fallacies
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longhorn845 on February 7, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 argument to the people | appeal to stirring symbols |
| sentimental appeals | tugging at one's emotions so one ignores the facts |
| appeal to ignorance | appeal based on something that the audience has no idea of knowing and therefore no way of refuting |
| appeal to irrational premises | appeals to reason that have no basis in logic |
| bandwagon | appeal that it is ok because every one is doing it |
| provincialism | what is known is better that what is unknown;us vs them |
| red herring | shifting audience's attention from a crucial issue to an irrelevant 1 |
| scare tactics | frightening people into agreement |
| appeal to force | making a threat,either emotionally or physically |
| appeal to pity | bringing pity to someone |
| argument by poetic language | sounds good,must be right |
| appeal to vanity | appealing to ones pride |
| euphenism/dysphemism | pleasant sounding expression substituted for unpleasant expression,positive or neutral feeling/making something sound worse than it is |
| appeal to false authority | appealing to authority who is in expert in a different field or a non existing authority |
| appeal to unknown authority | don't cite the source,use vague resources that appear to cite sources |
| appeal to the masses | it must be true or right because everone thinks so |
| apeal to the person/ad hominem | attack the person's character rather than the person's argument/position |
| straw person | greatly oversimplyfing an opponent's argument to make it easier to refute |
| dogmatism | ending discussion because the speaker's beliefs are the only ones that are acceptable |
| moral equivalence | compares minor issues to major issues or vice versa |
| begging the question | support is a restatement of the claim in diff words |
| complex question | confront the opponent with a q that will put them in a bad light no matter how they respond |
| false dilemma/either-or | oversimplifying an issue to make it appear only 2 choices exist |
| line-drawing | suggesting one must take a side,similar but not identical to false dilemma |
| perfectionist | idea that if something cannot be done completely or perfectly, then it shouldn't be done at all |
| equivocation | using to your advantage at least 2 diff definitions of the same term or concept |
| confusing correlation for cause | assuming that event x caused y because event x preceded event y |
| slippery slope | idea that once we take a step in a direction we don't like,we have to keep going |
| non sequitor | an illogical leap,a gap in chain of reason,use of irrelevant terms |
| hasty generalization | draws conclusion from incomplete evidence |
| faulty analogy | an innacurate or misleading comparison |
| proof surrogates | "obviously" "clearly" |
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