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| 11018738117 | fact | a statement that can be proven | 0 | |
| 11018741997 | opinion | A personal view, attitude, or appraisal. | 1 | |
| 11018741998 | Ethos | credibility | 2 | |
| 11018751216 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 3 | |
| 11018751218 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 4 | |
| 11018754908 | warrant | Evidence preceding the claim | 5 | |
| 11018765646 | claim | the writer's position on an issue or problem | 6 | |
| 11018772533 | inductive reasoning | A type of logic in which generalizations are based on a large number of specific observations. | 7 | |
| 11018777191 | inductive leap | Reaching a reasonable conclusion from a small amount of information | 8 | |
| 11018797435 | deductive reasoning | reasoning in which a conclusion is reached by stating a general principle and then applying that principle to a specific case (The sun rises every morning; therefore, the sun will rise on Tuesday morning.) | 9 | |
| 11018804316 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 10 | |
| 11018808244 | ethymeme | a partial syllogism based on the probable with a missing premise | 11 | |
| 11018812190 | nonsequitur | a statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before | 12 | |
| 11018815886 | ad hominem | a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute | 13 | |
| 11018822334 | appeal to tradition | a fallacy which assumes that something old is automatically better than something new | 14 | |
| 11018826218 | Bandwagon | A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular, it is therefore good, correct, or desirable. | 15 | |
| 11018836737 | begging the question | A fallacy in which a claim is based on evidence or support that is in doubt. | 16 | |
| 11018842276 | Equivocation | the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication | 17 | |
| 11018852683 | False Analogy | When two cases are not sufficiently parallel to lead readers to accept a claim of connection between them. | 18 | |
| 11018852685 | False Authority | A fallacy that offers the speaker/writer's authority as the sole reason for believing a claim | 19 | |
| 11018860903 | False Cause | a fallacy in which a speaker mistakenly assumes that because one event follows another, the first event is the cause of the second | 20 | |
| 11018864794 | False Dilemma | A fallacy of oversimplification that offers a limited number of options (usually two) when in fact more options are available. | 21 | |
| 11018864795 | Guilt by Association | calls someone's character into question by examining the character of that person's associates | 22 | |
| 11018872817 | Hasty Generalization | A fallacy in which a faulty conclusion is reached because of inadequate evidence. | 23 | |
| 11018879384 | Oversimplification | When a writer obscures or denies the complexity of the issues in an argument | 24 | |
| 11018882823 | Red Herring | A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion | 25 | |
| 11018882824 | Slippery Slope | A fallacy that assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that cannot be prevented | 26 | |
| 11018888679 | Strawman | Misrepresenting someone's argument to make it easier to attack | 27 |
