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19 Cards in this Set
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Ad Hominem
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occurs whenever there is an attack on another perosn, instead f the person's argument. (abusive ) (person's character
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ad homine circumstational
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attack on a persons associations (ex. church friends, where they are employed )
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Tu - quo
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Hypocrite attacks indivduals who don't follow their own advice
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Ad populum
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patriotism or popular appeal
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Ad verecundiam
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appeal to authority (ex.Eisteen loved to play piano so you should to)
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Ad Baculum
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threatening is used to persuade
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Ad miscericordian
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appeal to pity
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Ad ignoratiam
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says because you don't have knowledge about the topic than the person saying it must be true
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Accident
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general rule or principle or rule is applied to a special case
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Hasty Generalization
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occurs when a generalization or moral principle is drawn on the basis of too small a sample or a atypical case
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Biased Statistic
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occurs when an inference is drawn on the basis of a sample that is not diverse enough
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Bifurcation
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often called a false dichotomy involves reducing a choice to only two options when if fact, more options exist
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Complex Question
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takes the form of a question which two questions rolled into one
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Misleading vividness
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occurs when strong evidence is completely overlooked because of a striking counterexample
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Post Hoc
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because something precedes something else means that it must the cause the later thing to happen
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Red Herring
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an irrelevant line of reasoning is intentionally used to divert people away from the topic at hand
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Slippery Slope
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involves cause-and -effect reasoning that fails to establish the links
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Straw Man
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fallacy that involves unfairly diminishing or distorting the opposition so one can stand out in comparison.
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Begging the question
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a fallacy consisting of circular reasoning repeating ones self
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