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Fallacy of many questions

Fallacy of many questions (complex question, fallacy of presupposition, loaded question, plurium interrogationum) – someone asks a question that presupposes something that has not been proven or accepted by all the people involved.

This fallacy is often used rhetorically, so that the question limits direct replies to those that serve the questioner's agenda.
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Fallacies
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Informal fallacies
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Fallacy of many questions
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(Shifting the) Burden of proof
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Argument from ignorance
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Argument from repetition
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Argument from silence
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Argument to moderation
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Argumentum verbosium
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Begging the question
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Circular cause and consequence
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Continuum fallacy
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Correlation does not imply causation
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Correlative-based fallacies
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Ecological fallacy
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Equivocation
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Etymological fallacy
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Fallacy of composition
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Fallacy of division
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Fallacy of the single cause
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False attribution
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False dilemma
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Gambler's fallacy
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Historian's fallacy
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Homunculus fallacy
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If-by-whiskey
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Ignoratio elenchi
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Incomplete comparison
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Inconsistent comparison
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Intentional fallacy
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Kettle logic
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Ludic fallacy
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Mind projection fallacy
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Moving the goalposts
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Nirvana fallacy
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Onus probandi
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Petitio principii
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc
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Proof by verbosity
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Prosecutor's fallacy
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Psychologist's fallacy
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Red herring
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Regression fallacy
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Reification
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Retrospective determinism
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Self-contradiction
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Special pleading
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Straw man
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Wrong direction
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