My roomate said her Bio hard, and the one I am in is hard, too. All Bio classes must be hard!
What is Generalizations
100
Making assumptions about a whole group or range of cases based on a sample that is inadequate.
What is generalizations
100
Arguer sets up the situation so it looks like there are only two choices. The arguer eliminates one of the choices, so it seems you are left with one option that the arguer wants us to choose anyway.
What is False Dichotomy
100
2 elements of an argument
What is Premise and Conclusion
100
Attempts to persuaded through the way in which it appeals not to our sense of logic and validity but our emotions.
What is Rhetoric
200
My friend is always telling me not to talk on my cell phone while I am driving, but why should I listen to him? He is always taking calls when driving!
What is Tu quogue
200
Latin word for "post hoc, ergo propter hoc," which translates as " after this, therefore because of this
What is Post hoc (false cause)
200
Of course the Gov't must crack down on identity theft after all, that is what most reasonable law abiding people believe.
What is Majority Belief
200
A group of statements in which some of them are intended to Provide support for another.
What is argument
200
To persuade that goods, products or services are better, more fashionable, makes us look younger etc....
What is Visual Imagery
300
Common Practice
What is I feel like playing hooky today. It won’t hurt to play hooky, everyone does it.
300
Referring to respected sources or authorities and explaining their positions on the issues we're discussing
What is Appeal to Authority
300
A way of thinking that asserts one undesirable action will inevitably lead to a worse action, which will necessarily lead to a worst to terrible.
What is Slippery Slope
300
Tell us why or how something is the case.
What is Explanation
300
Provides evidence to support the conclusion
What is premises
400
Affirming the consequent of a conditional
What is If someone is a politician then they are wise. Collin is wise, so he is a politician.
400
Latin Name of this fallacy means "to the people". This is where the arguer takes advantage of the desire most people have to be liked and fit in with others and uses that desire to try to get the audience to accept his/her argument
What is Ad Poplum
400
Distracts us from the quality of the idea instead of who came up with the idea
What is Condemning the source of an argument/Ad hominem
400
A good argument has proper structure and........
What is true premises
400
Our idea of the world is based on what we hear, see, taste, touch and smell around us. Our responses to the world are shaped by these senses.
What is Perception
500
Denying the antecedent of a conditional
What is If someone is a Doctor then they are wise, Mark is not a Doctor, he is not wise.
500
Assuming anything legal is moral and anything moral is legal. The conception that just because something is legal it is ok.
What is Conflation of Morality & Legality
500
Most New Yorkers don't exercise their right to vote. Very few non New Yorkers don't vote. Loopsy does not vote, therefore she is probably a New Yorker
What is Base Rate
500
Since, firstly, secondly, for as, after all, assuming, in view of the fact that, follows from, as show/ indicated by, may be inferred deduced, derived from
What is key words in identifying arguments
500
Information gathered from, or generated by, observation, evidence, &/or experience.