AP Language & Composition: Fallacy Terms Flashcards

5404430639	Logical Fallacy	Potential vulnerabilities or weaknesses in an argument	0
5404432584	Fallacies of Relevance	Fallacies that result from using evidence that's irrelevant to the claim	1
5404432585	Red Herring	When a speaker skips to a new and irrelevant topic in order to avoid the topic of discussion	2
5404432586	Ad Hominem	Diversionary tactic of switching the argument from the issue at hand to the character of the other speaker	3
5404434953	Faulty Analogy	Analogy that is susceptible to the charge that two things are not comparable	4
5404436040	Fallacies of Accuracy	Using evidence that is either intentionally or unintentionally inaccurate	5
5404436041	Straw Man	Occurs when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an opponent's viewpoint	6
5404438882	False Dilemma	The speaker presents two extreme options as the only possible choices	7
5404440387	Fallacies of Insufficiency	When evidence is insufficient	8
5404440388	Hasty Generalization	There is not enough evidence to support a particular conclusion	9
5404442715	Circular Reasoning	Repeating the claim as a way to provide evidence, resulting in no evidence at all	10
5404511141	Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc	It is incorrect to always claim that something is a cause just because it happened earlier	11
5404512672	Appeal to False Authority	When someone who has no expertise to speak on an issue is cited as an authority	12
5404512673	Ad Populum	When evidence boils down to "everybody's doing it, so it must be a good thing to do"	13