AP Language Vocab Set 3 Flashcards

4861863931	Ad Hominem	Personal attack	0
4861864842	Ad Hominem Tu Quoque	Concludes claim is false because 1. inconsistent with something else said or 2. inconsistent with actions	1
4861868855	Ad Misericordiam	Highly exaggerated appeal to pity or sympathy.	2
4861871701	Ad Populum	Opinion of majority is always valid.	3
4861872659	Anecdotal Fallacy	Personal experience as proof of a claim.	4
4861874115	Appeal to Authority	Uses authority as evidence when authority isn't really an authority on facts presented.	5
4861876183	Appeal to Ignorance	Lack of proof as proof.	6
4861877427	Appeal to Nature	Natural is better than unnatural.	7
4861878972	Begging the Question	Presupposes truth of conclusion.	8
4861879902	Complex or Loaded Question	Has a presumption built in, implies guilt.	9
4861885940	Dicto Simpliciter	General rule treated as universally true.	10
4861886972	Equivocation	Ambiguous term in more than one sense.	11
4861888733	Fallacy of Composition	Determines something to be true of the whole because it is true of some part of the whole.	12
4861890891	False Dialemma	Oversimplification - either-or	13
4861892778	Genetic Fallacy	Argument judged based on its origin.	14
4861898027	Hasty Generalization	Conclusion drawn based on a small sample size.	15
4861899484	Moral Equivalence	Compares minor misdeeds with major atrocities.	16
4861900635	Name Calling	Emotionally loaded terms to influence an audience.	17
4861902825	Non Sequitur	Conclusion doesn't follow logically from what preceded it.	18
4861905096	Post Hoc	One event cause of another just because it occurred before.	19
4861906722	Red Herring	Observation meant to distract from the argument.	20
4861908999	Slippery Slope	Course of action objected to on the grounds that once taken it will lead to additional actions until some undesirable consequence occurs.	21
4861911948	Stacking the Deck	Any evidence supporting opposing arguments ignored.	22
4861913073	Straw Man	Opponent's argument overstated or misrepresented in order to be more easily attacked.	23
4861914832	Weak/False Analogy	Analogy too dissimilar to be effective.	24
4861915919	No True Scotsman	Changing definition of a term to make claim true.	25
4915380626	Claim	To say that (something) is true when some people may say it is not true.	26
4915388700	Concession	Granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat.	27
4915395848	Enthymeme	A syllogism in which one of the premises is implicit.	28
4915404824	Fallacy	A wrong belief : a false or mistaken idea.	29
4915410009	Premise	A statement or idea that is accepted as being true and that is used as the basis of an argument.	30
4915413365	Refutation	The act or process of proving something not to be true.	31
4915420329	Syllogism	Formed by two statements and a conclusion which must be true if the two statements are true.	32
4915505602	Fallacy of Division	Determining something to be true of parts because it's true of the whole.	33