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- Damning the Origin - judging the truth or otherwise of an idea based on its origins
- Damning with Faint Praise - attacking a person by formally praising him, but for an achievement that shouldn't be praised
- Deductive Fallacy - fallacy where deduction goes wrong
- Definist - putting the assumption that one's own position is true, into a definition
- Democratic Fallacy - "lots of people believe this, it must be right"
- Denial of the Antecedent - "If A is true, then B is true; A is false, therefore B is false"
- Denying a Conjunct - "A or B is false; A is false, therefore B is true"
- Denying the Antecedent - "If A is true, then B is true; A is false, therefore B is false"
- Denying the Correlative - hinting that there are other possibilities when in reality there are only two
- Destroying the Exception - generalizing from typical instances
- Destroying the Rule - On the basis of the exceptions from a rule, rejecting the whole rule
- Dicto simpliciter - generalizing from typical instances
- Dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid - generalizing from typical instances
- Digression - while pretending to talk about the subject in question, really talking about something else
- Discarded Differentia - when defining a term, including instances that aren't usually called by that term
- Disjunctive Syllogism Fallacy - "A or B is false; A is false, therefore B is true"
- Disney Fallacy - attributing human traits to other creatures or inanimate objects
- Distinction without a difference - claiming there is a difference between two identical concepts
- Distraction - distracting attention from an issue by inconspicuously talking about something else
- Distributive Fallacy - confusing the properties of parts with the properties of the whole
- Diversion - while pretending to talk about the subject in question, really talking about something else
- Divine Fallacy - "I can't figure this out, so God must have done it"
- Division - "the whole has that property, therefore the parts of the whole have that property"
- Division Fallacy - "the whole has that property, therefore the parts of the whole have that property"
- Does Not Follow - any fallacy based solely on incorrect logic
- Domino - trying to convince people that two things are similar by erecting between them a chain of things similar to each other
- Domino Theory - trying to convince people that two things are similar by erecting between them a chain of things similar to each other
- Double Standard - making allowances in one's own case, but not in others
- Doublespeak - using an ambiguous word in different senses in the same argument
- Drawing a Negative Conclusion from Affirmative Premises - "Some (or all) A are B; some (or all) B are C; therefore some (or all) A are not C"
- Drawing an Affirmative Conclusion from a Negative Premise - "Some (or all) A are (not) B; some (or all) B are (not) C; therefore some (or all) A are C", with at least one "not"
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