Fallacies Flashcards

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value claim

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Is a claim that something is right or wrong, good or bad, beautiful or ugly, better or worse’s important or trivial, and so on.

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Fallacies

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Making bad arguments look good

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Formal fallacy

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Fallacies found in the form or structure an argument. Only deductive arguments can be formally fallacious

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Informal fallacy

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These fallacies are more subtle and can only be detected by examining an arguments content

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Appeal to force (argument ad bacculum)

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This fallacy always involves a threat by the arguer to the physical or psychological well-being of the listener, whether an individual or group of people

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Appeal to pity

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The argue attempt to support theirargument by attempting to evoke pity from the listener

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Argumentum Ad popusum (argument to the people)

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Argue uses the listener’s desire to be loved, recognized, and accepted by a group to get the listener to accept a conclusion.

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Direct ad populum

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A rouse a mob mentality of a large group of people to win acceptance for a conclusion.

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Indiret ad popular

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Argument is aimed directly at an individuals relationship with the crowd

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Direct ad populum forms

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Appeal to fear,- fear mongering

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Indirect ad populum forms

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Bandwagon-everybody believes it, so you should too
Appeal to vanity- connect the love of the crowd with the attributes or activities of a famous person
Appeal to shobbery- appeal to a small group that is supposed to be superior in some way
Appeal to tradition -argues that because summoning nas always been one way it should continue to be that way.

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Argumentum ad hominem argument against the person

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A refufutional fallen. Refutational fallacies always involves arguers, one responds to the claims of the other by attacking the person herself and not the argument
Ad hominem abusive - the argner verbally abusesth first
Ad hominem circumstantial - respondent attempts to discredit the opponent by sewing that their circumstances predispose them argue to a certain-way
Tu quote (‘you too’) or E pointing to Th other wrongly-secoundargner attends is a hypo route in someway
Exception when an attach is used to call into question the character or tussworthiness of and another its surpeopa

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Straws man

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