Fallacies Flashcards

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Ad Hominem (Personal Attack)

A

Attacking a person for a character trait, rather than the quality or soundness of their argument

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2
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Appeal to misplaced authority

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Someone claims a certain conclusion is true because someone else, who is not an authority on the subject, says its true

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Bandwagon (Majority of people with support)

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Trying to prove a conclusion based on the argument that many or most other believe its true

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4
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Red Herring

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Ignoring the question at hand and adding irrelevant information

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5
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Begging the question (circular reasoning)

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Providing a premise that is also your conclusion
-re wording your idea without adding new logic

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6
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False Dilemma

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Assuming there are only 2 choices/outcomes when there are actually several others

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7
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Hasting generalization

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Making a claim about a large population using a small unrepresentative sample

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8
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False Cause

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Incorrectly assuming one event causes another

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