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10 Cards in this Set
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Ad Hominem |
Personal attack (against man)Person A makes claimPerson b attacks char/actions of ATherefore A’s claim is false
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Ad Vercundiam |
Appeal to authority: where someone who belives because they have authority, that they have authority on soemthing specific |
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Begging the Question (Circular Reasoning, Reasoning in a Circle, Petitio Principii)
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Going around in a circle, never coming to a conclusion, because the conclusion of one thing doesn’t constitute a concrete conclusion |
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Biased Generalization
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Prejudiced statistic |
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Hasty Generalization
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Fallacy of insufficient evidence leading to a hasty conclusion1. Sample S, which is too small, is taken from population P. 2. Conclusion C is drawn about Population P based on S. |
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Post Hoc
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1) A occurs before B. 2) Therefore A is the cause of B. |
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Red Herring
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1. Topic A is under discussion. 2. Topic B is introduced under the guise of being relevant to topic A (when topic B is actually not relevant to topic A). 3. Topic A is abandoned. |
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Slippery Slope
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1. Event X has occurred (or will or might occur). 2. Therefore event Y will inevitably happen. |
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Straw Man Theory
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1. Person A has position X. 2. Person B presents position Y (which is a distorted version of X). 3. Person B attacks position Y. 4. Therefore X is false/incorrect/flawed. |
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Two Wrongs Make a Right
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1. It is claimed that person B would do X to person A. 2. It is acceptable for person A to do X to person B (when A’s doing X to B is not necessary to prevent B from doing X to A).
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