Genetic fallacy
What is the claim made about the origin of the idea being attacked, and why is it irrelevant to its truth?
Ad hominem
Who is being attacked and how, and what irrelevant conclusion is the attack being used to justify?
Equivocation
What term is being equivocated upon, what are its ambiguous meanings, and where or how does a shift from one meaning to another occur in the argument, making it appear sound when it is not?
False alternatives
What are assumed to be the only alternatives, and why is this assumption dubious?
Straw man
What easily refuted view is being attacked instead of a more reasonable position that would be more difficult to refute? Who allegedly holds a position or view that no sensible person would have?
Hasty generalization
What is the generalization made in the conclusion, and what is the insufficient sample used as its basis?
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc
Where in the discourse is it explicitly concluded that something is caused by something else’ What is the insufficient basis?
Fallacy of composition
What are the “parts” in question, and what property of it is being invalidly concluded to be a property of a whole thing that they make up?
Argument from ignorance
Exactly where does the argument base a conclusion on the assertion that we do not know that its opposite is true?
Begging the question
What conclusion of the argument is the same as one of the stated or unstated basic reasons?
Fallacy of division
What is the “whole thing” in question, and what property of it is being invalidly concluded to be a property of its parts?
[Note: Found this in an old Mindmap and do not know where it is from.]
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