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Persuasion
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10th Grade
01/28/2013

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Fallacies

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a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief.[image]
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Slippery slope
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a dangerous and irreversible course[image]
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Appeal
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a request or reference to some person or authority for a decison, corroboration, judgment, etc.[image]
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Parallelism

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the technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form.[image]
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Bias
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Prejudice in favor or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
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Argument of fact

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a disagreement in which different views are expressed, often angrily[image]
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Sentimental appeals
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the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion.[image]
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Hasty generalizations
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Making assumptions about a whole group or range of cases based on a sample that is inadequate (usually because it is atypical or just too small).[image]
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Post hoc, ergo proctor hoc

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Assuming that because B comes after A, A caused B.[image]
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Claim
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to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due[image]
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concession
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the act of concending or yielding, as a right, a privilege, or a point or fact in an argument[image]
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faulty analogy
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a type of fallacy, and it's when you are trying to compare your topic to completely unrelated issues.[image]
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Pathos
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the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion.[image]
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Inducive logic
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Conclusion or type of reasoning whereby observation or information about a part of a
class is applied to the class as a whole.[image]
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deductive logic
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The reasoning process by which a conclusion is drawn from set of premises and contains
no more facts than these premises[image]
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Culture
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the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group [image]
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Propaganda

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Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular cause or point of view usually related to politics.  [image]
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Logical evidence

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 A flaw in logic that weakens an argument.[image]
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Empirical evidence

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describing facts that can be experienced and tested only through the senses

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Anaphora

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The use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition[image]
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Paradox
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a statement that seems to contradict itself but that turns out to have a rational meaning[image]
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anecdotal evidence
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The expression anecdotal evidence has two distinct meanings.[image]
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Ad hominem

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Arising from or appealing to the emotions and not reason or logic.[image]
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Logical fallacy

 

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A flaw in logic that weakens an argument.[image]
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Credible
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Able to be believed; convincing; reliable.[image]
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Grounds
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The solid surface of the earth.[image]
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Irony
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The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite[image]
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Euphemism

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A mild or indirect word or expression for one too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.[image]
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Media
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The main means of mass communication regarded collectively[image]
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Ethos

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In dramatic literature, the moral element that determines a character's actions, rather than
thought or emotion.[image]
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Logos
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means persuading by the use of reasoning[image]

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Refutation

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the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions[image]
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Persuasion

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The action or fact of persuading someone or of being persuaded to do or believe something.[image]
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Bandwagon

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A wagon used for carrying a band in a parade or procession.[image]
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Rhetoric

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The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing.[image]
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Proposal

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A plan or suggestion put forward for consideration or discussion by others.[image]
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Antithesis

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A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.[image]
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Litotes

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Ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary[image]
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Rebuttal

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A refutation or contradiction.[image]
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Equivocation
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a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth.[image]
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Either/or fallacy

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The logical fallacy of false dilemma involves a situation in which only two things happen. [image]
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Stocism
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The endurance of pain or hardship without a display of feelings and without complaint.
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Impatiens
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is an East African plant[image]
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Apatheia
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refers to a state of mind where one is free from emotional disturbance
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Noble
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A person of noble rank or birth.
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Honor
Definition
High respect; esteem
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