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Fallacies of Reasoning
I. Informational Fallacies
II. Falsities

I. Informational Fallacies
A. False information
B. Questionable information
C. Insufficient information - Induction, neglected aspect, circular reasoning, availability bias, story bias
D, Selected information - Confirmation bias, cherry picking, halo effect, horn effect
E. Vague information - Vague term, vague comparison, vague quantity
F. Irrelevant information - Genetic fallacy, personal attack, personal acclaim, authority bias, appeal to receiver, emotional appeal

II. Falsities
A False information
B. False comparison
C. False analogy
D. False authority
E. False dilemma
F. False coherence (Non-sequitur)
G. False application
H. False issue (Ignoratio elenchi, red herring, smokescreen, wild goose chase)
I. False principle - Composition, division, pleading ignorance, argument from silence, post hoc. swimmer's body illusion, single cause fallacy
J. False criterion of truth - appearance (naive realism), feeling, intuition, custom and tradition, time, newness, instinct, majority, consensus, authority, consistency, practical consequence (pragmatism)
K. False assumption
L. False middle term (Equivocation)
M. Falsity from fallacy (Considering the conclusion false due to a fallacy.)

Why did you put this here?

Jori, it would greatly help the rest of us if you tried to express your post in propositional form, otherwise it is not entirely clear what philosophical point you are trying to make, particularly as some of your categories overlap.