Chapter 1: Powerful Ideas Flashcards
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Begging the question
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Assuming that the thing you are trying to prove is proof in and of its self
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Switching the burden of the proof
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“You prove that it doesn’t exist”
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Argumentum ad hominem
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Transferring the attributes of the person arguing to their argument
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Straw man
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Distorting, misrepresenting or exaggerating the truth
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False Dilemma
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Either-or
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Appeal to emotion
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Trying to scare
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Red herring
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Bringing an irrelevancy to an argument
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Metaphysics
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Related to existance
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Epistemology
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Related to knowledge
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Moral philosophy
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Ethics
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Social philosophy
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Society
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Political philosophy
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Politics
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Aesthetics
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Arts
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Socratic method
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Questions
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Reduction ad abserbium
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Demonstrating that a contradictory thesis leads to an absurdity
