I found this site, offering "A list of Fallacious Arguments".

http://www.don-linds.../arguments.html

I thought it might be beneficial to this entire forum for not only the more agressive debaters, but all, to read the list and try to avoid any of the listed fallacious arguments while debating.

It coiuld be a game/competition whereby each time a debater uses one of the fallacious arguments, he/she scores a point. The scoreboard could be set up like a poll with all the main contenders names as options, and only SBK (say) can "vote" on it,...or a running score as each transgression occurs?

The "game" is continuous and applies to all posts in all threads in OTB.

Anyone interested in the game?

If not, never mind....the list should be usefull to us all anyway.

All cats die; Socrates died; therefore Socrates was a cat.

I knew it!