3rd Set Terms

Question 1

Understatement

Answer 1

presents something as less significant than it is: “Our team played valiantly and held their team to only eight touchdowns in the first quarter”

Question 2

Litotes

Answer 2

particular form of understatement, denies the opposite of the statement which otherwise would be used: Hitting that telephone pole certainly didn’t do your car any good

Question 3

Contradiction

Answer 3

occurs when one asserts two mutually exclusive propositions: Abortion is wrong, and abortion is not wrong

Question 4

Counterexample

Answer 4

an example that runs counter to a generalization (opposes): Jane argued that all whales are endangers, Belugas are a whale, Belugas are not endangerd, jane’s argument is misproven

Question 5

Deductive Argument

Answer 5

premesies are intened to provide truth to the conclusion, so much so that if they are true it would be impossible for the conclusion to be fals

Question 6

Fallacy

Answer 6

Attractive, but unreliable piece of reasoning

Question 7

Ad hominem

Answer 7

Personally attacking your oponents instead of their arguments, feeling over reason

Question 8

Appeal to Authority

Answer 8

Somebody famous supports an idea, so it must be good

Question 9

Appeal to bandwagon

Answer 9

The claim that many people believe this, or used to: in the 1800s, bloodletting cured sickness

Question 10

Appeal to emotion

Answer 10

Attempt to replace a logical argument with an appeal to the audience’s emotions: sympathy, revenge or patriotism