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Colorful Fallacies Chart

The website Information Is Beautiful has put together a colorful chart of over 50 fallacies, sorted into six different categories. Created by David McCandless, it’s also available to purchase as a poster in multiple languages. Online versions are available in Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish.

UPDATE: Some of the entries are less than ideal. Please suggest alternative pithy ways of putting  them and perhaps we can get the McCandless to create a revised version. Suggestions for additions welcome, too.

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Dudimus Prime
Dudimus Prime
11 years ago

I thought only arguments/reasoning could be fallacious, but a bunch of the “examples” in that chart are just claims, e.g. “milk is good for the bones.”

Dudimus Prime
Dudimus Prime
11 years ago

Also some of the definitions don’t seem right at all. For example: “Begging the question: making a claim while leaving out one or more major contributing factors that may affect the conclusion”

Richard Zach
11 years ago

Apparently “begging the question” no longer means what philosophers think it means.

Julinna Oxley
Julinna Oxley
11 years ago

This logical fallacy poster has more accurate definitions: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/poster

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