Logical Fallacy of the Day!

Argumentum ad hominem – the evasion of the actual topic by directing an attack at your opponent - An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"^[1]), short for argumentum ad hominem, means responding to arguments by attacking a person's character, rather than to the content of their arguments. When used inappropriately, it is a fallacy in which a claim or argument is dismissed on the basis of some irrelevant fact or supposition about the author or the person being criticized.^[2] Ad hominem reasoning is not always fallacious, for example, when it relates to the credibility of statements of fact or when used in certain kinds of moral and practical reasoning.^[3]
 
Fallacious ad hominem reasoning is normally categorized as an informal fallacy,^[4][5][6] more precisely as a genetic fallacy, a subcategory of fallacies of irrelevance.  Ad hominem arguments are the converse of appeals to authority, and may be used in response to such appeals, for example, by pointing to the feet of clay of the authority being pointed to......[types of ad hominem attacks] .... Abusive – Circumstantial - Guilt by association - Ad feminam......To Read More......
 

Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies

· Formal Fallacies -A formal fallacy is an error in logic that can be seen in the argument's form.^[1]All formal fallacies are specific types of non sequiturs.

· Informal Fallacies are Informal fallacies – arguments that are fallacious for reasons other than structural (formal) flaws and usually require examination of the argument's content.^[12]

My List

Anecdotal fallacy

Appeal to probability

Appeal to Stone (Argumentum ad lapidem)

Argument from ignorance

Argument to moderation

Argument from repetition

Argument from silence

Base rate fallacy

Conjunction fallacy

Unwarranted assumption fallacy