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Vocabulary
Note Cards for Lists 1-4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abstract Language | language expressing a quality apart from a specific aboject or event; oppsite of concrete language. |
| Ad hominem | "against the man"; attacking the arguer rather than agrument or issue |
| Ad populum | "to the people"; playing on the prejudices of the audience |
| Analogy | a comparision in which a thing is inferred to be similar to another thing in a certain way because it is similar to the thing in other ways |
| Appeal to tradition | a proposal that something should continue because it has traditionally existed or been done that way |
| Argument | a process of reasoning and advancing proof about issues on which conflicting views may be held; also, a statement or statements providing support for a claim |
| Audience | those who will hear an agrument; more generally, those to whom a communication is addressed |
| Authoritative warrant | a warrant based on the crediblity of trustworthiness of the source |
| Authority | a respectable, reliable source of evidence |
| Backing | the assurances upon which a warrant or assuption is based |
| Cause and effect | reasoning that assumes one event or condition can bring about another |
| Begging the question | making a statement that assumes that the issue being argued has already been decided |
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