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ap lang vocab 8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| non sequitur | when the author states a conclusion that doesn’t follow from one or both premises. ex: I’ve lived in this town a long time – why, my grandfather was the first mayor – so I’m against putting fluoride in the drinking water. |
| hasty generalization | author leaps to a generalization from faulty evidence. The most familiar example is the stereotype. ex: men aren’t sensitive enough to be day-care providers. |
| either/or reasoning | A logical fallacy that assumes that a reality may be divided into only two parts or extremes; assuming that a given problem has only one of two possible solutions. ex: it's either _____ or ______. |
| ad hominem | the author attacks a person’s views by attacking his or her character. ex: Mayor Burns is divorced and estranged from his family. How can we listen to his pleas for a city nursing home? |
| slippery slope | a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question. ex: "We've got to stop them from banning pornography. Next thing you know, they will be burning all the books!" |
| straw man | a person ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated version of that position. ex: "Senator says that we should not fund the attack submarine program. I disagree. I can't understand why he wants to leave us defenseless." |
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