I stumbled across this today... a great list of logical fallacies that I see used all the time on the D newsgroups:

   https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/assets/FallaciesPosterHigherRes.jpg

I might just have to order one of those posters. :)

Later,
Brad

On Saturday, 14 December 2013 at 05:45:43 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote:
> I stumbled across this today... a great list of logical fallacies that I see used all the time on the D newsgroups:
>
>    https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/assets/FallaciesPosterHigherRes.jpg
>
> I might just have to order one of those posters. :)
>
> Later,
> Brad

One not on that chart that Walter's particularly fond of is argumentum e silentio (no insult intended =)).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_silence

On Saturday, 14 December 2013 at 09:43:39 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 December 2013 at 05:45:43 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote:
>> I stumbled across this today... a great list of logical fallacies that I see used all the time on the D newsgroups:
>>
>>   https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/assets/FallaciesPosterHigherRes.jpg
>>
>> I might just have to order one of those posters. :)
>>
>> Later,
>> Brad
>
> One not on that chart that Walter's particularly fond of is argumentum e silentio (no insult intended =)).
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_silence

Wikipedia doesn't explain it very well. http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/logical fallacies.htm#argumentum ex silentio