4861863931 | Ad Hominem | Personal attack | 0 | |
4861864842 | Ad Hominem Tu Quoque | Concludes claim is false because 1. inconsistent with something else said or 2. inconsistent with actions | 1 | |
4861868855 | Ad Misericordiam | Highly exaggerated appeal to pity or sympathy. | 2 | |
4861871701 | Ad Populum | Opinion of majority is always valid. | 3 | |
4861872659 | Anecdotal Fallacy | Personal experience as proof of a claim. | 4 | |
4861874115 | Appeal to Authority | Uses authority as evidence when authority isn't really an authority on facts presented. | 5 | |
4861876183 | Appeal to Ignorance | Lack of proof as proof. | 6 | |
4861877427 | Appeal to Nature | Natural is better than unnatural. | 7 | |
4861878972 | Begging the Question | Presupposes truth of conclusion. | 8 | |
4861879902 | Complex or Loaded Question | Has a presumption built in, implies guilt. | 9 | |
4861885940 | Dicto Simpliciter | General rule treated as universally true. | 10 | |
4861886972 | Equivocation | Ambiguous term in more than one sense. | 11 | |
4861888733 | Fallacy of Composition | Determines something to be true of the whole because it is true of some part of the whole. | 12 | |
4861890891 | False Dialemma | Oversimplification - either-or | 13 | |
4861892778 | Genetic Fallacy | Argument judged based on its origin. | 14 | |
4861898027 | Hasty Generalization | Conclusion drawn based on a small sample size. | 15 | |
4861899484 | Moral Equivalence | Compares minor misdeeds with major atrocities. | 16 | |
4861900635 | Name Calling | Emotionally loaded terms to influence an audience. | 17 | |
4861902825 | Non Sequitur | Conclusion doesn't follow logically from what preceded it. | 18 | |
4861905096 | Post Hoc | One event cause of another just because it occurred before. | 19 | |
4861906722 | Red Herring | Observation meant to distract from the argument. | 20 | |
4861908999 | Slippery Slope | Course of action objected to on the grounds that once taken it will lead to additional actions until some undesirable consequence occurs. | 21 | |
4861911948 | Stacking the Deck | Any evidence supporting opposing arguments ignored. | 22 | |
4861913073 | Straw Man | Opponent's argument overstated or misrepresented in order to be more easily attacked. | 23 | |
4861914832 | Weak/False Analogy | Analogy too dissimilar to be effective. | 24 | |
4861915919 | No True Scotsman | Changing definition of a term to make claim true. | 25 | |
4915380626 | Claim | To say that (something) is true when some people may say it is not true. | 26 | |
4915388700 | Concession | Granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat. | 27 | |
4915395848 | Enthymeme | A syllogism in which one of the premises is implicit. | 28 | |
4915404824 | Fallacy | A wrong belief : a false or mistaken idea. | 29 | |
4915410009 | Premise | A statement or idea that is accepted as being true and that is used as the basis of an argument. | 30 | |
4915413365 | Refutation | The act or process of proving something not to be true. | 31 | |
4915420329 | Syllogism | Formed by two statements and a conclusion which must be true if the two statements are true. | 32 | |
4915505602 | Fallacy of Division | Determining something to be true of parts because it's true of the whole. | 33 |
AP Language Vocab Set 3 Flashcards
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