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The Nizkor Project - Fallacies

Dr. Michael C. Labossiere, the author of a Macintosh tutorial named Fallacy Tutorial Pro 3.0 agreed to allow the text of his work to appear on the Nizkor site.

At the bottom of the opening page there is a link to the home page of the Nizkor Project. The Nizkor site holds extensive information about the Holocaust. It is dedicated to the millions of Holocaust victims who suffered and died at the hands of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime.

The opening page on fallacies has an index of fallacies on the left and an overview of fallacies on the right. The overview is a brief, three paragraph description of deductive arguments, inductive arguments, and errors in reasoning. The index of fallacies holds 42 entries, from Ad Hominem to Two Wrongs a Right. Each fallacy on the index is a link to its own page.

Each fallacy page is divided into two major sections, the description of the fallacy and examples of the fallacy. The description might be preceded by a list of alternate names of the fallacy. For example, the Post Hoc fallacy is also known as Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc, False Cause, Questionable Cause, and Confusing Coincidental Relationships With Causes. The description of the Post Hoc fallacy has an outline of its form followed by a four paragraph exposition of the fallacy. This is followed by six clear examples of the Post Hoc fallacy. The page for the Post Hoc fallacy is typical of the pages for the other fallacies.

A useful addition would be a link to a complete list of all of the mentioned names of the 42 entries. Each of these names could be linked to the appropriate page. For example, a user might want information about the False Cause fallacy without realizing that this fallacy is listed as the Post Hoc fallacy.