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• Vacuous Explanation - when trying to explain a phenomenon, using a concept that does not contain more information than the phenomenon itself
• Vague Similarities - when arguing for one hypothesis to be true, pointing out another, true hypothesis having some superficial similarities to the first
• Vagueness - using a term that has fuzzy boundaries as if it hadn't
• Variant Imagization - when arguing for one hypothesis, using words that presuppose that hypothesis to be true
• Very Simple Answer - if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail to you
• Vicious Circle - "A must be true because B is true, and we know that B is true because of A"
• Violating the Principle of Occam's Razor - proposing an explanation containing unnecessary entities
• Virtue of the Poor - "he's poor, he must be right"
• Volvo Fallacy - preferring available interesting single cases to statistics