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Logical Fallacies
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- 1Hasty Generalizationinference drawn from insufficient evidence
ex: my new Toyota broke down, so all Toyotas are poorly made - 2Faulty Causalitythe incorrect assumption that one event caused another (aka: correlation does not imply causation)
ex: I blinked right when it started raining. I make it rain whenever I blink! - 3Either/Orunfair oversimplification of an issue by providing only 2 options ass a possibly solution
ex: either you'll sign up for the army, or you support communism - 4Slippery Slopeexaggeration of the likely consequences of an action, designed to show that a misstep today could result in a disaster in the future
- 5Bandwagonarguments urging you to follow the same path that everyone else is taking
NOTE: often used to sway teens & voters
ex: all the cool kids are voting for Bernie Sanders - 6Sentimental Appealplaying on reader's emotions (pathos) to distract them from the facts
- 7Scare Tacticsusing fear to sway people by exaggerating possible dangers well beyond their statistical likelihood
ex: anything Donald Trump says - 8Appeal to False Authoritypresenting an unqualified person or institution as a source of credible information
ex: my doctor says people should vote for Ben Carson, and I trust my doctor, so I will - 9Ad Hominemin Latin, means: "to the man"
when you attack a person's character instead of the quality of their arguments
Tu Quoque is a specific type where you call someone a hypocrite - 10Straw Manmisrepresenting or twisting someone's argument so it's easier to attack and knock down
ex: most times someone starts an argument with "so you're saying that..."
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- Advanced placement English Lang/Comp (Argumentation) Flashcards on Logical Fallacies, created by Ashley Hay on 17/03/2016.
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