Retorical Fallacies

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Anaphora

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Used the same word over and over, we will win! We will do this!

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Ad Hominem

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Arising from appealing

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Appeal to authority

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Using your authority to sway an audience

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Appeal to belief

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A piece of argument where if everyone beliefs something to be fact than it must be fact

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Appeal to common practice

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A wrong justified by claiming that lots of people do it so it’s ok

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Appeal to emotion

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An emotional appeal is used to sway the emotions of an audience to make them support the speakers arguments

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Appeal to flattery

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When a person uses excessive compliments, in an attempt to with their side

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Appeal to novelty

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The newest idea is the better

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Appeal to pity

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A distraction from the truth by using pity

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Appeal to popularity

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Most people approve of an idea therefor it must be true

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Appeal to ridicule

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A fallacy in which presets an opportunity argument as absurd ridicule, or in anyway numerous

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Appeal to spite

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A argument is made by exploiting people’s bitterness or spite towards an opposing party

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Appeal to tradation

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A thesis Is deemed true because of past traditions or facts

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Begging the question

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A premise in which the claim that a conclusion is true or assume that the conclusion is true

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Biased sample

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Drawing a conclusion about a population based on a sample that is biased, or chosen order to make it appear as if the population is average different than it actually is

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Burden of proof

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If x is unproven than that it is unproved and remains unproved until reason and evidence is provided or secured to establish the proof or higher probability of the claim being true

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Confusing cause and effect

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Events A and B regularly occur together therefor A is the cause of B

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False dillema

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Are you on my side or not

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Guiltily by association

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Someone is part of a group that a guilty person is in, they must be guilty too

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Hasty generalization

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The reaching of an inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence.

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Middle ground

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The fallacy is committed when the middle position that is assumed that the middle position between two extremes must be correct simply because it is the middle ground

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Personal attack

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A person substitutes abusive remarks for evidence when attacking another persons claims

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Poisoning the well

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Adverse information is presented adversely to target someone and disregard it then

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Post hoc

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When an A occurs before event B therefor A is the cause o B

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Questionable cause

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A casual connection is assumed without proof all to often claims to a casual connection are based on a mere correlation

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Red herring

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The basic idea is to win an argument by leading the attention away from the argument by leading attention away from the argument and to another topic

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Slippery slope

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A=z

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Spotlight

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When something is said to be true because an argument has been brought to attention

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Straw man

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When a person ignores a persons actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of the position.

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Two wrongs make a right

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It’s ok to do something wrong if they have done wrong to you, they would have done the same thing you did