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| faulty sentence structure |
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| old tradition or idea therefore good |
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| FEAR! You MUST do this or... |
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| attacking speaker and not subject |
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| guilty until proven innocent; innocent until proven guilty |
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| argumentum ad misericordiam |
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| repetition asserting truth of an idea |
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| appeal to the popular belief |
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| argumentum ad verecundiam |
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| assuming the point is true and not proving it |
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| bifurfication/false dilemma |
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| black and white fallacy; 2 choices ONLY |
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| because this is true, this is true too |
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| comparing two unlike things |
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| red herring/ignoratio elenchi |
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| supposed to prove one thing only proving something else |
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| demand for a simple answer to a complex question |
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| conclusion that has nothing to do with subject |
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| if this happens, then this will happen, and if this happens, this will happen... |
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| knocking down ones arguement, disproving it, then concluding that is is disproved |
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| no attempt to deal with the real topic; avoids real subject |
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