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Red Herrings Flashcards

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Appeal to Ignorance

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Tries to make you disprove the argument

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Irrelevant Goals

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Measures a plan according to things it wasn’t designed to do

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Irrelevant Thesis

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Makes a case for the wrong point

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Straw Man Fallacy

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Exaggerates or unfairly presents an opponent’s beliefs

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