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| 7241408214 | logos | appeals to reason | 0 | |
| 7241411698 | pathos | appeals to emotions | 1 | |
| 7241416696 | ethos | appeals exerted by the character of the speaker | 2 | |
| 7241417859 | anecdote | a short account of something | 3 | |
| 7241418757 | argument by analogy | by arguing the assumption of a relationship between two dissimilar things applies, one implies the feelings, needs, or fate of one will logically apply to both | 4 | |
| 7241422433 | appeal to authority | citing a person who is qualified to give an opinion | 5 | |
| 7241423726 | cause and effect | argument that one event brings about another | 6 | |
| 7241427567 | anaphora | emphasizing words by repeating them at the beginnings of neighboring clauses | 7 | |
| 7241428470 | aphorism | a brief saying embodying a moral, a concise statement of a principle or precept given in pointed words | 8 | |
| 7241430630 | brand | a mixture of attributes, tangible and intangible, symbolized in a trademark that can create value and influence | 9 | |
| 7241441259 | syllogism | a form of reasoning in which two statements or premises are made and a logical conclusion is drawn from them; a form of deductive reasoning | 10 | |
| 7241446532 | enthymeme | a syllogism that omits the minor premise because it is assumed to be understood | 11 | |
| 7241449790 | deduction (deductive reasoning) | a form of reasoning that begins with a generalization then applies the generalization to a specific case or cases | 12 | |
| 7241453018 | induction (inductive reasoning) | a form of reasoning which works from a body of fact to the formulation of a generalization | 13 | |
| 7241456538 | red herring | a fallacy when irrelevant material is introduced to the issue being discussed | 14 | |
| 7241458580 | ad hominem | a fallacy of logic in which a person's character or motive is attacked instead of that person's argument | 15 | |
| 7241461474 | over generalization | a fallacy in which the author draws too general of a conclusion from the presented information or arguments | 16 | |
| 7241474381 | damning with faint praise | intentional use of a positive statement that has a negative implication | 17 | |
| 7241475268 | begging the question | fallacy of logical argument that assumes the reader will automatically accept an assertion without proper support | 18 | |
| 7241477581 | circular reasoning | a fallacy of logical argument that assumes as true the very thing that one is trying to prove | 19 | |
| 7241480706 | false cause and effect | a fallacy of logical argument that assumes as true the very thing that one is trying to prove | 20 | |
| 7241483899 | dogmatism | a rhetorical device in which the speaker implies that there are no arguments to be made | 21 | |
| 7241485546 | bandwagon appeal | a proposition is argued to be true because it is widely held to be true | 22 | |
| 7241487005 | argumentum ad antiquatum | asserting that something is right or good simply because it is old | 23 | |
| 7241489427 | scare tactics | a rhetorical device that appeals to horrible consequences which may or may not come to pass | 24 | |
| 7241490941 | false dilemma | a fallacy of logical argument which is committed when too few of the available alternatives are considered, and all but one are assessed and deemed impossible or unacceptable | 25 | |
| 7241494350 | appeal to false authority | citing a person who may not be qualified to give an opinion | 26 | |
| 7241496096 | slippery slope | a fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question | 27 | |
| 7241498084 | straw man | a person substitutes a distorted, exaggerated, or misrepresented version of a position and attacks that version | 28 | |
| 7241500616 | false equivalent | to make one action equal to another when they really aren't | 29 |
