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| A deceptive, misleading, or false notion, or belief |
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| A dangerous and irreversible course |
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1. an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy
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| The position or relation to be parallel, or going the same way in the same order |
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| A particular tendency or inclination, especially one that prevents unprejudiced considerationof a question. |
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| An argument that tries to establish wether something exists or not, or if something is true. |
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| An attitude towards someone or something |
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| An informal fallacy of faulty generalization by reaching and inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence |
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| Post hoc, ergo proctor hoc |
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| To demand by or as by virtue of right |
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| The act of conceding or yielding, as a right, a privilege,or a point or fact in arguement |
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| A fallacy to that consists of assuming that because two things are alike in one or more aspects, they are necessarily alike in other aspects |
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| The quality of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion |
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| A kind of reasoning that constructs or evaluates general prepositions that are derived from specific examples |
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| The process of reasoning from one or more general statements to reach a logically certain conclusion |
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| A source of knowledge acquiredby means of observation or experimentation |
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| A proof of a claim scientifically or reasonably verifiable |
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| A claim of non-factual infomation based on the person's experience |
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| aappealing to one's prejudices,emotions, or special interests rather than to one's intellect or reason. |
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| The quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc. |
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| A fallacy in which the conclusion does not follow |
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| Capable of being believed |
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| the foundation or basis in which a belief or action rests |
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| the act of refutinga statement; disproof |
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| being convinced towards believing or doing something |
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| The rational principle that governs and develops the universe |
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| The undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast. |
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information, ideas, or rumors delibarately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. |
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| the act of offering or suggesting something for acceptance, adoption, or performance |
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| one or the of the two fallacies |
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| understatement, especially that in which an affirmitive is expressed by the negative of its contrary |
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| to refute by evidence or argument |
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| the use of equivocal or ambiguous expressions, especially in order to mislead or hedge |
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| the fundamental character of spirit of a culture |
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| the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh or, blunt |
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| the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning |
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| a statement or proposition that seemssel-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possibe truth |
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| repetition of a word or words at the beggining of tso or more successive verses, clauses or sentences |
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