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by kazinator 3254 days ago
> I have no idea why you are italicizing types of logical fallacies.

If I were to guess, it is because it it is a term from a foreign language, in this case Latin, not because it is the name of a logical fallacy.

There exists an orthographic, or perhaps typographic practice in English to italicize words and phrases borrowed from other languages, like à la carte, du jour, sine qua non, ...