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Logical Fallacies Quick Review
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Philosophy
Undergraduate 1
03/30/2011

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Arguer threatens reader/listener.
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Ad Bocculum
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Arguer elicits pity from the reader/listener.
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Appeal to Pity
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Argue arouses mob mentality.
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Ad Populum (Direct)
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Arguer appeals to the reader/listener's desire for love, security, respect, etc.
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Ad Populum (Indirect)
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Arguer verbally abuses other arguer.
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Ad Hominem (Abusive)
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Arguer presents other arguer as predisposed to argue this way.
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Ad Hominem (Circumstantial)
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Arguer presents other as hypocrite.
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Ad Hominem (Tu Quoque)
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General rule is applied to specific case that it was not intended to cover.
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Accident
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Arguer distorts opponent's argument and then attacks the distorted argument.
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Straw Man
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Arguer draws conclusion different from that supported by premises.
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Missing the Point
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Arguer leads reader/listener off track.
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Red Herring
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Arguer cites untrustworthy authority.
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Appeal to Unqualified Authority
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Premises report that nothing is known or proved, and then a conclusion is drawn.
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Appeal to Ignorance
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Conclusion is drawn from an atypical sample.
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Hasty Generalization
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Conclusion depends on nonexistent or minor causal connection.
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False Cause
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Conclusion depends on unlikely chain reaction
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Slippery Slope
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Conclusion depends on defective analogy.
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Weak Analogy
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Arguer creates the illusion that inadequate premises are adequate by leaving out a key premise, by restating the conclusion as premise, or by reasoning in a circle.
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Begging the Question
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Multiple questions are concealed in a single question
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Complex Question
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An Either Or statement hides additional alternatives.
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False Dichotomy
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Arguer ignores important evidence that requires a different conclusion.
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Suppressed Evidence
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Conclusion depends on a shift in meaning or a word or phrase
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Equivocation
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Conclusion depends on the wrong interpretation of a syntactically ambiguous statement.
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Amphiboly
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Attribute is wrongly transferred from parts to whole
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Composition
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Attribute is wrongly transferred from whole to parts.
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Division
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