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10th Grade
01/29/2013

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Concession
Definition

The action of conceding, granting, or yielding something.[image]

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Faulty analogy

Definition
assuming either that properties shared between two situations or existents will continue to be found indefinitely[image]
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Pathos

Definition
Appeal to the audience's emotions[image]
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Inductive logic

Definition

"bottom-up" logic,is a kind of reasoning that constructs or evaluates general propositions that are derived from specific examples. Inductive reasoning contrasts with deductive reasoning

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Culture

Definition
The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.

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Deductive logic

Definition

The reasoning process by which a conclusion is drawn from set of premises and contains

no more facts than these premises

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Empirical evidence
Definition

research that derives its data by means of direct observation or experiment

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Logical evidence

Definition

Logic is the art of arriving at a truth through a process of synthesizing statements or bodies of truth

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Anecdotal evidence

Definition

 two distinct meanings

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Ad hominem

Definition

Arising from or appealing to the emotions and not reason or logic.

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