Fallacy of the Day: Reader's Choice

[sarahmichigan]

If you've been enjoying this series so far, please give me your thoughts one or more of the following questions:

1. Which fallacy (already discussed or another I haven't touched on yet) is one you think you're most prone to commit?

2. Which fallacy is a pet peeve and/or one you run into often in discussions?

3. Which fallacy do you think is insidious and/or hard to counter when you run into it?

I think I probably am most prone to
Versions of "ad hominem" or "poisoning the well" (though I really try NOT to let myself do that) and "appeal to emotion." One of the reasons I started studying logic was that I would (and still do, to some extent) get over-excited and emotional when arguing a point, and I'm still a little quick to jump to injecting drama and emotion into an argument.

Comments

[dare2grok.livejournal.com]

I sometimes adopt a "slippery slope" argument inappropriately. I see most often the "straw man" error committed by others (attacking a caricature or exaggeration of an opponent's idea). I find the hardest one to deal with is argumentum ad ignorantiam (assuming something is true simply because it hasn't been proven false).