AP Language fallacies Flashcards

krods fallacies

6263344272	Ad Hominem	an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas.	0
6263344273	Argument from Authority	the conclusion rests on a statement made by some presumed authority or witness.	1
6263344274	Appeal to ignorance	Assumption that whatever cannot be proven false must be true (or vice versa).	2
6263344275	begging the question	someone assumes that parts of what the person claims to be proving are proven facts	3
6263344276	hasty generalization	drawing conclusions based on insufficient or unrepresentative evidence	4
6263344277	non sequitar	Comments or information that do not logically follow from a premise or the conclusion.	5
6263344278	false dichotomy	consideration of only the two extremes when there are one or more intermediate possibilities	6
6263344279	slippery slope	assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that cannot be prevented	7
6263344280	false casualty	refers to setting up of a cause and effect relationship when one does not exist	8
6263344281	straw man argument	consists of an oversimplification of an opponent's argument to make it easier to attack	9
6263344282	sentimental appeals	appeal to the hearts of readers/listeners so that they forget to use their minds.	10
6263344283	red herring	introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion	11
6263344284	scare tactics	using fear, panic, or prejudice to win an emotional argument	12
6263344285	bandwagon appeals	agree with a position because everyone else does	13
6263344286	dogmatism	the speaker presumes that his or her beliefs are beyond question	14
6263344287	equivocation	telling part of the truth, while deliberately hiding the entire truth	15
6263344288	faulty analogy	misleading comparison between two things	16