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