fallacies

Question 1

strawman

Answer 1

occurs when someone takes another person’s argument or point, distorts it or exaggerates it in some kind of extreme way, and then attacks the extreme distortion, as if that is really the claim the first person is making

Question 2

no true scotsman

Answer 2

making a generalization in which rhetoric like emotionally charged but nonsubstantive purity platitudes such as “true”, “pure”, “genuine”, “authentic”, “real” are used.

Question 3

bandwagon

Answer 3

it’s all about getting people to do or think something because “everyone else is doing it” or “everything else thinks this.”

Question 4

ad hominem

Answer 4

an argument or reaction directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.

Question 5

begging the question

Answer 5

that occurs when an argument’s premises assume the truth of the conclusion, instead of supporting it. ex: “Green is the best color because it is the greenest of all colors”