AP English Language: Logical Fallacies Flashcards
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6126926451 | Equivocation | When one idea is unequally used twice. (Love, joy, patience...) | 0 | |
6126926452 | Hasty Generalization | Making a faulty assumption based on a few incidents | 1 | |
6126926453 | Red Herrings | It takes another idea similar to the argument and leads you astray. e.g Donald Trump, ever the master manipulator of the media, has conjured the red herring of birtherism to raise doubt in the minds of Iowans about now-chief contender Sen. Ted Cruz. | 2 | |
6126926454 | Non-sequitor | Does not follow a logical sequence | 3 | |
6126926455 | Slippery-slope | When there is a chain of events that has no logical reason to occur | 4 | |
6126926456 | Bandwagon Appeals | When everyone else is doing or thinking something...so we should! | 5 | |
6126926457 | Ignoring the question | When you get distracted off a question on purpose to talk about something else. | 6 | |
6126926458 | Opposing the Straw Man | Attacking the weakest part of the argument | 7 | |
6126926459 | Either-or arguments | (false dilemma); gives only two possible situations for a dilemma | 8 | |
6126926460 | False Authority | When you take an authority in one field and place him in another | 9 | |
6126926461 | Begging the Question | Circular logic; You use a claim to support a claim | 10 | |
6126926462 | Post Hoc | A faulty causal relationship: not logical result of an event. | 11 | |
6126926463 | Faulty Analogy | Using an analogy to bring two situations that don't go together. | 12 | |
6126926464 | Ad Hominem | attacking character of opponent; going after the person rather than the issue. | 13 | |
6126926465 | Tu Quoque | You're another; the actions of someone else that shouldn't affect you. Making your issue someone else's issue. | 14 | |
6126935025 | Double Talk | language that appears to be earnest and meaningful but in fact is a mixture of sense and nonsense 2 : inflated, involved, and often deliberately ambiguous language | 15 | |
6126935026 | Oversimplification | Explaining an event by relying on causal factors that are insufficient to account for the event or by overemphasizing the role of one or more of these factors. | 16 | |
6126948418 | Complex question | a fallacy in which the answer to a given question presupposes a prior answer to a prior question. Also known as (or closely related to) a loaded question, a trick question, a leading question, the fallacy of the false question, and the fallacy | 17 |