
The 10 Commandments of logic
- Thou shall not attack a persons character, but the argument. (ad hominem)
- Thou shall not misrepresent or exaggerate a persons argument in order to make them easier to attack. (straw man fallacy)
- Thou shall not use small numbers to represent the whole. (hasty generalization)
- Thou shall not argue the position by assuming one of it’s premisses is true. (begging the question)
- Thou shall not claim because something occurred before, it must be the cause. (post hoc/false cause)
- Thou shall not reduce the argument down to two positions. (false dichotomy)
- Thou shall not argue that because of our ignorance, claim must be true or false. (ad ignorantum)
- Thou shall not lay the burden of proof onto him that is questioning the claim. (burden of proof reversal)
- Thou shall not assume “this” follows “that” when it has no logical connection. (non sequitur)
- Thou shall not claim that because a premise is popular, therefore it must be true. (bandwagon fallacy)