Ehhe Flashcards
Red Herring
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Ad Hominem
Personal insult
Faulty Analogy
Poor comparison
Straw Man
Makes the argument seem ridiculous
Either/Or
Two options
Hasty Generalization
Scarty Evidence
Circular Reasoning
Repeats claim
Post Hoc
One does not cause
Appeal to false authority
Not really an expert
Bandwagon appeal
Join/everyone’s doing it
Scare tactic
Frightening you into something
Claim of value
Good or bad
Claim of fact
Wrong or right
Claim of policy
proposing a change
personal experience
makes an abstract issue more human
Anecdotes
Stories about other people that you’ve either observed, been told about, or researched
Current events
aware of what is happening locally, nationally, and globally ensures a store of information
historical information
common type of evidence in historical information - verifiable facts that a writer knows from research
expert opinion
opinion from someone experienced
quantitative evidence
includes things that can be represented in numbers or verbal explanations x like graphs, charts, or tables.
claim
state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof.
argument
an exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one.
