Logical Fallacies
For Sikhs
A List Of Logical Fallacies and Sikh relevant examples
Ad Hominem
You attacked your opponent's character or personal traits in an attempt to undermine their argument.
Ambiguity
You used a double meaning or ambiguity of language to mislead or misrepresent the truth.
Appeal to Authority
You said that because an authority thinks something, it must therefore be true.
Bandwagon
You appealed to popularity or the fact that many people do something as an attempted form of validation.
Composition / Divison
You assumed that one part of something has to be applied to all, or other, parts of it; or that the whole must apply to its parts.
False Cause
You presumed that a real or perceived relationship between things means that one is the cause of the other. “Correlation does not equal causation”
Loaded Question
You asked a question that had a presumption built into it so that it couldn't be answered without appearing guilty.
Middle Ground
You claimed that a compromise, or middle point, between two extremes must be the truth.
Personal Incredulity
Because you found something difficult to understand, or are unaware of how it works, you made out like it's probably not true.
Slippery Slope
You said that if we allow A to happen, then Z will eventually happen too, therefore A should not happen.
Special Pleading
You moved the goalposts or made up an exception when your claim was shown to be false.
Strawman
You misrepresented someone's argument to make it easier to attack.
Tu Quoque
You avoided having to engage with criticism by turning it back on the accuser - you answered criticism with criticism (appeal to hypocrisy).
Unfalsifiability
You made a claim that cannot be proven false, because it relies on an explanation that is impossible to test or disprove (appeal to unfalsifiability).
