Attacking the Person (Ad Hominem), Attacking the character, personality, background, or qualities of a person instead of addressing their argument, Appeal to Force (Ad Baculum), Using threats, intimidation, or force to persuade someone to accept a conclusion, Appeal to Pity (Ad Misericordiam), Trying to persuade others by making them feel sorry for someone rather than presenting relevant evidence, False Dilemma, Presenting only two choices when there are more alternatives, Appeal to Ignorance (Ad Ignorantiam), Claiming that something is true because it has not been proven false, or false because it has not been proven true, Slippery Slope, Claiming that one action will inevitably lead to a series of increasingly serious consequences without sufficient evidence, Complex Questions, Asking a question that contains an unfair or unproven assumption, often forcing the person to accept the assumption to answer, Appeal to Consequences, Claiming that a belief must be true or false simply because its consequences would be desirable or undesirable, Bandwagon (Appeal to Popularity), Claiming that something is true, correct, or good because many people believe or do it, Appeal to Authority, Treating the opinion of an authority or expert as proof of a claim, especially when the person is not an appropriate authority on the topic, Anonymous Authority, Using an unnamed or unidentified authority as evidence for a claim, Hasty Generalization, Drawing a general conclusion from too few or insufficient examples, Slothful Induction, Refusing to accept a reasonable conclusion despite strong evidence supporting it, False Analogy, Comparing two things that are similar in some ways and assuming they must be similar in another important way when the comparison is not strong enough, Accident Fallacy, Applying a general rule to a specific situation where the rule does not appropriately apply

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