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19 Cards in this Set
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The Straw Man Argument
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Build a false argument
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Ad Hominem
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An attack against the arguer rather than the claim
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Appeal to Authority
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Claim that someone else making the claim establishes its validity
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Special Pleading
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The justification is that the claim is on a higher level than your opponent can comprehend.
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Anecdotal Evidence
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How does the anecdotal translate into factual? Good for suggesting direction of research and bad for providing actual evidence.
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Observational Selection
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Keeping the data that agrees with your premise and disregard other info
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Appeal to Ignorance
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Considering ignorance to be evidence of disbelief.This means anything that is insufficiently explained or understood is impossible.
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Non Sequitur
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It does not follow
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Post Hoc (Ergo Proper Hoc)
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We drove by the rock, we talked, then the tire was flat.
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Confusion of Correlation and Causation
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Rice consumption + Black Hair does not mean eat rice causes black hair
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Slippery Slope
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Legalizing marijuana will lead to the legalization of heroin.
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Excluded Middle
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Reducto Ad Absurdum
There are only two options presented, both of which are extreme. |
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Statistics of Small Numbers
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Drawing conclusions from data sets that are too small and do not give adequate representation of the population.
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Weasel Words
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Intelligent Design
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Fallacy of the Consequent
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Drawing an invalid subset relationships in the wrong direction is called the fallacy of the consequent.
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Load Question
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Fallacy of Multiple Questions, Plurium interrogationum
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Red Herring
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Inserted into an argument to distract away from the main point.
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Proof by Verbosity
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The practice of burying you in so much information and misinformation it is called proof by verbosity
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Poisoning the Well
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When you preface your comments by casually slipping in a derogatory adjective about your opponent or his position.
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