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RESERVED for fallacies and other tools

These are in Latin... and i'm to busy/lazy to post them in English
Ad Hominem
Ad Antiquitam
Ad Crumenam
Ad Baculum
Ad Nauseum
Ad Populum
Petitio Principii
Circulus in Probando
c** Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Secundum Quid
Non Causa Pro Causa
Ad Verecundium (also spelled verecundiam)
Ad Misericordiam
Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
Tu Quoque
Non Sequitur
Amphiboly
Ad Speculum
Dicto Simpliciter
Bifurcation


The term "Occam's Razor" comes from a misspelling of the name William of Ockham. Ockham was a brilliant theologian, philosopher, and logician in the medieval period. One of his rules of thumb has become a standard guideline for thinking through issues logically. Occam's Razor is the principle that, if there are two competing theories to explain a single phenomenon, and they both generally reach the same conclusion, and they are both equally persuasive and convincing, and they both explain the problem or situation satisfactorily, the logician should always pick the less complex one. The one with the fewer number of moving parts, so to speak, is most likely to be correct. The idea is always to cut out extra unnecessary bits, hence the name "razor." (Wheeler, 2004)

Fallacies of logic are just errors in your reasoning. There’s a basic list in wikipedia and several books out concerning logic and argument (not the screaming, hate-you sort, but the sort that is ‘debate’). Ad hominem, when you attack a person rather than their ideas and think that you have a logical basis for doing that to win an argument, is one of the many logical fallacies that you can make during an argument.

Some of the more common ones:

Red Herring
Strawman
Slippery slope
Godwin's Law
Ad Homien (You already have)
Appeal to authority
Appeal to popularity
Gambler's fallacy

Murphy's law?