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Logical Falacies
AP Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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red herring | skips to a new irrelevant issue to distract from the real issue |
ad hominem | attack on character rather than relevant issues |
faulty analogy | comparing two things that are not comparable |
straw man | oversimplifying/exaggerating an opposing viewpoint |
false dilemma | speaker builds argument on assumption there's only two possible outcomes, when there are many |
hasty generalization | too few examples to prove point |
circular reasoning | continuously repeating the claim |
post hoc ergo propter hoc | assumption made that since one event occurred before the second, it caused the latter |
appeal to false authority | simliar to testimonial. when one has no authority to speak on an issue, yet is cited as an authority |