Debate video library

2,731 moments from championship debates, each tagged with the technique or fallacy it shows, with notes on how to use or counter it in your own rounds.

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• Key Clash (45 clips)
• Dropped Argument (276 clips)
• Logical Fallacy Identification (10 clips)
• Evidence Credibility Problem (86 clips)
• Rebuilding Own Case (Rebuild) (34 clips)
• Impact Comparison (265 clips)
• Capturing Concessions (233 clips)
• Issue Breakdown (Inherently Vital Points) (34 clips)
• Evidence for Argument (33 clips)
• Point-by-Point Rebuttal (46 clips)
• Warrant Attack (176 clips)
• Evidence Challenge (215 clips)
• Turn the Argument (235 clips)
• Internal Inconsistency (190 clips)
• External Inconsistency (4 clips)
• Alternative Causality (77 clips)
• Non-Unique (180 clips)
• Link Attack (156 clips)
• Overclaim (38 clips)
• Strategic Silence (2 clips)
• Equivocation (17 clips)
• Loaded Words / Ad Misericordiam (13 clips)
• Accident (Exception Used to Deny the Rule) (25 clips)
• Analogical Fallacy (38 clips)
• Ad Hominem (8 clips)
• Straw Man (40 clips)
• Slippery Slope (19 clips)
• Red Herring (9 clips)
• Ad Populum (Appeal to Popularity) (11 clips)
• Ad Baculum (Appeal to Force)
• Blinding with Science (5 clips)
• Reification (3 clips)
• Hedging (9 clips)
• Half-Concealed Qualification (3 clips)
• Inductive Fallacies (26 clips)
• Cum Hoc (Correlation as Causation) (35 clips)
• Gambler's Fallacy (1 clips)
• Genetic Fallacy (16 clips)
• One-Sided Assessment (3 clips)
• False Precision (4 clips)
• Ex-Post-Facto Statistics (1 clips)
• Ad Numeram (Appeal to Numbers) (3 clips)
• Ad Novitam (Appeal to Novelty)
• Affirming the Consequent
• Denying the Antecedent (1 clips)
• Petitio Principii (Circular Reasoning) (22 clips)
• Complex Question (2 clips)
• Composition (Part to Whole) (5 clips)
• Contradictory Premises (6 clips)
• Undistributed Middle (1 clips)
• Illicit Process (Illicit Distribution)
• Positive Conclusion from Negative Premise
• Special Pleading (12 clips)
• Poisoning the Well (1 clips)
• Tu Quoque (6 clips)
• Trivial Objections (2 clips)
• Dicto Simpliciter (Overgeneralization) (29 clips)
• Secundum Quid (Ignoring Qualifications) (6 clips)
• Concealed Quantification (1 clips)
• False Conversion (3 clips)
• Illicit Process (Scope Error)
• Extensional Pruning
• Ambiguous Authority (10 clips)