Still more strategies to ensure dominance in debate club and/or with an unsuspecting significant other:
• Denying the antecedent: If x, then y. Not x. Therefore not y. “If I had fudge on my chin, you’d know I bogarted the very last of the jamocha almond fudge. Do you see said fudge? No. Thus am I exonerated!”
• Disjunctive fallacy: X and/or y. Not x. Therefore not y. “So, I see you accuse both me and the dog. But in fact the dog is allergic to chocolate! Thus am I exonerated!”
• Division fallacy: Assuming that all individuals posses characteristics of the group (this is stereotypical stereotyping). “It’s in the nature of a middle-aged woman to bogart the very last of the jamocha almond fudge. Thus you, my dear wife—and not I—have done exactly that.”
• Existential fallacy: Are there any members in that category? “Standing before you are all the people who have not bogarted the very last of the jamocha almond fudge. You are the only other suspect. Thus, j’accuse!”
• False analogy: A misleading comparison. “Gandhi, a man similar to myself in many respects, wouldn’t have bogarted the last of the jamocha almond fudge.”