Red Herrings
JENNY: What's that?
BERT: An oud. It's a fretless stringed instrument from the Middle East.
JENNY: Can you play it?
BERT: Professionall oud players can make lots of money!
What is Red Herring?
YOUNG BACHELOR: Either I marry her and she drives me crazy with all her talking, or I don't marry er and I go crazy the rest of my life thinking about her.
What is "Either-Or"?
Takes a sample from a class of things, then using that to say something about that class.
What is Generalization?
Repeating a message loudly and very often in hope that we will believe it?
What is repetition?
All plumbers are brilliant. I know a plumber who can calculate the value of pi to the 289,954th digit.
What is "Hasty Generalization"
DOG BREEDER: My puppies cost $1200 each.
CUSTOMER: Could you reduce the price of your puppies to $500 for me? I really need a furry friend to love.
What is Special Pleading?
Changing the meaning of word in the middle of an argument.
What is Equivocation?
Generalization about a class based upon a small or poor sample.
What is Hasty Generalization?
An urgent need which demands immediate action.
What is Exigency?
There's no point in listening to you. Everybody knows you're just a little do-gooder.
What is Ad Hominem?
An attack on your opponent.
What is Ad Hominem?
NEIGHBOR: Why do you like to disturb the neighborhood by playing your music so loud that everybody can hear it a mile away?
What is Loaded Question?
"Ever since Mark started cozying up witht he teacher and talking really nice to her, he has been getting A's and B's on his tests in her class. It's very obvious that he is now the teacher's put. I think it's unfair!"
What is Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc?
When someone makes you fear the consequences of not doing what he wants.
What is Appeal to Fear?
Join millions of Amercians in the Freedom Club
What is Bandwagon?
Appeal to someone who has no special knowledge
What is Faulty Appeal to Authority?
When someone says that what is true of part of something must be true of the whole thing.
What is Part-to-Whole?
Comparing 2 items with each other
What is analogy?
A strategy for spreading our beliefs or ideas.
What is propaganda?
I like the Black Dogs because they're my favorite band.
What is Circular Reasoning?
BERT: I've been learning about WWII laterly. I found that America provoked Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor. I don't think that was right for us to do.
JENNY: Oh! So now you are taking the side of the Axis? You think Germany and Japan were right to do what they did?
What is straw Man?
Assumes that is we take one step,, nothing will stop us from taking a series of steps
What is Slippery Slope?
"A cloud is 90% water; a watermelon is 90% water. Therefore, since a plane can fly through a cloud, a plane can fly through a watermelon.
What is a Weak Analogy?
CONSTITUENT IN FRONT OF SENATOR: Senator, I have walked all the way from Cleveland, OH, barefoot, just to tell you not to vote for Senate Bill 254!
What is Appeal to Pity?
There is a God. Nobody has ever come up with any conclusive evidence that there isn't one.
What is Proof by Lack of Evidence?