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- Canceling Hypotheses - when defending a hypothesis that should have certain consequences, explaining away the absence of the consequences by introducing a new hypothesis that cancels the effect of the first
- Card Stacking - picking and choosing the evidence for one's case, neglecting the evidence against it
- Categorical Error - confusing the properties of parts with the properties of the whole
- Category Error - confusing the properties of parts with the properties of the whole
- Causal Fallacy - any fallacy in trying to find the reason why something happened
- Causal Oversimplification - identifying only part of the cause of an event and calling it "the cause"
- Celebrity Endorsement - "he's famous, he must be right"
- Changing the Subject - while pretending to talk about the subject in question, really talking about something else
- Character Assassination - attacking, instead of the position or argument, the person who holds it.
- Cherishing the Zombie - digging up old ideas that have been refuted long ago
- Circular Argument - using a reformulation of an opinion as justification for that opinion
- Circular Definition - defining a term by (indirectly) using the term itself
- Circular Evidence - collecting evidence for a hypothesis in a way that the result is necessarily positive
- Circular Explanation - something that sounds like an explanation but isn't because it doesn't predict anything
- Circular Justification - justifying an opinion by assuming it is true
- Circular Reasoning - using a reformulation of an opinion as justification for that opinion
- Circulus in demonstrando - using a reformulation of an opinion as justification for that opinion
- Circulus in probando - using a reformulation of an opinion as justification for that opinion
- Circumstantial Ad Hominem - rejecting a position because the person holding it has a vested interest in holding it
- Clouding the Issue - while pretending to talk about the subject in question, really talking about something else
- Clustering Illusion - the illusion that random events occurring in clusters are not really random events
- Coincidental Correlation - concluding that A causes B if A and B are statistically correlated
- Colored Words - when arguing for one hypothesis, using words that presuppose that hypothesis to be true
- Common Belief - "lots of people believe this, it must be right"
- Common Cause - concluding that A caused B when in fact both are the effect of C
- Common Practice - "other people do this all the time, so I can do it too"
- Commutation of Conditionals - "if A is true, then B is true; therefore, if B is true, A is true"
- Complex Causation - identifying only part of the cause of an event and calling it "the cause"
- Complex Cause - identifying only part of the cause of an event and calling it "the cause"
- Complex Hypothesis Fallacy - proposing an explanation containing unnecessary entities
- Complex Question - asking a question that doesn't allow an answer that denies a certain idea
- Complex Question Fallacy - asking a question that doesn't allow an answer that denies a certain idea
- Composition - "a part has that property, therefore the whole has that property"
- Composition Fallacy - "a part has that property, therefore the whole has that property"
- Concealed Evidence - picking and choosing the evidence for one's case, neglecting the evidence against it
- Conceptual Fallacy - misuse of concepts
- Concorde Fallacy - continuing to favor something to avoid having to admit a mistake
- Concretism - treating an abstract concept like a real thing and forgetting its origin
- Confabulation Fallacy - using stories as evidence which have already been selected for availability or interest
- Confirmation Bias - looking for data that confirm a hypothesis, not looking for data that disprove it
- Conflicting Conditions - putting conditions into a definition that contradict each other
- Confounding Factor - concluding that A caused B when in fact both are the effect of C
- Confusing "if" with "if and only if" - drawing a conclusion in the course of which an "if" changes its meaning to "if and only if"
- Confusing "inclusive or" with "exclusive or" - drawing a conclusion in the course of which an "or" changes its meaning to "exclusive or"
- Confusing Cause and Effect - concluding that A caused B when it's the other way around
- Confusion of Correlation and Causation - concluding that A causes B if A and B are statistically correlated
- Confusion of Necessary with a Sufficient Condition - "if A is true, then B is true; B is true, therefore A is true"
- Conjunction Fallacy - the assumption that an event is less probable than a typical specific case of that event
- Consensus Gentium - "lots of people believe this, it must be right"
- Consensus Gentium Fallacy - "lots of people believe this, it must be right"
- Consequence - "this belief has really bad (good) consequences, it must be wrong (right)"
- Consequences - "this belief has really bad (good) consequences, it must be wrong (right)"
- Conspiracy Theory - "the evidence is not there because someone hid it"
- Context Imposition - arguing from the own position and not acknowledging the existence of other possibilities
- Continuum Fallacy - trying to convince people that two things are similar by erecting between them a chain of things similar to each other
- Contrary-to-facts Hypothesis Fallacy - speculating what would have happened in other circumstances, then drawing conclusions from the speculation
- Converse Accident - On the basis of the exceptions from a rule, rejecting the whole rule
- Converting a Conditional - "if A is true, then B is true; therefore, if B is true, A is true"
- Converting the Conditional - "if A is true, then B is true; therefore, if B is true, A is true"
- Correlation Fallacy - concluding that A causes B if A and B are statistically correlated
- Correlation Implies Causation - concluding that A causes B if A and B are statistically correlated
- Correlation vs. Causation - concluding that A causes B if A and B are statistically correlated
- Correlative Based Fallacy - misuse of complementary sets
- Corrupt Source - accepting data or concepts from a source one would normally reject, because this time it's favorable for one's cause
- Counterfactual Fallacy - speculating what would have happened in other circumstances, then drawing conclusions from the speculation
- Cover-up - picking and choosing the evidence for one's case, neglecting the evidence against it
- Creating Misgivings - distracting the audience and the opponent by baseless accusations against the opponent
- Cultural Fallacy - arguing from the own position and not acknowledging the existence of other possibilities
- Cum hoc ergo propter hoc - "A happens together with B. So A is the cause of B"
- Cum hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy - "A happens together with B. So A is the cause of B"
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