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an incorrect or misleading notion or opinion based on inaccurate facts or invalid reasoning.[image] |
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| a course of action that seems to lead inevitably from one action or result to another with unintended consequences[image] |
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rhetorical devices that try to get the reader or viewer to react based on logic, ethics, or emotion[image] |
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Recurrent syntactical similarity where several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed alike to show that the ideas in the parts or sentences equal in importance.[image] |
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| Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair[image] |
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| A fact or statement put forth as proof or evidence; a reason[image] |
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making a direct appeal to the emotions, esp to romantic feelings |
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a conclusion formed without evidence, often the product of an emotional reaction
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post hoc, ergo proctor hoc
"after this, therefore because of this" |
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc, Latin for "after this, therefore because of this", is a logical fallacy that states "Since that event followed this one, that event must have been caused by this one."
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To state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain
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the admitting of a point claimed in argument
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an elaborate comparison of two things that are too dissimilar
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A quality, as of an experience or a work of art, that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow.
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A statement or proposition that, despite sound reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory.
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