Aristotle's 13 fallacies

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Aristotle, in his Sophistical Refutations (Sophistici Elenchi), identified thirteen fallacies, as follows:

Linguistic fallacies

• Accent
• Amphiboly
• Equivocation
• Composition and Division (two sides of the same coin)
• Figure of Speech

Non-linguistic fallacies

• Accident
• Affirming the Consequent
• In a Certain Respect and Simply
• Ignorance of Refutation
• Begging the Question
• False Cause
• Many Questions

See also

Full alphabetic list of Fallacies

Unique alphabetic list of Fallacies