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A complete interactive list of logical fallacies & rhetorical devices with examples, from Information is Beautiful.


The word ‘rhetological’ is made up. A munge of two things: rhetorical techniques and logical fallacies.

Both are used heavily by institutional powers – governments, religions, political parties – across the entire spectrum to sway opinion, confuse and obfuscate. And, unfortunately, we internalise them, like bad habits, into our own decision-making and mental processes.