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- Eclectic - picking and choosing ideas without good criteria
- Ecological Fallacy - concluding that a property of an element of a set is like the average value of that property for the set
- Either/Or - giving two possibilities as the only two when in reality there are other possibilities
- Either/Or Fallacy - giving two possibilities as the only two when in reality there are other possibilities
- Either/Or Reasoning - giving two possibilities as the only two when in reality there are other possibilities
- Elephant Repellent - claiming that for A to be true, you need B and C, when in fact B is enough
- Emotional Appeal - trying to influence people's beliefs by arousing emotions in them
- Emotive Language - when arguing for one hypothesis, using words that presuppose that hypothesis to be true
- Emphatic - trying to undermine the main point by complaining about a minor point
- Equivocation - using an ambiguous word in different senses in the same argument
- Equivocation Fallacy - using an ambiguous word in different senses in the same argument
- Error in Observation - expectations influencing the outcome of an observation
- Error in Sampling - bad choice of data sets underlying one's argument
- Escape to the Future - predicting that the evidence will soon be in
- Escape via Ignorance - claiming that there are other persons who have the answers
- Escape via Relativism - "one point of view is as good as any other"
- Etymological - "if the word for it used to mean this, it still means the same"
- Evading the Issue - while pretending to talk about the subject in question, really talking about something else
- Every and All - using the words "every", "all", or "any" in an ambiguous way
- Ex Concessis - attacking the opponent by attacking a person who is somehow related to him
- Exaggeration - claiming that for A to be true, you need B and C, when in fact B is enough
- Excluded Middle - giving two possibilities as the only two when in reality there are other possibilities
- Exclusion - picking and choosing the evidence for one's case, neglecting the evidence against it
- Exclusive Premises - "no mammals are penguins, no mammals are birds. therefore no penguins are birds"
- Exclusivity - if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail to you
- Existential Fallacy - "all unicorns are mammals, therefore some mammals are unicorns"
- Experimenter Bias - when a measurement leaves leeway for the measurer, his prejudices will taint the results
- Extended Analogy - when arguing for one hypothesis to be true, pointing out another, true hypothesis having some superficial similarities to the first
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