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| is strictly defined as guile or trickery or a false or mistaken idea. | ||
| argument is any kind of fallacious argument with the facts that they have in hand. Example: OF course the writer supports tax cuts; she's rich. | ||
| tempts us to agree with the writer's assumptions based on the authority of a famous person or entity or on his or her own character (when the writers are well known. Example: It is absurd to believe that professional baseball players have used steroids because the most famous slugger of our time has repeatedly asserted that such a claim is false. | ||
| is based on the assumption that whatever has not been proven false must be true. Example: No one can prove that the Loch Ness monster does not exist; therefore the Loch Ness monster exists. | ||
| is a fallacious form of argument in which someone assumes that parts of what the person claims to be proving are proven facts. Example: The Loch Ness monster spoke to me in my dreams, so it must exist. | ||
| Sometimes a will deliberately lead you to a conclusion by providing insufficient, selective evidence. Example: Ping-pong is an extremely dangerous sport; last year, my friend got hit in the eye with a ping-pong ball and lose his vision in that eye. | ||
| is a statement that does not relate logically to what comes before it. Example: If you really want to earn a 5 on the AP English Language and Composition Exam, you wouldn't spend much time reading Isabel Allende's novels. | ||
| consists of a consideration of only the two extremes when there are one more intermediate possibilities. Example: AP Calculus BC class is impossible; either you get it or you don't. | ||
| arguments suggest dire consequences from relatively minor causes. Example: If we stop requiring men to wear coats and ties in the dining room,m pretty soon they''ll take a mile. |
