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| 14737102369 | Logical Fallacies | potential vulnerabilities or weaknesses in an argument | 0 | |
| 14737102370 | Red Herring | When a writer raises an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue | 1 | |
| 14737155601 | Ad Hominem Fall | Switching the argument from issue to character of the other speaker | 2 | |
| 14737155602 | Faulty analogy | two incomparable things susceptible to the change | 3 | |
| 14737155603 | straw man fallacy | when a speaker ignores the actual position of an opponent and substitutes it with a distorted and exaggerated position | 4 | |
| 14737155604 | either/or fallacy (false dilemma) | the speaker presents two extreme options as the only possible choices (inaccurate evidence) | 5 | |
| 14737155605 | Hasty Generalization | not enough evidence to support a particular conclusion | 6 | |
| 14737155606 | circular reasoning | repeating the claim as a way to provide evidence, resulting in no evidence at all | 7 | |
| 14737155607 | first-hand evidence | evidence based on something the writer knows; personal experience/anecdotes, observations about other people, and current events | 8 | |
| 14737155608 | second-hand evidence | evidence accessed through research, reading, and investigation; historical, expert opinion/testimony, quantitative | 9 | |
| 14737187674 | post hog ergo propter hoc | does not imply causation (no correlation) | 10 | |
| 14737187675 | appeal to false authority | no expertise to speak on an issue and is cited as an authority | 11 | |
| 14737187676 | bandwagon appeal (ad populum fallacy) | when evidence boils down to "everybody's doing it, so it must be a good thing to do" | 12 | |
| 14737245536 | counterargument | objections or opposing views | 13 | |
| 14737245537 | concession | agree that an opposing argument may be true | 14 | |
| 14737245538 | refutation | a denial of the validity of an opposing argument | 15 | |
| 14737245539 | propaganda | information used to influence an audience | 16 | |
| 14737245540 | polemic | a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something | 17 | |
| 14737245541 | connotation | a word that is used to invoke additional meaning | 18 | |
| 14737245542 | argument | a persuasive discourse, a coherent and considered movement from a claim to a conclusion | 19 | |
| 14737245543 | Rogerian argument | based on the assumption that having a full understanding of an opposing position is essential to responding to it persuasively and refuting it in a way that is accommodating rather than alienating (reach a satisfactory conclusion) | 20 | |
| 14737245544 | claim | an assertion or proposition that states the argument's main idea or position (must be arguable) | 21 | |
| 14737245545 | claims of fact | assert that something is true or not true | 22 | |
| 14737245546 | claim of value | argues that something is good or bad, right or wrong (most common type) | 23 | |
| 14737245547 | claim of policy | anytime you propose a change (the change that needs to happen) | 24 | |
| 14737245548 | open thesis | one that does not list all the points the writer intends to cover in an essay | 25 | |
| 14737245549 | counterargument thesis | a variant of the open and closed thesis, in which a summary of the counterargument, usually qualified by "although" or "but", precedes the writer's opinion | 26 | |
| 14737245550 | closed thesis | a statement of the main idea of the argument that also previews the major points the writer intends to make | 27 | |
| 14747949484 | exigence | an issue, problem, or situation that causes or prompts someone to write or speak | 28 |
