| Question |
Answer |
| Labeling people or ideas with words or bad connotation. |
Name Calling |
| Good words that want people to accept and agree with ideas without examining evidence |
Glittering Generalities |
| Trys to win confidence and support by appearing to be a person like ourselves. |
Plain Folks Appeal |
| Only telling the people what they want to hear. |
Argumentum Ad Populum |
| Attacking the speaker, not the subject. |
Argumentum Ad Hominem |
| Urges to support an action or opinion only because it's popular. |
Bandwagon |
| Sets up a cause and effect relationship that may not be true. |
Faulty cause and effect |
| Comparisons between analogies that have no connection and nothing in common. |
False Analogy |
| Believing there is a simple yes or no answer to a complex problem. |
Two Extremes |
| Selecting only facts that support the speakers point of view, ignoring all others |
Card Stacking |
| Testimonial possibly by a non-expert. |
Testimonial |
| An argument that relies on irrelevant premises for its conclusion. |
Red Herring |
| A faulty assumption that leads to a series of unwanted events. |
Slippery Slope |
| An argument supporting a claim because it has always been done that way. |
Appeal to Tradition |
| An argument in which the conclusion is not connected to the reasoning. |
Non Sequitur |
| An argument in which and isolated instance is used to make an unwarranted general conclusion. |
Hasty Generalization |
| An argument that is stated in such a way that it has to be true, even without evidence. |
Begging The Question |
| An argument stated in only two alternatives, though more may exist. |
Either-Or Fallacy |
Mario Adkins
on 2009-04-20
BIOL3326 Forms
