AP English Language: Logical Fallacies Flashcards

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