COM 131 Fallacies Word Scramble
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| 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 |
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