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Logical Fallacies.
AP language terms
Question | Answer |
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FALSE ANALOGY | error in assuming that because two things are alike in some ways, they are alike in all ways Ex. A school is not so different from a business. It needs a clear competitive strategy that will lead to profitable growth |
HASTY GENERALIZATION | unsound inductive inference based on insufficient, inadequate, unspecified evidence |
NONSEQUITUR | a statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before |
POST HOC | because one thing follows another, it is held to cause the other |
AD HOMINEM | instead of attacking an assertion, the argument attacks the person who made the assertion |