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Language - English
9th Grade
01/28/2013

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Fallacies
Definition
a wrong belief
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Slippery slope
Definition
an irreversible course
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Appeal
Definition
a request for aid, support, sympathy, etc.
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Parallelism
Definition
repetition for effect
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Bias
Definition
a unfair preference 
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Argument of fact
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Sentimental Appeals
Definition
using an emotional response instead of real facts
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Hasty Generalizations 
Definition
when someone starts making presumptions quickly
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Post hoc, ergo proctor hoc
Definition
because of this, this other thing happened
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Claim
Definition
to say something is yours
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Concession
Definition
to yield or delay doing something
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Faulty Analogy
Definition
an analogy that has flaws in it
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Pathos
Definition
something that makes people feel pity or be sad
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Inductive Logic
Definition
reasoning that have very detailed facts
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Deductive Logic
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logic that has no facts but presumptions
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Empirical Evidence
Definition
evidence from observations
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Logical Evidence
Definition
evidence that can be found scientifically or logically
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Anecdotal Evidence
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information based on a person's past experience
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Ad hominem
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to say things about a person's character to undermine their argument
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Culture
Definition
the characteristics of a group of people like languages, customs and other things.
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Logical Fallacy
Definition
when you are wrong in logic
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Credible
Definition
to be able to be believed by another person
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Grounds
Definition
a position in a viewpoint
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Refutation
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to dissprove someone in an argument
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Persuasion
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to get someone to believe into something or do something
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Logos
Definition
the pursuade the use of reasoning
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Bandwagon
Definition
to be appealed to popularity or why people do a particular thing
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Rhetoric
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to undue the use of exaggeration
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Propaganda
Definition
rumors that had happened on purpose to hurt one particular person
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Proposal
Definition
an offer or suggestion
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Either/or Fallacy
Definition
to give choices that one of them is a fallacy
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Antithesis
Definition
the opposite
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Litotes
Definition

using a negative word but making it good.

"Not bad at all"

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Rebuttal
Definition
to dissaprove of something
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Equivocation
Definition
using the double meaning of a word
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Ethos
Definition
convincing someone using the character of the author
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Media
Definition
ways of communication
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Euphenism
Definition
to do or say something in a nicer way
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Irony
Definition
to give an idea of something happening but the opposite happens
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Paradox

 

Definition
a statement that goes against it self
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Anaphora
Definition
the repetition of words
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