4827637072 | Assertion | a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief | 0 | |
4827646372 | Assumption | a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof | 1 | |
4827688529 | Authority | the power or right to give orders | 2 | |
4827691585 | Counterargument | an argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory | 3 | |
4827724596 | Occasion | an event or situation that catches the writer's attention and triggers a response | 4 | |
4827733953 | Polemic | a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something | 5 | |
4827738446 | Major Premise | The premise containing the major term in a syllogism | 6 | |
4827751869 | Minor Premise | The premise containing the minor term in a syllogism | 7 | |
4827764289 | Refute | prove to be wrong or false; disprove | 8 | |
4827785274 | Rhetorical Modes | describe the variety, particularly writing and speaking | 9 | |
4827847261 | Syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion | 10 | |
4827847262 | Understatement | s speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is | 11 | |
4827854938 | Ad Hoc | formed, arranged, or done for a particular purpose only | 12 | |
4827857298 | Ad Hominem | involves commenting on or against an opponent to undermine him instead of his arguments. | 13 | |
4827861825 | Begging the Question | the writer or speaker assumes the statement under examination to be true | 14 | |
4827861826 | Circular Reasoning | a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with | 15 | |
4827865207 | Either/Or Argument | allowing no equivocation; being limited in choice to two options | 16 | |
4827867089 | Hasty Generalization | drawing a conclusion based on a small sample size, rather than looking at statistics that are much more in line with the average situation | 17 | |
4827868645 | Non sequitur Argument | it can be when what is presented as evidence or reason is irrelevant or adds very little support to the conclusion | 18 | |
4827873454 | Post Hoc Argument | relating to or being the fallacy of arguing from temporal sequence to a causal relation | 19 | |
4827879901 | Straw-man Argument | giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting another argument | 20 |
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