informal-fallacies
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Catalog of informal fallacies with definitions, canonical examples, and detection heuristics. Covers relevance fallacies (ad hominem, straw man, red herring, appeal to authority, appeal to emotion), presumption fallacies (false dichotomy, complex question, begging the question), ambiguity fallacies (equivocation, amphiboly, accent), causal fallacies (post hoc, slippery slope, correlation-causation), and statistical fallacies (hasty generalization, cherry-picking). Use when evaluating arguments for rhetorical or informal reasoning errors.
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