redirect" title="Bigot">Bigot</a></li> <li>Boomer</li> <li>Bootlicker</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bourgeois" class="mw-redirect" title="Bourgeois">Bourgeois</a></li> <li>Brocialist</li> <li>Brogressive</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cancel_culture" title="Cancel culture">Cancel culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">Capitalist</a></li> <li>Cattle</li> <li><a href="/wiki/CCP" class="mw-redirect" title="CCP">CCP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship" title="Censorship">Censorship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centrism" title="Centrism">Centrist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/No_Cussing_Club" title="No Cussing Club">Censorship Advocate</a> (snarl term in <a href="/wiki/Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="Florida">Florida</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese">Chinese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Child_abuse" title="Child abuse">Child Abuser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian">Christian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christophobia" title="Christophobia">Christophobia</a></li> <li>Coastal Elite</li> <li>Collectivist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist">Communist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative">Conservative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">Conspiracy theory</a> / Conspiratard</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corporate" class="mw-redirect" title="Corporate">Corporate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuck" title="Cuck">Cuck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Young_Earth_Creationist" class="mw-redirect" title="Young Earth Creationist">Creatard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cult" title="Cult">Cult</a></li> <li>_____ Culture</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Culture_war" title="Culture war">Culture warrior</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cultural_Marxism" title="Cultural Marxism">Cultural Marxist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darwinism" title="Darwinism">Darwinism</a></li> <li>Deadbeat</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deceit" title="Deceit">Deceiver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DEI" title="DEI">DEI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party" title="Democratic Party">Democrat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denialist" class="mw-redirect" title="Denialist">Denialist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DINO" class="mw-redirect" title="DINO">DINO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominionist" class="mw-redirect" title="Dominionist">Dominionist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dystopia" title="Dystopia">Dystopia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elitism" title="Elitism">Elitist</a></li> <li>Emoprog</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Entitlement_program" title="Entitlement program">Entitlement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evangelical" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelical">Evangelical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">Evolutionist/Evotard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fake_news" title="Fake news">Fake news</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fanlore.org">Fantard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Far_left" class="mw-redirect" title="Far left">Far left</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Far_right" title="Far right">Far right</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fascist" class="mw-redirect" title="Fascist">Fascist</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[4]</a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feminism" title="Feminism">Feminist</a>/<a href="/wiki/Feminazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Feminazi">Feminazi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flat_Earth" title="Flat Earth">Flattard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flat_Earth" title="Flat Earth">Flerf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frankenfood" class="mw-redirect" title="Frankenfood">Frankenfood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fundy" class="mw-redirect" title="Fundy">Fundy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_James_Only" title="King James Only">Fuckmanite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gay_agenda" class="mw-redirect" title="Gay agenda">Gay agenda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghetto" title="Ghetto">Ghetto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goy" title="Goy">Goy</a>/<a href="/wiki/Goyim" class="mw-redirect" title="Goyim">Goyim</a></li> <li>Enlightened Centrist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environmentalism" title="Environmentalism">Greenie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Globalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Globalism">Globalist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gun_control" title="Gun control">Gun-grabber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gun_nut" title="Gun nut">Gun nut</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatred">Hate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heterophobia" title="Heterophobia">Heterophobia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gay_agenda" class="mw-redirect" title="Gay agenda">Homofascism</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[5]</a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illegal_immigration" class="mw-redirect" title="Illegal immigration">Illegal alien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">Imperialist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brainwashing" title="Brainwashing">Indoctrination</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Incels" class="mw-redirect" title="Incels">Incel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Infidel" title="Infidel">Infidel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insanity" title="Insanity">Insanity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamism" title="Islamism">Islamist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamofascism" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamofascism">Islamo-Fascist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamophobia" title="Islamophobia">Islamophobia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jihad" title="Jihad">Jihadist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Jew</a></li> <li>Karen</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Left-wing" class="mw-redirect" title="Left-wing">Leftist</a> (and its derivatives)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberal" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal">Liberal</a> (and its derivatives)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libtard" title="Libtard">Libtard</a></li> <li>Madness</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mainstream_media" title="Mainstream media">Mainstream media/MSM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mangina" class="mw-redirect" title="Mangina">Mangina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mansplaining" title="Mansplaining">Mansplaining</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxism" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxism">Marxist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Men%27s_rights_movement" title="Men's rights movement">Men's rights activist/MRA</a></li> <li>Mental illness</li> <li>Millennial<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[note 2]</a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Misandry" title="Misandry">Misandrist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Misogyny" title="Misogyny">Misogynist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feminism#Modern_feminism" title="Feminism">Modern feminism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moonbat" title="Moonbat">Moonbat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moral_relativism" class="mw-redirect" title="Moral relativism">Moral Relativist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">Nazi</a><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[note 3]</a></sup></li> <li>Neckbeard</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neocon" class="mw-redirect" title="Neocon">Neocon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neoliberal" class="mw-redirect" title="Neoliberal">Neoliberal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo-Nazi">Neo-Nazi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Age" title="New Age">New Age</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Atheist" class="mw-redirect" title="New Atheist">New Atheist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nihilism" title="Nihilism">Nihilist</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPC">NPC</a></li> <li>Non-<a href="/wiki/Biblical" class="mw-redirect" title="Biblical">biblical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oligarch" class="mw-redirect" title="Oligarch">Oligarch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pagan" class="mw-redirect" title="Pagan">Pagan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paranoia" title="Paranoia">Paranoia</a>/Paranoiac</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patriarchy" title="Patriarchy">Patriarchy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pedophilia" title="Pedophilia">Pedo(phile)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Comfort" title="Ray Comfort">Plagiarizer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plutocracy" title="Plutocracy">Plutocrat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_correctness" title="Political correctness">Politically Correct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postmodern" class="mw-redirect" title="Postmodern">Postmodern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Privilege" title="Privilege">Privilege</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Professional_victim" title="Professional victim">Professional victim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Progressive" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive">Progressive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proll" title="Proll">Proll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">Propaganda</a>/Propagandist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pseudoscience" title="Pseudoscience">Pseudoscience</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">Racist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radicalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Radicalism">Radical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radicalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Radicalism">Radical left</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radicalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Radicalism">Radical right</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reactionary" title="Reactionary">Reactionary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regressive_left" title="Regressive left">Regressive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party" title="Republican Party">Republican</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reverse_racism" title="Reverse racism">Reverse racist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Right-wing" class="mw-redirect" title="Right-wing">Right-winger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RINO" class="mw-redirect" title="RINO">RINO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruling_class" title="Ruling class">Ruling class</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian">Russian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satanism" title="Satanism">Satanist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scientism" title="Scientism">Scientism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secular_humanist" class="mw-redirect" title="Secular humanist">Secular humanist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexism" title="Sexism">Sexist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheeple" title="Sheeple">Sheeple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shill_gambit" title="Shill gambit">Shill</a></li> <li>Simp</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snarl_word" class="mw-redirect" title="Snarl word">Snarl word</a><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[note 4]</a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snow" title="Snow">Snowflake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_Darwinism" title="Social Darwinism">Social Darwinist/Social Darwinism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_justice_warrior" title="Social justice warrior">Social justice warrior/SJW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialist" class="mw-redirect" title="Socialist">Socialist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soy_boy" title="Soy boy">Soy boy</a></li> <li>Statist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tea_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Tea Party">Teabagger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terrorist" class="mw-redirect" title="Terrorist">Terrorist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theocracy" title="Theocracy">Theocrat</a></li> <li>Thug</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tinfoil_hat" title="Tinfoil hat">Tinfoil hat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">Totalitarian</a></li> <li>Transtrender</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Trumptard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supply_side_economics" class="mw-redirect" title="Supply side economics">Trickle-Down Economics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troll" class="mw-redirect" title="Troll">Troll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uncle_Tom" title="Uncle Tom">Uncle Tom</a></li> <li>Urban</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utopia" title="Utopia">Utopia/Utopian</a></li> <li>War on ________</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warmist" class="mw-redirect" title="Warmist">Warmist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Welfare_queen" title="Welfare queen">Welfare queen</a>/moocher/taker/leaner/dependency on government</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whiteknighting" title="Whiteknighting">White knight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xenophobia" title="Xenophobia">White Nationalist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wingnut" title="Wingnut">Wingnut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woke" title="Woke">Woke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woo" title="Woo">Woo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zionism" title="Zionism">Zionist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zombie" class="mw-redirect" title="Zombie">Zombie</a></li></ul></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Glittering_generalities">Glittering generalities</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Loaded_language&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Glittering generalities">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>A <b>glittering generality</b>, sometimes called a "virtue word", "purr word", or "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideograph_(rhetoric)" class="extiw" title="wp:Ideograph (rhetoric)" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Ideograph (rhetoric)">ideograph</span></a>"<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup>, is the opposite of a snarl word. <a href="/wiki/Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="Florida">Florida</a> loves these terms, and God-forbid that you throw the snarl "Florida Cheerful" at them. It's a vague term meant to invoke warm fuzzy feelings, as in some of the examples given above. (Who could be against the children?) Some common glittering generalities: </p> <div class="div-col columns column-count column-count-3" style="-moz-column-count: 3; -webkit-column-count: 3; column-count: 3;"> <ul><li>American values</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balance_fallacy" title="Balance fallacy">Balanced</a></li> <li>Bipartisan</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Children" title="Children">Children</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Common_sense" title="Common sense">Common sense</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Originalism" title="Originalism">Constitutionalist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confirmation_bias" title="Confirmation bias">Decent human being</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">Democratic</a></li> <li>Enlightened</li> <li>Equality</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moral" class="mw-redirect" title="Moral">Ethical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Family_values" title="Family values">Family values</a></li> <li>Fairness, or "fair share"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_speech" class="mw-redirect" title="Free speech">Free speech</a></li> <li>Freedom or <a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">liberty</a></li> <li>Gender equality</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grassroots" title="Grassroots">Grassroots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green" title="Green">Green</a></li> <li>Hard-working</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights">Human rights</a></li> <li>Innovation, innovative, or innovator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic">Islamic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jewish" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish">Jewish</a></li> <li>Job creators</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judeo-Christian" title="Judeo-Christian">Judeo-Christian</a></li> <li>Liberation</li> <li>Middle class</li> <li>Moderate</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_novelty" title="Appeal to novelty">Modern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moral" class="mw-redirect" title="Moral">Moral</a> or morals</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_nature" title="Appeal to nature">Natural</a></li> <li>Natural marriage</li> <li>Neutral</li> <li>Objective</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Open_mind" title="Open mind">Open-minded</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Organic_food" title="Organic food">Organic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patriotism" title="Patriotism">Patriot</a> or patriotic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Populism" title="Populism">Populist</a></li> <li>Practical</li> <li>Principle</li> <li>Progress</li> <li>Prosperity</li> <li>Purity</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rational" class="mw-redirect" title="Rational">Rational</a></li> <li>Real</li> <li>Reform</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_freedom" title="Religious freedom">Religious freedom</a></li> <li>Rights</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_justice" title="Social justice">Social justice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sound_money" title="Sound money">Sound money</a></li> <li>State-of-the-art</li> <li>Support the 2<sup>nd</sup> Amendment</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sustainability" title="Sustainability">Sustainable</a></li> <li>The people, or the will of the people.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traditional_values" class="mw-redirect" title="Traditional values">Traditional values</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scotsman_fallacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Scotsman fallacy">True</a> or <a href="/wiki/Bullshit" title="Bullshit">truth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolerance" title="Tolerance">Tolerance</a></li> <li>Veterans</li> <li>Virtue</li> <li>Working families</li></ul></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Loaded_language&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion" title="Appeal to emotion">Appeal to emotion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hate_speech" title="Hate speech">Hate speech</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inflammatory_language" title="Inflammatory language">Inflammatory language</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poisoning_the_well" title="Poisoning the well">Poisoning the well</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Push_poll" title="Push poll">Push poll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leading_question" title="Leading question">Leading question</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Worst_Argument_in_the_World" class="mw-redirect" title="The Worst Argument in the World">The Worst Argument in the World</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Loaded_language&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.logicallyfallacious.com/index.php/logical-fallacies/144-prejudicial-language">PREJUDICIAL LANGUAGE</a>, Logically Fallacious</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Notes">Notes</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Loaded_language&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">The act itself did not prohibit individual states from legalizing same-sex marriage, to be fair. That, and making recognition of same-sex marriage from other states optional.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">No relation to <a href="/wiki/Millennialism" title="Millennialism">Millennialism</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">See also: <a href="/wiki/Godwin%27s_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Godwin's Law">Godwin's Law</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Yes, "snarl word" is itself used as a snarl word. Never underestimate a public speaker's capacity for linguistic gymnastics.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Loaded_language&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:80%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2013/feb/13/paul-ryan/has-ryan-remained-consistent-talking-about-what-h-/">Has Ryan remained consistent in talking about what he calls society's "takers" and "makers?"</a> Politifact: 2013.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/08/17/paul-ryan-shuns-conservative-medias-makers-and/200458">Paul Ryan Shuns Conservative Media's "Makers And Takers" Rhetoric, But His Policies Still Rely On Those Myths</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://teamcoco.com/jokes/nov-13-2013-yesterday-paul-ryan-said-president-obama-was-re-elected">"Yesterday, Paul Ryan said President Obama was re-elected because of the high turnout of 'urban voters.' Then when he was asked how he liked his coffee, Ryan said, 'No milk, no sugar, just urban.'"- Conan O'Brien @ TeamCoco.com"</a> This doesn't only apply to African-Americans, but also to Mediterranean Ancestry because they grew up in the urban sprawl. In Illinois, they don't see this as <a href="/wiki/Prejudice" class="mw-redirect" title="Prejudice">prejudice</a>, but how to coin the urban/suburban sprawl. <a href="/wiki/Eric_Hovind" title="Eric Hovind">Eric Hovind</a> was born in Kankakee, Illinois.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Famously deconstructed in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc">this 1944 essay</a> by <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2014/unruhlgbt.html">Bob Unruh's Anti-Gay Agenda</a>. Conwebwatch: 2014.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div role="navigation" aria-labelledby="logical_fallacies-navbox" style="clear:both;"> <table class="toccolours collapsible collapsed autocollapse innercollapse outercollapse navbox nowraplinks" style="width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="4" style="background:#009761; color:white; text-align:center;"><div style="float:left;" class="navbar"><div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Logfal" title="Template:Logfal"><span style="color:white">v</span></a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Logfal" title="Template talk:Logfal"><span style="color:white">t</span></a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Logfal&action=edit"><span style="color:white">e</span></a></div></div><span style="color:white; font-size:120%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Navigation_templates" title="Category:Navigation templates"><span 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tactic">Uncertainty tactic</a> • <a href="/wiki/Greece-baiting" title="Greece-baiting">Greece-baiting</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ham_Hightail" title="Ham Hightail">Ham Hightail</a> • <a href="/wiki/Red-baiting" title="Red-baiting">Red-baiting</a> • <a href="/wiki/Gore%27s_Law" title="Gore's Law">Gore's Law</a> • <a href="/wiki/Nazi_analogies" title="Nazi analogies">Nazi analogies</a> • <a href="/wiki/Mistaking_the_map_for_the_territory" title="Mistaking the map for the territory">Mistaking the map for the territory</a> • <a href="/wiki/Red_herring" title="Red herring">Red herring</a> • <a href="/wiki/Quidquid_latine_dictum_sit,_altum_videtur" title="Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur">Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur</a> • <a href="/wiki/Presentism" title="Presentism">Presentism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Sunk_cost" title="Sunk cost">Sunk cost</a> • <a href="/wiki/Two_wrongs_make_a_right" title="Two wrongs make a right">Two wrongs make a right</a> • <a href="/wiki/Flying_carpet_fallacy" title="Flying carpet fallacy">Flying carpet fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/My_enemy%27s_enemy" title="My enemy's enemy">My enemy's enemy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_ancient_wisdom" title="Appeal to ancient wisdom">Appeal to ancient wisdom</a> • <a href="/wiki/Danth%27s_Law" title="Danth's Law">Danth's Law</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_lunam" title="Argumentum ad lunam">Argumentum ad lunam</a> • <a href="/wiki/Balance_fallacy" title="Balance fallacy">Balance fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Golden_hammer" title="Golden hammer">Golden hammer</a> • <a href="/wiki/Loaded_question" title="Loaded question">Loaded question</a> • <a href="/wiki/Escape_to_the_future" title="Escape to the future">Escape to the future</a> • <a href="/wiki/Word_magic" title="Word magic">Word magic</a> • <a href="/wiki/Spider-Man_fallacy" title="Spider-Man fallacy">Spider-Man fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Sanctioning_the_devil" title="Sanctioning the devil">Sanctioning the devil</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_mystery" title="Appeal to mystery">Appeal to mystery</a> • <a href="/wiki/Informal_fallacy" title="Informal fallacy">Informal fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Common_sense" title="Common sense">Common sense</a> • <a href="/wiki/Post-designation" title="Post-designation">Post-designation</a> • <a href="/wiki/Hyperbole" title="Hyperbole">Hyperbole</a> • <a href="/wiki/Relativist_fallacy" title="Relativist fallacy">Relativist fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Due_diligence" title="Due diligence">Due diligence</a> • <a href="/wiki/Straw_man" title="Straw man">Straw man</a> • <a href="/wiki/Good_old_days" title="Good old days">Good old days</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_probability" title="Appeal to probability">Appeal to probability</a> • <a href="/wiki/Infinite_regress" title="Infinite regress">Infinite regress</a> • <a href="/wiki/Circular_reasoning" title="Circular reasoning">Circular reasoning</a> • <a href="/wiki/Media_was_wrong_before" title="Media was wrong before">Media was wrong before</a> • <a href="/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem" title="Is–ought problem">Is–ought problem</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ad_iram" title="Ad iram">Ad iram</a> • <a href="/wiki/Just_asking_questions" title="Just asking questions">Just asking questions</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pink-baiting" title="Pink-baiting">Pink-baiting</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_faith" title="Appeal to faith">Appeal to faith</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_fear" title="Appeal to fear">Appeal to fear</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_bias" title="Appeal to bias">Appeal to bias</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_confidence" title="Appeal to confidence">Appeal to confidence</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_consequences" title="Appeal to consequences">Appeal to consequences</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion" title="Appeal to emotion">Appeal to emotion</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_flattery" title="Appeal to flattery">Appeal to flattery</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_gravity" title="Appeal to gravity">Appeal to gravity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_hate" title="Appeal to hate">Appeal to hate</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_omniscience" title="Argument from omniscience">Argument from omniscience</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_silence" title="Argument from silence">Argument from silence</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_baculum" title="Argumentum ad baculum">Argumentum ad baculum</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_fastidium" title="Argumentum ad fastidium">Argumentum ad fastidium</a> • <a href="/wiki/Association_fallacy" title="Association fallacy">Association fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Broken_window_fallacy" title="Broken window fallacy">Broken window fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Category_mistake" title="Category mistake">Category mistake</a> • <a href="/wiki/Confounding_factor" title="Confounding factor">Confounding factor</a> • <a href="/wiki/Counterfactual_fallacy" title="Counterfactual fallacy">Counterfactual fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Courtier%27s_Reply" title="Courtier's Reply">Courtier's Reply</a> • <a href="/wiki/Damning_with_faint_praise" title="Damning with faint praise">Damning with faint praise</a> • <a href="/wiki/Definitional_fallacies" title="Definitional fallacies">Definitional fallacies</a> • <a href="/wiki/Equivocation" title="Equivocation">Equivocation</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_accent" title="Fallacy of accent">Fallacy of accent</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_accident" title="Fallacy of accident">Fallacy of accident</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_amphiboly" title="Fallacy of amphiboly">Fallacy of amphiboly</a> • <a href="/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy" title="Gambler's fallacy">Gambler's fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Imprecision_fallacy" title="Imprecision fallacy">Imprecision fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts" title="Moving the goalposts">Moving the goalposts</a> • <a href="/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy" title="Nirvana fallacy">Nirvana fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Overprecision" title="Overprecision">Overprecision</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pathos_gambit" title="Pathos gambit">Pathos gambit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pragmatic_fallacy" title="Pragmatic fallacy">Pragmatic fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Quote_mining" title="Quote mining">Quote mining</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_sarcina_inserta" title="Argumentum ad sarcina inserta">Argumentum ad sarcina inserta</a> • <a href="/wiki/Science_doesn%27t_know_everything" title="Science doesn't know everything">Science doesn't know everything</a> • <a href="/wiki/Slothful_induction" title="Slothful induction">Slothful induction</a> • <a href="/wiki/Spotlight_fallacy" title="Spotlight fallacy">Spotlight fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Style_over_substance" title="Style over substance">Style over substance</a> • <a href="/wiki/Toupee_fallacy" title="Toupee fallacy">Toupee fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Genuine_but_insignificant_cause" title="Genuine but insignificant cause">Genuine but insignificant cause</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity" title="Argument from incredulity">Argument from incredulity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_age" title="Appeal to age">Appeal to age</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_nauseam" title="Argumentum ad nauseam">Argumentum ad nauseam</a> • <a href="/wiki/Phantom_distinction" title="Phantom distinction">Phantom distinction</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_common_sense" title="Appeal to common sense">Appeal to common sense</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_hysteria" title="Argumentum ad hysteria">Argumentum ad hysteria</a> • <a href="/wiki/Omnipotence_paradox" title="Omnipotence paradox">Omnipotence paradox</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_etymology" title="Argument from etymology">Argument from etymology</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_trauma" title="Appeal to trauma">Appeal to trauma</a> • <a href="/wiki/Countless_counterfeits_fallacy" title="Countless counterfeits fallacy">Countless counterfeits fallacy</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#009761; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Ad_hoc" title="Category:Ad hoc"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Ad hoc:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/No_True_Scotsman" title="No True Scotsman">No True Scotsman</a> • <a href="/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts" title="Moving the goalposts">Moving the goalposts</a> • <a href="/wiki/Escape_hatch" title="Escape hatch">Escape hatch</a> • <a href="/wiki/Handwave" title="Handwave">Handwave</a> • <a href="/wiki/Special_pleading" title="Special pleading">Special pleading</a> • <a href="/wiki/Slothful_induction" title="Slothful induction">Slothful induction</a> • <a href="/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy" title="Nirvana fallacy">Nirvana fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/God_of_the_gaps" title="God of the gaps">God of the gaps</a> • <a href="/wiki/PIDOOMA" title="PIDOOMA">PIDOOMA</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ad_hoc" title="Ad hoc">Ad hoc</a> • <a href="/wiki/Tone_argument" title="Tone argument">Tone argument</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#009761; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Arguments_from_ignorance" title="Category:Arguments from ignorance"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Arguments from ignorance:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Science_doesn%27t_know_everything" title="Science doesn't know everything">Science doesn't know everything</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity" title="Argument from incredulity">Argument from incredulity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_silence" title="Argument from silence">Argument from silence</a> • <a href="/wiki/Toupee_fallacy" title="Toupee fallacy">Toupee fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_censorship" title="Appeal to censorship">Appeal to censorship</a> • <a href="/wiki/Science_was_wrong_before" title="Science was wrong before">Science was wrong before</a> • <a href="/wiki/Holmesian_fallacy" title="Holmesian fallacy">Holmesian fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_omniscience" title="Argument from omniscience">Argument from omniscience</a> • <a href="/wiki/Willful_ignorance" title="Willful ignorance">Willful ignorance</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance" title="Argument from ignorance">Argument from ignorance</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#009761; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Causation_fallacies" title="Category:Causation fallacies"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Causation fallacies:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Post_hoc,_ergo_propter_hoc" title="Post hoc, ergo propter hoc">Post hoc, ergo propter hoc</a> • <a href="/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation" title="Correlation does not imply causation">Correlation does not imply causation</a> • <a href="/wiki/Wrong_direction" title="Wrong direction">Wrong direction</a> • <a href="/wiki/Counterfactual_fallacy" title="Counterfactual fallacy">Counterfactual fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Regression_fallacy" title="Regression fallacy">Regression fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy" title="Gambler's fallacy">Gambler's fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent" title="Denying the antecedent">Denying the antecedent</a> • <a href="/wiki/Genuine_but_insignificant_cause" title="Genuine but insignificant cause">Genuine but insignificant cause</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#009761; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Circular_reasoning" title="Category:Circular reasoning"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Circular reasoning:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Infinite_regress" title="Infinite regress">Infinite regress</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_by_assertion" title="Argument by assertion">Argument by assertion</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_dictionarium" title="Argumentum ad dictionarium">Argumentum ad dictionarium</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_faith" title="Appeal to faith">Appeal to faith</a> • <a href="/wiki/Circular_reasoning" title="Circular reasoning">Circular reasoning</a> • <a href="/wiki/Self-refuting_idea" title="Self-refuting idea">Self-refuting idea</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#009761; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Emotional_appeals" title="Category:Emotional appeals"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Emotional appeals:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_fear" title="Appeal to fear">Appeal to fear</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion" title="Appeal to emotion">Appeal to emotion</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_confidence" title="Appeal to confidence">Appeal to confidence</a> • <a href="/wiki/Deepity" title="Deepity">Deepity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_baculum" title="Argumentum ad baculum">Argumentum ad baculum</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_shame" title="Appeal to shame">Appeal to shame</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_flattery" title="Appeal to flattery">Appeal to flattery</a> • <a href="/wiki/Tone_argument" title="Tone argument">Tone argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_money" title="Appeal to money">Appeal to money</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_fastidium" title="Argumentum ad fastidium">Argumentum ad fastidium</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_gravity" title="Appeal to gravity">Appeal to gravity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_consequences" title="Appeal to consequences">Appeal to consequences</a> • <a href="/wiki/Style_over_substance" title="Style over substance">Style over substance</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_pity" title="Appeal to pity">Appeal to pity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_hate" title="Appeal to hate">Appeal to hate</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pathos_gambit" title="Pathos gambit">Pathos gambit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Shaming" title="Shaming">Shaming</a> • <a href="/wiki/Degenerate" title="Degenerate">Degenerate</a> • <a href="/wiki/Abomination" title="Abomination">Abomination</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#009761; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Fallacies_of_ambiguity" title="Category:Fallacies of ambiguity"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Fallacies of ambiguity:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_accent" title="Fallacy of accent">Fallacy of accent</a> • <a href="/wiki/Equivocation" title="Equivocation">Equivocation</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_amphiboly" title="Fallacy of amphiboly">Fallacy of amphiboly</a> • <a href="/wiki/Quote_mining" title="Quote mining">Quote mining</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_ambiguity" title="Fallacy of ambiguity">Fallacy of ambiguity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Moral_equivalence" title="Moral equivalence">Moral equivalence</a> • <a href="/wiki/Scope_fallacy" title="Scope fallacy">Scope fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Suppressed_correlative" title="Suppressed correlative">Suppressed correlative</a> • <a href="/wiki/Not_as_bad_as" title="Not as bad as">Not as bad as</a> • <a href="/wiki/Etymology" title="Etymology">Etymology</a> • <a href="/wiki/Continuum_fallacy" title="Continuum fallacy">Continuum fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Wronger_than_wrong" title="Wronger than wrong">Wronger than wrong</a> • <a href="/wiki/Definitional_fallacies" title="Definitional fallacies">Definitional fallacies</a> • <a href="/wiki/Code_word" title="Code word">Code word</a> • <a href="/wiki/Phantom_distinction" title="Phantom distinction">Phantom distinction</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="background:#009761; width:25%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Formal_fallacies" title="Category:Formal fallacies"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Formal fallacies:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Confusion_of_the_inverse" title="Confusion of the inverse">Confusion of the inverse</a> • <a href="/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent" title="Denying the antecedent">Denying the antecedent</a> • <a href="/wiki/Non_sequitur" title="Non sequitur">Non sequitur</a> • <a href="/wiki/Affirmative_conclusion_from_a_negative_premise" title="Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise">Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise</a> • <a href="/wiki/Not_even_wrong" title="Not even wrong">Not even wrong</a> • <a href="/wiki/Chewbacca_Defense" title="Chewbacca Defense">Chewbacca Defense</a> • <a href="/wiki/Affirming_a_disjunct" title="Affirming a disjunct">Affirming a disjunct</a> • <a href="/wiki/Illicit_process" title="Illicit process">Illicit process</a> • <a href="/wiki/Four-term_fallacy" title="Four-term fallacy">Four-term fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Negative_conclusion_from_affirmative_premises" title="Negative conclusion from affirmative premises">Negative conclusion from affirmative premises</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_fallacy" title="Fallacy fallacy">Fallacy fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Substituting_explanation_for_premise" title="Substituting explanation for premise">Substituting explanation for premise</a> • <a href="/wiki/Enthymeme" title="Enthymeme">Enthymeme</a> • <a href="/wiki/Syllogism" title="Syllogism">Syllogism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Formal_fallacy" title="Formal fallacy">Formal fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Existential_assumption" title="Existential assumption">Existential assumption</a> • <a href="/wiki/Masked_man_fallacy" title="Masked man fallacy">Masked man fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Self-refuting_idea" title="Self-refuting idea">Self-refuting idea</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_by_gibberish" title="Argument by gibberish">Argument by gibberish</a> • <a href="/wiki/One_single_proof" title="One single proof">One single proof</a> • <a href="/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent" title="Affirming the consequent">Affirming the consequent</a> • <a href="/wiki/False_dilemma" title="False dilemma">False dilemma</a> • <a href="/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy" title="Conjunction fallacy">Conjunction fallacy</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="background:#009761; width:25%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Fallacious_arguments" title="Category:Fallacious arguments"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Fallacious arguments:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Bumblebee_argument" title="Bumblebee argument">Bumblebee argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fatwa_envy" title="Fatwa envy">Fatwa envy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Gotcha_argument" title="Gotcha argument">Gotcha argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Hoyle%27s_fallacy" title="Hoyle's fallacy">Hoyle's fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Intuition_pump" title="Intuition pump">Intuition pump</a> • <a href="/wiki/Logic_and_Creation" title="Logic and Creation">Logic and Creation</a> • <a href="/wiki/Not_Circular_Reasoning" title="Not Circular Reasoning">Not Circular Reasoning</a> • <a href="/wiki/Peanut_butter_argument" title="Peanut butter argument">Peanut butter argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Great_Beethoven_fallacy" title="Great Beethoven fallacy">Great Beethoven fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_unique_founding_conditions" title="Fallacy of unique founding conditions">Fallacy of unique founding conditions</a> • <a href="/wiki/Evil_is_the_absence_of_God" title="Evil is the absence of God">Evil is the absence of God</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_first_cause" title="Argument from first cause">Argument from first cause</a> • <a href="/wiki/How_do_you_know%3F_Were_you_there%3F" title="How do you know? Were you there?">How do you know? Were you there?</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_design" title="Argument from design">Argument from design</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_beauty" title="Argument from beauty">Argument from beauty</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_nature" title="Appeal to nature">Appeal to nature</a> • <a href="/wiki/Solferino_fallacy" title="Solferino fallacy">Solferino fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Religious_scientists" title="Religious scientists">Religious scientists</a> • <a href="/wiki/Nothing_to_hide" title="Nothing to hide">Nothing to hide</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_fine_tuning" title="Argument from fine tuning">Argument from fine tuning</a> • <a href="/wiki/Creep_shaming" title="Creep shaming">Creep shaming</a> • <a href="/wiki/%22I_used_to_be_an_atheist%22" title=""I used to be an atheist"">"I used to be an atheist"</a> • <a href="/wiki/Atheism_as_a_religion" title="Atheism as a religion">Atheism as a religion</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum" title="Argumentum ad populum">Argumentum ad populum</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_morality" title="Argument from morality">Argument from morality</a> • <a href="/wiki/Anti-environmentalism" title="Anti-environmentalism">Anti-environmentalism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_bias" title="Appeal to bias">Appeal to bias</a> • <a href="/wiki/Apophasis" title="Apophasis">Apophasis</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_nauseam" title="Argumentum ad nauseam">Argumentum ad nauseam</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_censorship" title="Appeal to censorship">Appeal to censorship</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_sarcina_inserta" title="Argumentum ad sarcina inserta">Argumentum ad sarcina inserta</a> • <a href="/wiki/Blaming_the_victim" title="Blaming the victim">Blaming the victim</a> • <a href="/wiki/Bait-and-switch" title="Bait-and-switch">Bait-and-switch</a> • <a href="/wiki/Danth%27s_Law" title="Danth's Law">Danth's Law</a> • <a href="/wiki/Chewbacca_Defense" title="Chewbacca Defense">Chewbacca Defense</a> • <a href="/wiki/Canard" title="Canard">Canard</a> • <a href="/wiki/DARVO" title="DARVO">DARVO</a> • <a href="/wiki/Demonization" title="Demonization">Demonization</a> • <a href="/wiki/Escape_hatch" title="Escape hatch">Escape hatch</a> • <a href="/wiki/Friend_argument" title="Friend argument">Friend argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Everyone_is_racist" title="Everyone is racist">Everyone is racist</a> • <a href="/wiki/Gish_Gallop" title="Gish Gallop">Gish Gallop</a> • <a href="/wiki/Greece-baiting" title="Greece-baiting">Greece-baiting</a> • <a href="/wiki/Gore%27s_Law" title="Gore's Law">Gore's Law</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ham_Hightail" title="Ham Hightail">Ham Hightail</a> • <a href="/wiki/Just_asking_questions" title="Just asking questions">Just asking questions</a> • <a href="/wiki/Leading_question" title="Leading question">Leading question</a> • <a href="/wiki/Linking_to_authority" title="Linking to authority">Linking to authority</a> • <a href="/wiki/Loaded_question" title="Loaded question">Loaded question</a> • <a href="/wiki/Lying_by_omission" title="Lying by omission">Lying by omission</a> • <a href="/wiki/Motte_and_bailey" title="Motte and bailey">Motte and bailey</a> • <a href="/wiki/Nazi_analogies" title="Nazi analogies">Nazi analogies</a> • <a href="/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts" title="Moving the goalposts">Moving the goalposts</a> • <a href="/wiki/One_single_proof" title="One single proof">One single proof</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pink-baiting" title="Pink-baiting">Pink-baiting</a> • <a href="/wiki/One-way_hash_argument" title="One-way hash argument">One-way hash argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pathos_gambit" title="Pathos gambit">Pathos gambit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Quote_mining" title="Quote mining">Quote mining</a> • <a href="/wiki/Poisoning_the_well" title="Poisoning the well">Poisoning the well</a> • <a href="/wiki/Quidquid_latine_dictum_sit,_altum_videtur" title="Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur">Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur</a> • <a href="/wiki/Race_card" title="Race card">Race card</a> • <a href="/wiki/Red-baiting" title="Red-baiting">Red-baiting</a> • <a href="/wiki/Red_herring" title="Red herring">Red herring</a> • <a href="/wiki/Release_the_data" title="Release the data">Release the data</a> • <a href="/wiki/Science_was_wrong_before" title="Science was wrong before">Science was wrong before</a> • <a href="/wiki/Shill_gambit" title="Shill gambit">Shill gambit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Straw_man" title="Straw man">Straw man</a> • <a href="/wiki/Silent_Majority" title="Silent Majority">Silent Majority</a> • <a href="/wiki/Uncertainty_tactic" title="Uncertainty tactic">Uncertainty tactic</a> • <a href="/wiki/Style_over_substance" title="Style over substance">Style over substance</a> • <a href="/wiki/Terrorism-baiting" title="Terrorism-baiting">Terrorism-baiting</a> • <a href="/wiki/Weasel_word" title="Weasel word">Weasel word</a> • <a href="/wiki/What%27s_the_harm_(logical_fallacy)" title="What's the harm (logical fallacy)">What's the harm (logical fallacy)</a> • <a href="/wiki/Whataboutism" title="Whataboutism">Whataboutism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Bullshit" title="Bullshit">Bullshit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Logical_fallacy" title="Logical fallacy">Logical fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Banana_argument" title="Banana argument">Banana argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Scapegoat" title="Scapegoat">Scapegoat</a> • <a href="/wiki/How_come_there_are_still_monkeys%3F" title="How come there are still monkeys?">How come there are still monkeys?</a> • <a href="/wiki/Anti-racist_is_a_code_word_for_anti-white" title="Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white">Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ontological_argument" title="Ontological argument">Ontological argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Omnipotence_paradox" title="Omnipotence paradox">Omnipotence paradox</a> • <a href="/wiki/Presuppositionalism" title="Presuppositionalism">Presuppositionalism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Just_a_joke" title="Just a joke">Just a joke</a> • <a href="/wiki/Countless_counterfeits_fallacy" title="Countless counterfeits fallacy">Countless counterfeits fallacy</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="background:#009761; width:25%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Conditional_fallacies" title="Category:Conditional fallacies"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Conditional fallacies:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Slippery_slope" title="Slippery slope">Slippery slope</a> • <a href="/wiki/What%27s_the_harm_(logical_fallacy)" title="What's the harm (logical fallacy)">What's the harm (logical fallacy)</a> • <a href="/wiki/Special_pleading" title="Special pleading">Special pleading</a> • <a href="/wiki/Conditional_fallacy" title="Conditional fallacy">Conditional fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/On_the_spot_fallacy" title="On the spot fallacy">On the spot fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_the_minority" title="Appeal to the minority">Appeal to the minority</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum" title="Argumentum ad populum">Argumentum ad populum</a> • <a href="/wiki/Galileo_gambit" title="Galileo gambit">Galileo gambit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Professor_of_nothing" title="Professor of nothing">Professor of nothing</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#009761; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Genetic_fallacies" title="Category:Genetic fallacies"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Genetic fallacies:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Genetic_fallacy" title="Genetic fallacy">Genetic fallacy</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="1" style="background:#009761; width:15%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Appeals_to_authority" title="Category:Appeals to authority"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Appeals to authority:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Ipse_dixit" title="Ipse dixit">Ipse dixit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_confidence" title="Appeal to confidence">Appeal to confidence</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum" title="Argumentum ad populum">Argumentum ad populum</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argument_from_authority" title="Argument from authority">Argument from authority</a> • <a href="/wiki/Linking_to_authority" title="Linking to authority">Linking to authority</a> • <a href="/wiki/Silent_Majority" title="Silent Majority">Silent Majority</a> • <a href="/wiki/Invincible_authority" title="Invincible authority">Invincible authority</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_celebrity" title="Appeal to celebrity">Appeal to celebrity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ultracrepidarianism" title="Ultracrepidarianism">Ultracrepidarianism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_the_minority" title="Appeal to the minority">Appeal to the minority</a> • <a href="/wiki/Galileo_gambit" title="Galileo gambit">Galileo gambit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_identity" title="Appeal to identity">Appeal to identity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Weasel_word" title="Weasel word">Weasel word</a> • <a href="/wiki/Professor_of_nothing" title="Professor of nothing">Professor of nothing</a> • <a href="/wiki/Euthyphro_dilemma" title="Euthyphro dilemma">Euthyphro dilemma</a> • <a href="/wiki/Divine_command_theory" title="Divine command theory">Divine command theory</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="1" style="background:#009761; width:15%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Ad_hominem" title="Category:Ad hominem"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Ad hominem:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Ad_iram" title="Ad iram">Ad iram</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_cellarium" title="Argumentum ad cellarium">Argumentum ad cellarium</a> • <a href="/wiki/Bulverism" title="Bulverism">Bulverism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Poisoning_the_well" title="Poisoning the well">Poisoning the well</a> • <a href="/wiki/Blaming_the_victim" title="Blaming the victim">Blaming the victim</a> • <a href="/wiki/Tu_quoque" title="Tu quoque">Tu quoque</a> • <a href="/wiki/Whataboutism" title="Whataboutism">Whataboutism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Nutpicking" title="Nutpicking">Nutpicking</a> • <a href="/wiki/Jonanism" title="Jonanism">Jonanism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Demonization" title="Demonization">Demonization</a> • <a href="/wiki/Shill_gambit" title="Shill gambit">Shill gambit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_bias" title="Appeal to bias">Appeal to bias</a> • <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_opposition" title="Fallacy of opposition">Fallacy of opposition</a> • <a href="/wiki/Association_fallacy" title="Association fallacy">Association fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Damning_with_faint_praise" title="Damning with faint praise">Damning with faint praise</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pathos_gambit" title="Pathos gambit">Pathos gambit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_identity" title="Appeal to identity">Appeal to identity</a> • <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_hominem" title="Argumentum ad hominem">Argumentum ad hominem</a> • <a href="/wiki/Nazi_analogies" title="Nazi analogies">Nazi analogies</a> • <a href="/wiki/Not_an_argument" title="Not an argument">Not an argument</a> • <a href="/wiki/Nothing_to_hide" title="Nothing to hide">Nothing to hide</a> • <a href="/wiki/Scapegoat" title="Scapegoat">Scapegoat</a> • <a href="/wiki/%E5%9C%B0%E4%B8%8B%E5%AE%A4%E8%AE%BA%E8%AF%81" title="地下室论证">地下室论证</a> • </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:5%;">  </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#009761; width:20%; text-align:right;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Imprecision_fallacies" title="Category:Imprecision fallacies"><span style="color:white; font-size:125%">Imprecision fallacies:</span></a></b> </td> <td style="background:#FFFFFF;"> <a href="/wiki/Apex_fallacy" title="Apex fallacy">Apex fallacy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Overprecision" 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