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2nd 9 Weeks (Set 2)
Test Friday December 6, 2019
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ad hominem | Attacking others as a person instead of their positions or ideas |
| Ad populum | appealing to popular claim |
| Bandwagon | the more popular and means to go with everyone else |
| The Fallacy Fallacy | everything in the argument is wrong due to one thing |
| Non sequitur | a jump in logic that does not make sense |
| Post hoc | looks like things are related, but not |
| Red herring | distract or mislead a person in an argument |
| Slippery slope | snowball effect, used mostly for arguments for gay marriages |
| Straw man | twist the other persons words to make it easier to attack |
| Tu quoque | is a fallacy that intends to discredit the opponent's argument by asserting the opponent's failure |