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| 11431089666 | premise | an assumption; the basis for a conclusion |  | 0 |
| 11431117032 | assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof. |  | 1 |
| 11431171078 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. |  | 2 |
| 11431188320 | deduction | reasoning from general to specific .true facts |  | 3 |
| 11431214976 | Induction | reasoning from specific to general. to make a prediction of something you already know. | 4 | |
| 11567966832 | bandwagon argument | arguing for a position because of its popularity |  | 5 |
| 11567979980 | ad hominem | In an argument, this is an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas. It comes from the Latin meaning "against the man." ex: "don't listen to jim, he didnt make the football team". |  | 6 |
| 11568048108 | False Analogy | When two cases are not sufficiently parallel to lead readers to accept a claim of connection between them. | 7 | |
| 11568059953 | guilt by association fallacy | argument in which a speaker suggests that something is wrong with another speaker's claims by associating those claims with someone the audience finds objectionable; also called the bad company fallacy ex:"no one goes to the game because the cheerleaders are not any good". |  | 8 |
| 11568154255 | Slippery Slope | A fallacy that assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that cannot be prevented ex: Legalized abortion puts us only a step away from legalizing the murder of anyone we deem undesirable or inconvenient. |  | 9 |
| 11568181774 | circular reasoning | a fallacy in which the writer repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence |  | 10 |
| 11568212144 | Hasty Generalization | A fallacy in which a faulty conclusion is reached because of inadequate evidence. | 11 | |
| 11568240199 | Bandwagon | A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular, it is therefore good, correct, or desirable. | 12 | |
| 11568276735 | Straw Man | A fallacy that occurs when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an idea. ex:People who oppose mandatory sentencing want convicted rapists and killers to get off scot-free. | 13 | |
| 11568285544 | ad hominem | a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute ex:We shouldn't listen to Professor Smith's argument about affirmative action. The man is a convicted dog-beater! | 14 | |
| 11568291537 | false comparison | a comparison of unlike things ex:The government being like a business. The president is like a CEO. Therefore, the president's chief concern should be the bottom line. | 15 |
