AP Vocabulary Word Scramble
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| non sequitur | an inference that does not follow from the premises; a fallacy, a statement (as a response) that does not follow logically from or is not clearly related to anything previously said. |
| red herring | something that distracts attention from the real issue (comes from the practice of drawing a red herring-a smoked fish-across a trail to confuse hunting dogs). |
| post hoc | a situation in which an assumption is made that because the first event preceded the second event, it must mean the first event caused the later one. |
| straw man | 1. a weak or imaginary opposition (as an argument or adversary) set up only to be easily confuted. |
| ad hominem | an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made; an appeal to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect. |
| fallacy | deceptive appearance, deception; a false or mistaken idea; an often plausible argument using false or invalid inference |
| begging the question | fallacy in which the conclusion of an argument is implicitly or explicitly assumed in one of the premises: the argument fails to prove anything because it takes for granted what it is supposed to prove. |
| false dilemma | fallacy that occurs when a writer builds an argument upon the assumption that there are only two choices or possible outcomes when actually there are several. |
| hasty generalization | the mistaken use of inductive reasoning when there are too few samples to prove a point. |
| stacking the deck | gaining favor or agreement by ignoring examples that disprove the point, and listing only those examples that support one's case. |
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