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- Sanctioning the Devil - avoiding debate with someone because debating him would give him undue credit
- Scapegoating - blaming a problem on an already unpopular group
- Scare Tactic - trying to scare people away from an opinion
- Scope - if a word in a sentence refers to a certain part of the sentence, making it appear to refer to another part
- Scope Fallacy - if a word in a sentence refers to a certain part of the sentence, making it appear to refer to another part
- Secundum quid - generalizing on the basis of a very few and possibly unrepresentative cases
- Selective Sampling - drawing a conclusion based on a sample that is not representative for the whole
- Selective Thinking - the process whereby one selects out favorable evidence for remembrance and focus, while ignoring unfavorable evidence for a belief
- Self Exclusion -
- Self-Deception - the process or fact of misleading ourselves to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy - making a prediction that will have the effect that the predicted event happens
- Self-righteousness - "I have the heart at the right spot, so I must be right"
- Semantical Ambiguity - using an ambiguous word in different senses in the same argument
- Sham Distinctions - claiming there is a difference between two identical concepts
- Sherlock Holmes Fallacy - listing explanations, shooting all of them down except one, and accepting that as truth
- Shifting Meaning - using an ambiguous word in different senses in the same argument
- Shifting of Accent - changing the meaning of a sentence by emphasizing a part of it
- Shifting the Accent - changing the meaning of a sentence by emphasizing a part of it
- Shifting the Burden of Proof -
- Shingle Speech - agglomerating several different superficial aspects of a subject, in hopes that the resulting verbal structure will be comprehensible
- Shoehorning - force-fitting some current affair into one's personal, political, or religious agenda
- Side-tracking - while pretending to talk about the subject in question, really talking about something else
- Silence Implies Consent - interpreting silence as consent
- Simplistic-Complexity - asserting that the solution to a problem will turn out to be as complex as the problem itself
- Single Causation - concluding that A caused B when in fact both are the effect of C
- Slanting - picking and choosing the evidence for one's case, neglecting the evidence against it
- Slanting Fallacy - picking and choosing the evidence for one's case, neglecting the evidence against it
- Slippery Slope -
- Slippery Slope Argument - In order to show that a proposition P is unacceptable, a sequence of increasingly unacceptable events is shown to follow from P
- Slippery Slope Fallacy -
- Slothful Induction - demanding an unfairly high amount of evidence before accepting an idea
- Small Sample - generalizing from very few instances
- Smear Campaign - distracting the audience and the opponent by baseless accusations against the opponent
- Smear Tactic - distracting the audience and the opponent by baseless accusations against the opponent
- Smokescreen - while pretending to talk about the subject in question, really talking about something else
- Smuggled Concept - using a concept while ignoring or denying the concepts on which it is based
- Snob Appeal - "most people don't believe this, it must be right"
- Sob Story - "he's suffering that much, he must be right"
- Social Identification - rejecting a position because the person holding it belongs to a certain group
- Some Are/Some Are Not - "some A are B, therefore some A are not B"
- Sorites - rejecting a claim because it contains an element which is not clear-cut
- Sorites Fallacy - rejecting a claim because it contains an element which is not clear-cut
- Sour Grapes - denigrating something one can't have
- Special Pleading - "Everything must have a cause except God, who is special."
- Specificity - being more precise and specific than the evidence warrants
- Speculative Evidence - drawing conclusions from evidence that hasn't been collected yet, but that, one supposes, would have come out in favor of one's own opinion
- Speculative Fallacy - speculating what would have happened in other circumstances, then drawing conclusions from the speculation
- Splitting the Difference - claiming that in a given conflict, the middle ground must be the correct answer
- Spoken Simply - generalizing from typical instances
- Spotlight - drawing a conclusion based on the sample of data that is widely circulated
- Spotlight Fallacy - drawing a conclusion based on the sample of data that is widely circulated
- Spurious Accuracy - being more precise and specific than the evidence warrants
- Spurious Agreement - appeal to the personal preferences, dislikes, or weaknesses of those one wants to convince
- Spurious Causation - claiming that A causes B, when B is mainly caused by other factors, A contributing only very little
- Spurious Relationship - concluding that A caused B when in fact both are the effect of C
- Spurious Superficiality - trying to undermine the main point by complaining about a minor point
- Stacking the Deck - picking and choosing the evidence for one's case, neglecting the evidence against it
- Statistical Generalization - generalizing from typical instances
- Statistical Special Pleading - reassessing statistical data in a pick-and-choose manner
- Statistics of Small Numbers - generalizing from very few instances
- Stereotyping - generalizing from a common prejudice
- Stolen Concept - using a concept while ignoring or denying the concepts on which it is based
- Stolen Concept Fallacy - using a concept while ignoring or denying the concepts on which it is based
- Straw Man - misrepresenting the opponent's position
- Straw Man Fallacy - misrepresenting the opponent's position
- Straw Person - misrepresenting the opponent's position
- Style Over Substance - accusing the opponent of using an unaceptabe style while ignoring the content of his arguments
- Subjective Validation - accepting general and vague statements as accurate descriptions of oneself
- Subjectivism - "if it ought be like this, it is like this"
- Subjectivism Fallacy - "one point of view is as good as any other"
- Subjectivist - "one point of view is as good as any other"
- Subjectivist Fallacy - "one point of view is as good as any other"
- Subverted Support - giving an explanation for a non-existing phenomenon
- Sucking Up - trying to compliment people into an opinion
- Sunk-Cost Fallacy - continuing to favor something to avoid having to admit a mistake
- Superstitious Thinking -
- Suppressed Correlative - given two exclusive possibilities, making the definition of one so broad that there is no room left for the other
- Suppressed Evidence - picking and choosing the evidence for one's case, neglecting the evidence against it
- Suppressed Quantification - omitting the actual numbers, which would hurt one's case
- Suppression of the Agent - using passive voice to hide who is the subject who does it
- Surfeit of Questions - asking a question that doesn't allow an answer that denies a certain idea
- Sweeping Generalization - generalizing from typical instances
- Syllogistic - fallacious argument illogically connecting "all A are (not) B" and "some A are (not) B" sentences
- Syllogistic Error - fallacious argument illogically connecting "all A are (not) B" and "some A are (not) B" sentences
- Syllogistic Fallacy - fallacious argument illogically connecting "all A are (not) B" and "some A are (not) B" sentences
- Syntactical Ambiguity - using a sentence which can be interpreted in more than one way because of ambiguous grammar
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