Rhetoric

This section lists various types of rhetorical devices that can be described as unfair or misleading. The focus here is therefore on the negative examples – in order to help visitors of this site to learn to recognise and counter such methods.

This site section is still under development and therefore incomplete.

• Appeal to emotion
• (Argumentum) ad baculum
• Gish-galopp

• Appeal to consequences

• Fallacies of ambiguity
  • Motte-and-Bailey (fallacy)
  • Generic generalisation
• Fallacious generalisations
  • Accident fallacy
  • Overwhelming exception
• Fallacies of relevance
  • Appeal to authority
    • Appeal to false authority
  • Fallacy-fallacy
  • Wishful thinking
    • Arrival fallacy

• Rhetoric on Wikipedia