5404430639 | Logical Fallacy | Potential vulnerabilities or weaknesses in an argument | 0 | |
5404432584 | Fallacies of Relevance | Fallacies that result from using evidence that's irrelevant to the claim | 1 | |
5404432585 | Red Herring | When a speaker skips to a new and irrelevant topic in order to avoid the topic of discussion | 2 | |
5404432586 | Ad Hominem | Diversionary tactic of switching the argument from the issue at hand to the character of the other speaker | 3 | |
5404434953 | Faulty Analogy | Analogy that is susceptible to the charge that two things are not comparable | 4 | |
5404436040 | Fallacies of Accuracy | Using evidence that is either intentionally or unintentionally inaccurate | 5 | |
5404436041 | Straw Man | Occurs when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an opponent's viewpoint | 6 | |
5404438882 | False Dilemma | The speaker presents two extreme options as the only possible choices | 7 | |
5404440387 | Fallacies of Insufficiency | When evidence is insufficient | 8 | |
5404440388 | Hasty Generalization | There is not enough evidence to support a particular conclusion | 9 | |
5404442715 | Circular Reasoning | Repeating the claim as a way to provide evidence, resulting in no evidence at all | 10 | |
5404511141 | Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc | It is incorrect to always claim that something is a cause just because it happened earlier | 11 | |
5404512672 | Appeal to False Authority | When someone who has no expertise to speak on an issue is cited as an authority | 12 | |
5404512673 | Ad Populum | When evidence boils down to "everybody's doing it, so it must be a good thing to do" | 13 |
AP Language & Composition: Fallacy Terms Flashcards
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