10902776554 | Ad Hominem | Attacking a person or their character, rather than their argument or reasoning | 0 | |
10902793571 | Ad Populum | Attempting to swap popular support by appealing to sentimental weakness, rather than facts | 1 | |
10902804874 | Appeal to Authority | Arguing that since an authority (not necessarily an expert in the matter, either) thinks something, it must be true | 2 | |
10902845699 | Appeal to Ignorance | Asserting a clam is true because it has not yet been proven false | 3 | |
10902853175 | Appeal to Fear | Attempting to create support for an idea using deception and propaganda in attempts to increase fear and prejudice towards the competition | 4 | |
10902882823 | Bandwagon | Claiming something is true because most people believe it | 5 | |
10902895578 | Black/White; Either/Or | Suggesting that only two options exist when, in reality, there are several options | 6 | |
10902911289 | Circular Reasoning | Using evidence that hasn't been proven in order to prove something else, then using that something else to prove the original claim | 7 | |
10902934707 | Faulty Analogy | Assuming that because two things are alike in one respect, they are alike in all respects | 8 | |
10902943975 | Hasty Generalization | Using small numbers or percentages to represent a whole | 9 | |
10902959361 | Moral Equivalence | Arguing that serious wrongdoings are the same as minor offenses; comparison that doesn't work because one problem/decision is far greater or worse than others | 10 | |
10902994024 | Non Sequitur | Making a conclusion that doesn't follow based on the evidence provided | 11 | |
10903005363 | Red Herring | Diverting attention from something (usually something the arguer wants to avoid) by changing the subject to something else | 12 | |
10903020511 | Slippery Slope | Arguing that if one thing happens, a series of bad things will follow | 13 | |
10903031698 | Straw Man | Misrepresenting a scenario, then attacking that to make the opponent look bad | 14 |
AP Language and Literature- Fallacies Flashcards
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