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| 7819378790 | Ad Hominem Fallacy | An argumentative strategy that attacks the character or motive of a speaker or writer. http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ad-hominem.html | 0 | |
| 7819378791 | Ad Populum/Bandwagon Fallacy | These fallacies offer as support for an argument the fact that many people already support it. http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/bandwagon.html | 1 | |
| 7819378792 | allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. The Crucible is an allegory of McCarthyism | 2 | |
| 7819378793 | Begging the Question/Circular Reasoning Fallacy | This fallacy occurs when you state your claim and then, usually after rewording it, you state it again as your reason. http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/begging-the-question.html | 3 | |
| 7819378794 | Cause/Effect | This rhetorical mode describes events and identifies or implies causal relationship to other events, people, etc. | 4 | |
| 7819378795 | Compare/Contrast | This rhetorical mode describes similarities or differences between ideas, objects, places or events. | 5 | |
| 7819378796 | Definition | This rhetorical mode introduces a subject then provides a classification of the subject. Description -- This rhetorical mode explains a topic, usually with considerable detail. | 6 | |
| 7819378797 | Division | This rhetorical mode takes a subject and analyzes its parts. | 7 | |
| 7819378798 | False Dilemma Fallacy | When only two solutions are provided for a problem, even though more than two solutions exist. http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/false-dilemma.html | 8 | |
| 7819378799 | Hasty Generalization Fallacy | A narrow conclusion based on just one or a few instances. http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/hasty-generalization.html | 9 | |
| 7819378800 | Narration | This rhetorical mode tells a story, usually based on personal experience. | 10 | |
| 7819378801 | Persuasive | This rhetorical mode attempts to convince the reader to do or believe something by making a strong claim and providing evidence for it. | 11 | |
| 7819378802 | Red Herring | An argument that distracts the reader by raising issues irrelevant to the case. It is like being given too many suspects in a murder mystery. http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/red-herring.html | 12 | |
| 7819378803 | Post hoc | (false cause) causal relationship exists simply because one event follows another in time"I had a chicken sandwich last night and then I couldn't sleep. It must have been something in the chicken sandwich that kept me up!" http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/post-hoc.html | 13 | |
| 7819378804 | Slippery Slope Fallacy | A logical fallacy that is employed when a speaker attests that some event must clearly occur as a result of another event without showing any proof that the second event is caused by the first. "If you don't study, you will certainly fail your test, and then you will flunk out of school and become a homeless person." http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/slippery-slope.html | 14 | |
| 7819408881 | Logical fallacies | common errors in reasoning that will undermine the logic of an argument. Fallacies can be either illegitimate arguments or irrelevant points, and are often identified because they lack evidence that supports their claim | 15 |
