Ad Fontem arguments
"I can smoke because you used to as a teenager."
What is Tu Quoque?
Appeals to a sense of elitism.
What is snob appeal?
Argument that distracts by measuring a plan according to goals it wasn't meant to achieve.
What is irrelevant goals or functions?
This argument is based on assumption that a WHOLE will share all the characteristics of its parts.
What is the fallacy of composition?
This fallacy is based on the assumption that the parts of a whole will have the same characteristics of the whole.
What is fallacy of division?
When you attack the opponent with abusive language
What is ad hominem abusive?
References bad consequences will occur
Argument that claims since a proposition cannot be disproven, it must be true.
What is appeal to ignorance?
This argument assumes the very thing one is trying to prove.
What is begging the question?
An unquestioned, widely accepted truth.
What is an axiom?
When you discount the speaker's argument because of their self-interest in the matter or because of their circumstances surrounding the issue
What is ad hominem circumstantial?
An appeal to something's age
What is chronological snobbery?
This argument distracts by introducing a related but different issue and making the case for a NEW issue, not the original one.
What is irrelevant thesis?
This fallacy is based on assumption that the correct answer is always the middle ground or a compromise between 2 extremes.
What is fallacy of moderation?
The art and science of reasoning.
What is logic?
Discount the issue due to the speaker's origin or source of the argument. Usually a group is being attacked.
What is genetic fallacy?
Appeals to emotions of the crowd
What is mob appeal?
Attempts to disprove an opponent's position by presenting it in an unfair light. They may make your issue viewpoint seem silly or foolish.
What is straw man fallacy?
This assumed that just because something is a certain way, it ought to be that way.
What is the IS-Ought fallacy?
These 3 concepts in which we organize all of the fallacies.
What is relevance, presumption and clarity?
When you make someone feel sorry with your argument
What is appeal to pity?
This fallacy attempts to frame the argument in a way that make it seem that only 2 possible options exist.
What is bifurcation or false dilemma?
You should ask this question at the very beginning of every argument.
What is the issue at hand?