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16 Cards in this Set
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Scare Tactics
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Manipulating the audience's sense of fear to lead them to a conclusion
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Emotional fallacy
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False Dilemma
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Oversimplifying an issue by reducing it down to two choices
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Emotional fallacy
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Slippery Slope
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Suggesting that a decision will start a chain reaction that will end in disasterous consequences
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Emotional fallacy
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Bandwagon
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Reasoning that a particular opinion is right or wrong because lots of people agree
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Emotional fallacy
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Ad Populum
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"To the people." Appealing to an individuals feelings of being part of a homogenized group
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Emotional fallacy
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Appeal to false authority
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Saying that a claim is valid simply because someone says it's valid
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Ethical fallacy
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Ad hominem
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"To the man." Attacking the opponent's personal qualities rather than the quality of his/her arguments
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Ethical fallacy
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Straw Man
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Characterizing the opponent's position in a far-fetched and ridiculous fashion
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Ethical fallacy
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Hasty generalization
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Drawing a conclusion based on too few examples
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Logical fallacy
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Post hoc
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"After this, therefore because of this" Suggesting that one event caused another simply because one happened before the other.
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Logical fallacy
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Begging the question
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Presenting a claim as fact without giving any support
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Logical fallacy
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Equivocation
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Manipulating language to make the listener percieve a more acceptable meaning than the actual truth.
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Logical fallacy
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Non sequitur
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"Does not follow." Giving a reason to back up a claim that doesn't have anything to do with the claim.
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Logical fallacy
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False analogy
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Making a comparison to make a point when the two things being compared are fundamentally different.
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Logical fallacy
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Circular reasoning
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Giving a reason to support a claim that is basically a reworded version of the claim
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Logical fallacy
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Red herring
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The introduction of a side topic that has nothing to do with the topic being discussed
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Logical fallacy
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