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Critical Thought[edit]

Logic, Reason, and Truth[edit]

Constructs of Logic: Anthropic principle; Critical thinking; Logic; Reason; Truth
Prepositional Logic: Logical consequence; Antecedent (logic); Consequent; Contraposition; Inverse (logic); Converse (logic); Negation; Transposition (logic)
Sophistry and Fallacious Reasoning: Sophism; Fallacy
Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations - Verbal Fallacies: Syntactic ambiguity; Affirming the consequent; Equivocation; Fallacy of composition; Fallacy of division; Figure of speech
Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations - Material Fallacies: Converse accident; Begging the question; Questionable cause; Complex question
Formal Fallacies: Formal fallacy; Affirming a disjunct; Denying the antecedent; Argument from fallacy; False dilemma; Existential fallacy; Proof by example; Quantifier shift; Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise; A dicto simpliciter; Fallacy of exclusive premises; Fallacy of necessity; Fallacy of four terms; Illicit major; Illicit minor; Negative conclusion from affirmative premises; Fallacy of the undistributed middle; Circular reasoning; Appeal to probability; Conjunction fallacy; Masked man fallacy
Informal Fallacies: Informal fallacy; Absence paradox; Catch-22 (logic); Blind men and an elephant; Cherry picking (fallacy); False analogy; Fallacy of distribution; Furtive fallacy; Hasty generalization; I'm entitled to my opinion; McNamara fallacy; Name calling; Nirvana fallacy; Rationalization (making excuses); Red herring; Fallacy of relative privation; No true Scotsman; One-sided argument; Slothful induction; Denying the correlative; Suppressed correlative; Misleading vividness; Overwhelming exception; Continuum fallacy; False precision; Slippery slope; False attribution; Fallacy of quoting out of context; Loki's Wager; Moving the goalposts; Reification (fallacy); Animistic fallacy; Pathetic fallacy; Appeal to consequences; Correlation does not imply causation; Gambler's fallacy; Inverse gambler's fallacy; Gambler's conceit; Gambler's ruin; Post hoc ergo propter hoc; Fallacy of prescience; Regression fallacy; Fallacy of the single cause; Texas sharpshooter fallacy; Wrong direction; Philosophic burden of proof; Correlative-based fallacies; Historian's fallacy; Homunculus argument; If-by-whiskey; Incomplete comparison; Inconsistent comparison; Kettle logic; Mind projection fallacy; Moral high ground; Proof by intimidation; Prosecutor's fallacy; Proving too much; Psychologist's fallacy; Retrospective determinism; Faulty generalization; Package-deal fallacy; Parable of the broken window; Definist fallacy; Appeal to emotion; Genetic fallacy; Judgmental language; Ecological fallacy
Relevance Fallacies: Relevance; Accident (fallacy); Ad nauseam; Argument from ignorance; Argument from silence; Argument to moderation; Argumentum ad populum; Double-barreled question; Evidence of absence; Ignoratio elenchi; Invincible ignorance fallacy; Loaded question; Moralistic fallacy; Naturalistic fallacy; Non sequitur (logic); Proof by assertion; Special pleading; Straw man; Two wrongs make a right; Appeal to fear; Appeal to flattery; Appeal to pity; Appeal to ridicule; Think of the children; Invented here; Island mentality; Not invented here; Wisdom of repugnance; Appeal to spite; Ad hominem; Tu quoque; Appeal to accomplishment; Etymological fallacy; Appeal to motive; Appeal to nature; Appeal to novelty; Argumentum ad lazarum; Argumentum ad lapidem; Appeal to tradition; Argumentum ad crumenam; Association fallacy; Bulverism; Chronological snobbery; Ipse dixit; Poisoning the well; Argument from authority; Reductio ad Hitlerum; Argumentum ad baculum; Wishful thinking
Linguistic Fallacies: Idola fori; Idola theatri; Idola specus; Idola tribus; Courtier's Reply; Deductive fallacy; Descriptive fallacy; Double counting (fallacy); Drinking the Kool-Aid; Greedy reductionism; Historical fallacy; Inconsistent triad; Infinite regress; Jingle-jangle fallacies; Politician's syllogism; Post disputation argument; Relativist fallacy; Sunk costs; Survivorship bias; Third-cause fallacy; Three men make a tiger; Trivial objections; Truthiness; Van Gogh fallacy
Personal Biases: Bias; Ambiguity effect; Anchoring; Attentional bias; Availability heuristic; Illusory truth effect; Confirmation bias; Bandwagon effect; Base rate fallacy; Belief bias; Bias blind spot; Clustering illusion; Congruence bias; Conservatism (belief revision); Contrast effect; Curse of knowledge; Decoy effect; Denomination effect; Distinction bias; Duration neglect; Empathy gap; Endowment effect; Experimenter's bias; Functional fixedness; Framing effect (psychology); Baader-Meinhof phenomenon; Hard–easy effect; Hindsight bias; Hostile media effect; Hot-hand fallacy; Hyperbolic discounting; Identifiable victim effect; IKEA effect; Illusion of control; Illusion of validity; Illusory correlation; Impact bias; Information bias (psychology); Insensitivity to sample size; Escalation of commitment; Just-world hypothesis; Less-is-better effect; Ludic fallacy; Mere-exposure effect; Money illusion; Moral credential; Negativity effect; Negativity bias; Neglect of probability; Normalcy bias; Observer-expectancy effect; Omission bias; Optimism bias; Ostrich effect; Outcome bias; Overconfidence effect; Pareidolia; Pessimism bias; Planning fallacy; Post-purchase rationalization; Pro-innovation bias; Pseudocertainty effect; Reactance (psychology); Recency illusion; Restraint bias; Rhyme-as-reason effect; Risk compensation; Selective perception; Semmelweis reflex; Social comparison bias; Status quo bias; Stereotype; Subadditivity effect; Subjective validation; Time-saving bias; Well travelled road effect; Zero-risk bias; Acquiescence bias; Attribution bias; Cognitive bias; Fundamental attribution error; Response bias; Self-serving bias
Social Biases: Actor–observer asymmetry; Defensive attribution hypothesis; Dunning–Kruger effect; Egocentric bias; Extrinsic incentives bias; False-consensus effect; Forer effect; Group attribution error; Halo effect; Illusion of asymmetric insight; Illusion of external agency; Illusion of transparency; Illusory superiority; In-group favoritism; Moral luck; Naïve cynicism; Out-group homogeneity; Projection bias; Shared information bias; System justification; Trait ascription bias; Ultimate attribution error; Worse-than-average effect
Memory Biases: Bizarreness effect; Choice-supportive bias; Childhood amnesia; Cue-dependent forgetting; Cross-race effect; Cryptomnesia; Fading affect bias; Confabulation; Generation effect; Google effect; Leveling and Sharpening; Levels-of-processing effect; Misinformation effect; Modality effect; Memory inhibition; Peak–end rule; Picture superiority effect; Positivity effect; Serial position effect; Reminiscence bump; Rosy retrospection; Misattribution of memory; Spacing effect; Suggestibility; Telescoping effect; Testing effect; Tip of the tongue; Von Restorff effect; Bluma Zeigarnik; Reactive devaluation; Gender differences in eyewitness memory; Self-reference effect
Statistical Biases: Bias of an estimator; Information bias (epidemiology); Lead time bias; Omitted-variable bias; Sampling bias; Selection bias; Self-selection bias; Social desirability bias; Spectrum bias; Systematic error; Systemic bias
Other Biases: FUTON bias; Media bias; No abstract available bias; Publication bias; Reporting bias