Informal Fallacies

Here is a quoted selection from Garth Kemerling. The links are to his page.

Informal Fallacies

An attempt to persuade that obviously fails to demonstrate the truth of its conclusion, deriving its only plausibility from a misuse of ordinary language.

The informal fallacies include:

Fallacies of relevance:
- appeal to ignorance,
- appeal to authority,
- ad hominem argument, and
- appeal to emotion,
- appeal to force,
- irrelevant conclusion, and
- appeal to pity,
Fallacies of presumption:
- accident,
- converse accident,
- false cause,
- begging the question, and
- complex question,
Fallacies of ambiguity:
- equivocation,
- amphiboly,
- accent,
- composition, and
- division.