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01/28/2013

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Fallacies
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A deceptive, misleading, or false notion, or belief
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Slippery Slope
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A dangerous and irreversible course
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Appeal
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1. an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy

2. to attract

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Parallelism
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The position or relation to be parallel, or going the same way in the same order
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Bias
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A particular tendency or inclination, especially one that prevents unprejudiced considerationof a question.
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Argument of fact
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An argument that tries to establish wether something exists or not, or if something is true.
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Sentimental Appeals
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An attitude towards someone or something
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Hasty generalizations
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An informal fallacy of faulty generalization by reaching and inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence
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Post hoc, ergo proctor hoc
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After this; afterward
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Claim
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To demand by or as by virtue of right
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Concession
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The act of conceding or yielding, as a right, a privilege,or a point or fact in arguement
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Faulty analogy
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A fallacy to that consists of assuming that because two things are alike in one or more aspects, they are necessarily alike in other aspects
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Pathos
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The quality of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion
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Inductive logic
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A  kind of reasoning that constructs or evaluates general prepositions that are derived from specific examples
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Deductive logic
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The process of reasoning from one or more general statements to reach a logically certain conclusion
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Empirical evidence
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A source of knowledge acquiredby means of observation or experimentation
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Logical evidence
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A proof of a claim scientifically or reasonably verifiable
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Anecdotal evidence
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A claim of non-factual infomation based on the person's experience
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Ad hominem
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aappealing to one's prejudices,emotions, or special interests rather than to one's intellect or reason.
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Culture
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The quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
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Logical fallacy
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A fallacy in which the conclusion does not follow
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Credible
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Capable of being believed
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Grounds
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the foundation or basis in which a belief or action rests
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Refutation
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the act of refutinga statement; disproof
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Persuasion
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being convinced towards believing or doing something
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Logos
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The rational principle that governs and develops the universe
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Bandwagon
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A party, cause, movement
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Rhetoric
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The undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.
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Propaganda
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information, ideas, or rumors delibarately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.

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Proposal
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the act of offering or suggesting something for acceptance, adoption, or performance
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Either/ or fallacy
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one or the of the two fallacies
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Antithesis
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the opposite; contrast
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Litotes
Definition
understatement, especially that in which an affirmitive is expressed by the negative of its contrary
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Rebuttal
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to refute by evidence or argument
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Equivocation
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the use of equivocal or ambiguous expressions, especially in order to mislead or hedge
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Ethos
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the fundamental character of spirit of a culture
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Euphemism
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the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh or, blunt
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Irony
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the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
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Paradox
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a statement or proposition that seemssel-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possibe truth
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Anaphora
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repetition of a word or words at the beggining of tso or more successive verses, clauses or sentences
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