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The fact that someone has dubious reasons for making a claim does not show that the claim is false.   show
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Any argument that tries to show that one event or state of affairs can inevitably lead to others is fallacious.   show
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A slippery-slope pattern of argument is fallacious when   show
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The fallacy of equivocation occurs whenever a word has one meaning in one premise and the same meaning in another premise or the conclusion.   show
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Good writers never combine arguments with appeals to emotion.   show
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The attempt to establish the conclusion of an argument by using that conclusion as a premise is known as   show
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Claims that come out of a "poisoned well" cannot be automatically dismissed.   show
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If we could prove anything with a lack of evidence, we could prove almost anything.   show
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The straw man fallacy is a favorite of politicians.   show
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Whether people are hypocritical regarding their claims is directly related to the truth of those claims.   show
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An argument of this form--P. Therefore, p--is called   show
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The appeal to popularity is arguing that a claim must be false because   show
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In most cases a claim should be considered true if it hasn't been shown to be false.   show
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Arguing that your doing something morally wrong is justified because someone else has done the same (or similar) thing is known as the fallacy of   show
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"Either you support the war or you are a traitor to your country. You don't support the war. So you're a traitor"--is an example of   show
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The fallacy of arguing that what is true of the parts must be true of the whole is called   show
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rhetoric should never be combined with critical thinking   show
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