Argument
“My colleague is arguing we should cut mandatory overtime. She clearly doesn't care whether we hit our targets — and that kind of attitude is exactly why people who think like her tend to end up in middling careers.”
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Attacking the person making the argument rather than the argument itself.
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Deflecting criticism by pointing out that the accuser does the same thing.
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Treating an expert's opinion as conclusive proof outside their domain of expertise.
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Misrepresenting an opponent's argument into a weaker version, then refuting that instead.
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Arguing something is right or good simply because it has always been done that way.
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Claiming something is true or good because many people believe or do it.
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Judging a claim based on its origin or source rather than its own merits.
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Arguing that something is good or right because it is natural, or bad because it is unnatural.
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Presenting only two options as if they are the only possibilities when others exist.
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Claiming one event will inevitably trigger a chain of extreme consequences without justification.
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Drawing a broad conclusion from an unrepresentative or insufficient sample.
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Using the conclusion as a hidden premise to support itself.
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Dismissing counterexamples by arbitrarily redefining the category to exclude them.
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Assuming that because B followed A, A must have caused B.
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Exploiting a word's multiple meanings to shift between senses mid-argument.
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Inferring the antecedent from the consequent: "If P then Q; Q; therefore P."
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Inferring the negation of the consequent from the negation of the antecedent: "If P then Q; not P; therefore not Q."
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The argument is logically sound: its premises genuinely support its conclusion without exploiting bias, misrepresentation, or structural error.
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