THE HANDY DANDY ARGUMENT GUIDE

  These are the tools with which we all think. They are easy to use (once you know them) and are followed by a list of common fallacies, which are easy to avoid (again once you know them).

Tools

  • Acceptance of Independent Confirmation
  • Independent Confirmation
  • Falsifiability
  • Occam's Razor
  • Peer review
  • Science

    Fallacies

  • Ad Hominem
  • Anecdotal Evidence
  • Appeal to Democracy
  • Appeal to Ignorance
  • Argument by Design or Misinterpretation of Complexity
  • Argument from Authority
  • False dichotomy
  • Inconsistent application of reason or Selective observation
  • Non Sequitur
  • Semantic Obfuscation or Poisoning the Well
  • Slippery Slope
  • Special Pleading
  • Strawman
  • Suppressed Evidence