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| 11221657017 | CEDE/CESS | go | 0 | |
| 11221657018 | FER | bring, bear | 1 | |
| 11221660006 | PONE/POSE | place | 2 | |
| 11221667335 | SENT/SENS | feel, think | 3 | |
| 11221667336 | TRACT | draw, pull | 4 | |
| 11221674675 | VIDE/VISE | see | 5 | |
| 11221674676 | VOL | wish, want | 6 | |
| 11221678492 | AB-, ABS- | away from | 7 | |
| 11221678493 | DIS- | apart, away | 8 | |
| 11221678494 | PER- | through | 9 | |
| 11221689704 | TRANS- | across | 10 | |
| 11221689735 | ad hominem | Latin for "to the man," this fallacy refers to the specific diversionary tactic of switching the argument from the issue at hand to the character of the other speaker. If you argue that a park in your community should not be renovated because the person supporting it was arrested during a domestic dispute, then you are guilty of using an ad hominem fallacy. | 11 | |
| 11221693799 | ad populum | Latin for "to the people," this fallacy occurs when evidence used to defend an argument boils down to "everybody's doing it, so it must be a good thing to do." Example: You should vote to elect Rachel Johnson-she has a strong lead in the polls. Polling higher does not necessarily make Senator Johnson the "best" candidate; it only makes her the most popular. | 12 | |
| 11221693800 | appeal to false authority | This fallacy occurs when someone who has no credibility to speak on an issue is cited as an authority. A TV star, for instance, is not a medical expert, though pharmaceutical advertisements often use such celebrities to endorse products. Example: According to former congressional leader Ari Miller, the Himalayas have an estimated Yeti population of between 300 and 500 individuals. | 13 | |
| 11221699997 | circular reasoning | A fallacy in which the argument repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence. Example: You can't give me a C; I'm an A student. | 14 | |
| 11221699998 | faulty analogy | A fallacy that occurs when an analogy compares not comparable. For instance, to argue that we should legalize human euthanasia, since we all agree that it is humane to put terminally ill animals to sleep, ignores significant emotional and ethical differences between the ways we view humans and animals. | 15 | |
| 11221704105 | logical fallacy | Logical fallacies are potential vulnerabilities or weaknesses in an argument. They often arise from a failure to make a logical connection between the claim and the evidence used to support it. | 16 | |
| 11221706823 | post hoc ergo proter hoc | This fallacy is Latin for "after which therefore because of which," meaning that it is incorrect to always claim that something is a cause just because it happened earlier. One may loosely summarize this fallacy by saying that correlation does not imply causation. Example: We elected Johnson as president and look where it hot us: hurricanes, floods, stock market crashes. | 17 | |
| 11221706824 | straw man | A fallacy that occurs when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an idea. Example: Politician X proposes that we put astronauts on Mars in the next four years. Politician Y ridicules this proposal by saying that his opponent is looking for "little green men in outer space." | 18 |
