Rhetorical Fallacies

Question 1

Argumentum ad Populum

Answer 1

Appeal to the public. The fallacy of appealing to the popularity of an idea

Question 2

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Answer 2

Argument from Personal Incredulity - The fallacy that if you can’t imagine something happening, it couldn’t happen

Question 3

Tu quoque

Answer 3

you too - the logical fallacy in which the topic at hand is diverted by appealing to hypocrisy

Question 4

Argumentum ad Logicam

Answer 4

Argument to logic - The fallacy of assuming something is fake because the argument in support of it is false

Question 5

Cum Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

Answer 5

With this, therefore because of this - he fallacy of assuming that because X and Y are both true, that X must have caused Y

Question 6

Post Hoc ergo Propter Hoc

Answer 6

After his, therefore because of this - the logical fallacy of asssuming that becase X always happens before Y, then X causes Y

Question 7

Argumentum ad Antiquitatem

Answer 7

Argument to tradition - the argument that it has “always been done this way”

Question 8

Argumentum ad Hominem

Answer 8

Argument directed at the person - the error of attacking a person or motive instead of an argument

Question 9

Argumentum ad Ignorantiam

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Argument to ignorance - the fallacy of assuming something is true just because it hasn’t been proven false

Question 10

Argumentum ad Misericoridam

Answer 10

Argument to pity - the fallacy of distancing from the logical conclusion by appealing to human empathy

Question 11

Argumentum ad Nauseam

Answer 11

Argument of repitition - the fallacy of repeating something over and over again to establish its veracity

Question 12

Argumentum ad Verecundiam

Answer 12

Appeal to authority - the fallacy of appealing to an authority to prove a point

Question 13

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Answer 13

Appeal to Nature - The fallacy that everything natural is better than everything unnatural.