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26 Cards in this Set
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Ad hominem |
Attack the person |
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Scare tactics |
Used to stampede legitimate fears into panic or prejudice |
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Sentimental appeals |
Uses tender emotions to detract from truth/facts |
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Bandwagon appeals |
Urge people to follow the path everyone is taking |
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Atmosphere of obsession |
Focussing on one specific aspect while missing everything else |
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Loaded question |
Asking a question that has an assumption built into it so that it cannot be answered without appearing guilty |
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Appeals to nature |
Making the argument that because something is natural it is good |
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False authority |
Writers try to present themselves as honest well informed, likable, or sypathetic |
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Special pleading |
Moving the goal post |
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Dogmatism |
Twitter attempts to persuade by creating an assumption that a particular position is the only acceptable one within a community |
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Moral equivalence |
Serious wrong doings do not differ from minor offenses |
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Personal incredulity |
Saying that because one finds something difficult to understand/believe it is not true |
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Ambiguity |
Using double meaning to mislead or misrepresent the truth |
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Hasty generalization |
An inference drawn from insufficient evidence |
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Faulty causality |
Because one event follows another, the first caused the second |
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Begging the question |
Where the conclusion is assumed in one of the premises |
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Equivocation |
Saying that things that are different are the same |
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Gamblers fallacy |
The belief that is something happens more frequently than normal it will happen less frequently in the future or vise-versa |
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Composition/ division logic |
Assuming that if it is true for a part it must be true for a whole |
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Burden of proof |
Whoever brings it up has to provide the proof |
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Either or |
Reducing the argument to only two choices |
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Fallacy fallacy |
Using a fallacy does not make you wrong |
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Non-sequitor |
Claims reasons or warrants fail to connect logically |
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Genetic fallacy |
Judging something good or bad on the basis of where it is from |
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Middle ground |
Saying that a compromise between two extremes must be the truth |
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Faulty analogy |
Comparisons are often useful but can become false if pushed too far |
