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| a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief |
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| a dangerous and irreversible course |
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| an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, |
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| The technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form. |
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| a particular tendency or inclination, especially one that preventsunprejudiced consideration of a question; |
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| Whether something exist or not; Whether claims made about something are true. |
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| Use emotion to distract the audience from the facts. |
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| is an informal fallacy of faulty generalization by reaching an inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence. |
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| Post hoc, ergo proctor hoc |
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| after this, therefore because of this |
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| to demand by or as by virtue of a right; |
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| the act of conceding or yielding, as a right, a privilege, or apoint or fact in an argument |
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| This fallacy consists in assuming that because two things are alike in one or more respects, they are necessarily alike in some other respect. |
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| the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature,music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feelingof pity or compassion. |
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| In the process of induction, you begin with some data, and then determine what general conclusions can logically be derived from your data |
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| In the process of deduction, you begin with some statements, called 'premises', that are assumed to be true, you then determine what else would have to be true if the premises are true |
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| is proving by facts and clear rationale. |
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| is information that justifies a belief in the truth or falsity of an empirical claim |
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| is a kind of reasoning that constructs or evaluates general propositions that are derived from specific examples. |
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| Principals based on facts |
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| Experience based on knowledge |
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| Latin for: to the man. When a claim or arguement is rejected because of some irrelevant fact. |
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| Quality of a person or society |
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| A flaw in a an arguement that weakens it. |
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| Refutation (Counterargument) |
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| Other side (counter) of the arguement. |
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| Convincing someone in an arguement. |
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| Rumor spread deliberately spread to help or harm someone. |
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| When one gives only two options. |
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| Evading a statement or question. |
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| Word or phrase that stands for another. |
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| Statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true. |
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| Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a successive phrase or clauses. |
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| A meaning opposite the word. |
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| Persuasive effect on the audience. |
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