Category:Rhetorical deceptions

A

• Acorn tossing
• Appeal to calmness
• Appeal to emotion
• Appeal to guilt
• Argument by contradiction
• Argument from overabundance

B

• Big Lie
• Black box argument

C

• Chewbacca defense
• Claim-smuggling

D

• Denialism

D cont.

• Dismissive statement

E

• Equating the individual with the office
• Euphemisms

F

• Fake explanation

L

• Logical fallacy

M

• Mirror argument
• Moving the goalposts

N

• Naked assertion

P

• Partisanship
• Pocketing the question
• Position dancing

R

• Rationalization
• Rhetorical spin

S

• Skepticism bypass
• Straw-man advocacy
• Sugar coating

T

• Throwing spaghetti
• Topic shifting
• Troll phrase

W

• Weasel words