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10 Cards in this Set
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Ad Hominem
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Latin: "to the man"
- type of fallacy where the argument in not against the issues, but against the speaker |
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Ad Populum (Bandwagon Appeal)
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Latin: "to the people"
- type of fallacy where "everyone is doing it so it must be right" |
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Appeal to False Authority
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- when someone who has no expertise in a feild, is taken as an authority
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Begging the Question
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-fallacy occuring when a claim is based on evidence or support that is in doubt
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Circular Reasoning
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- fallacy in which the writer repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence
- "That's stupid, because that's stupid!" |
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Either/Or (False Dilemma)
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- fallacy where the speaker presents two extreme options as the only possible choices
- denies middle grounds |
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Faulty Analogy
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- compares two things that are not comparable
- ex.) Employees are like nails. Just as nails must be hit in the head in order to make them work, so must employees. |
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Hasty Generalization
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- fallacy where a faulty conclusion is reached because of inadequate evidence
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc
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- Latin: "After which therefore due to which"
- (after it, therefore due to) - a fallacy where one assumes that just because two things happened, the first caused the second - correlation does not equal causation |
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Straw-Man
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- fallacy that occurs when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor and oversimplified idea to refute an idea
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