Reasoning
This type of reasoning, exemplified by a Drake commercial, focuses on the sound or style of presentation, rather than the morality or logic of content.
What is Sophistic reasoning?
Two words that have opposite definitions
What are Antonyms.
"Put that stuff over by that other thing" is an example of what?
What is Vagueness?
Someone with expertise or experience in a given topic.
What is an Authority?
The fallacy that Calvin fell prey to on Fathers' day
What is Cliched thinking?
This type of reasoning moves from specific claims to broad claims.
What is inductive reasoning?
The larger, overarching category to which a word belongs.
What is Genus?
This fallacy occurs when a word has multiple definitions.
What is Equivocation?
A pattern or rule with an exception.
What is an Anomaly?
All of a sudden everyone is wearing baggy jeans, so they must be cool. I'll go buy some!
What is Bandwagon?
This type of reasoning focuses on the content and sound logic within an argument, rather than the presentation.
What is Aristotelian reasoning?
A declarative statement that can be proven true or false
What is a Thesis?
This Idol occurs when two people do not define their terms and operate under different understandings of a given definition.
What is Idol of the Marketplace?
Another word for a counter argument.
What is a Refutation?
The fallacy exemplified by Jennifer Anniston telling us that Aveeno will give us a natural glow.
What is Etymology?
This fallacy occurs when we understand something differently than it was meant to be understood, often as a result of vagueness or ambiguity.
What is Amphiboly?
A decision that sets a pattern or principle that a court adopts when deciding later cases with similar issues.
What is a Legal Precedent?
A fallacy to watch out for when it comes to quotes or a retelling of information
What is the Fallacy of Accent?
Aristotle's definition of Rhetoric:
"In any ________ ____________ the available ________ _______________ ____________"
What is
"In any given situation, the available means of persuasion."
This type of definition describes how something occurs or happens.
What is a Procedural or Operational definition?
This idol that deals with stepping outside of our biases into reality was an allegory originally written by ______.
Who is Plato?
The art of science of interpreting scripture.
What is Hermeneutics?
This fallacy also occurs in the Idol of the Tribe
What is Hasty Generalization?