This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as 5 Common Terms That Double as Logical Fallacies.

These are not the only logical fallacies or persuasion techniques out there—just the most common in my experience. If you’re interested in learning more about fallacies, I recommend checking ...

15 COMMON DATA FALLACIES How do we avoid painting a bullseye around the arrow, so that we can interpret the meaning of data in a logical, consistent, and methodological way?

Everywhere you look online, people are debating something. But not all arguments are created equal. Here are ten of the most common logical fallacies you'll encounter on the Internet.

Why do policymakers so often get things wrong, particularly with regard to economic policy?

All fallacies are errors in logic, ergo any fallacy is a “logical” fallacy. Working one of them into an argument is, by definition “bad logic” and working two of them in is just worse logic.

Logical Fallacies 101: Your Holiday Guide for Dinner Table Debates Put down that drumstick and listen all ye well.

The discourse of many of our politicians, media pundits and, most distressingly, the intellectual/academic community are symptomatic of a disturbing malaise of logical thought. Their discourse is ...