Ways Arguments Go bad List Flashcards

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Misuse of Expert Opinion

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Treating non experts as experts or using a experts opinion of their field of expertise

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Misuse of enumerative induction

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Reasoning where we arrive at a small generalization about a group of things by observing only some members of the group

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Begging the question

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Arguing in a circle

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False dilemma

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Inappropriately insisting

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Equvocation

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Arguments uses a word or two in differences

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Composition

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Assuming that what is true of the parts of the whole

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