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Scare Tactics
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Type of fallacy that is very common and uses fear to persuade in an argument
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Either-or Choices
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Type of Fallacy that argues by reducing options for the reader. Example: either you can eat your broccoli or you won't get dessert
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Slippery Slope
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The Fallacy that insinuates a dire consequence for a minor action-exaggerates. (They can be considered a type of scare tactic)
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Sentimental Appeals
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Type of Fallacy that uses tender emotions excessively to distract readers from facts. Highly personal and individual
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Bandwagon Appeals
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Fallacy that urges people to follow the same path everyone else is taking
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Appeals to False Authority
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Fallacy where a writer draws an authority of a widely respected person, institution, and text for support.
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Dogmatism
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A Fallacy that implies that there are no arguments to be made: the truth is self-evident to those who know better
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Moral Equivalence
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A Fallacy of argument perhaps more common today than in earlier decades is ____. Suggesting that serious wrong-doings don't differ in kind from minor offenses.
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Ad Hominem Arguments
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Arguments that are attacks directed at the character of a person rather than at the claims he or she makes
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Hasty Generalization
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A hasty generalization is an interference drawn from insufficient evidence
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Faulty Casualty
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Fallacy that is an assumption that because one event or action follows another, the first necessarily causes the second.
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Begging the Question
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A Fallacy in the form of a circular argument: " you can't give me a C, im an A student!"
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Equivocation
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A Fallacy that is usually a juvenile trick of language. Ex. plagiarism. Girl copies word for word off article: "I wrote it myself..."
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Non Sequitur
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(Fallacy) an argument in which claims, reasons, or warrants fail to connect logically; one point doesn't follow from another
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The Straw Man
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A Fallacy that attacks an argument that isn't really there one that's much weaker or more extreme than the one opponent is actually making. It's easy to knock down
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Faulty Analogy
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Type of Fallacy that is simply a faulty analogy, inaccurate or inconsequential comparison between two objects or concepts.
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