What is entails rational argument: it appeals to reason and persuades the audience through clear reasoning and philosophy.
100
Authority over evidence
What is a mode of argument that involves the practice of overemphasizing authority or ethos rather than focusing on the merits of evidence itself.
100
Argument from authority
What is an authors authority based on an overinflated or fallacious suggestion of expertise?
200
Ethos
What is an appeal to an authority or character.
200
Red herring
What is employing unrelated information in order to distract the audiences attention from the issue at hand?
200
Equivocation
What is a fallacy the uses ambiguous terminology to mislead the audience or confuse the issue at hand?
300
Kairos
What is attention to the right time and place for an argument.
300
Begging the question
What is an argument that uses circular logic as evidence for itself.
300
False analogy
What is claiming to things resemble each other when they actually do not?
400
Doxa
What is to appeal to the popular opinion or belief.
400
Stacking the evidence
What is an argument that presents one side of an issue?
400
Ad hominem
What is a strategy to persuade by reducing the credibility of opposing positions through attacks on a persons character?
500
Pathos
What is the "pathetic appeal", refers to an appeal to the emotions.
500
Either-or argument
What is over simplification of a complicated issue?
500
Straw man
What is a fallacy where the writer sets up a fake or distorted representation of a counter argument so as to have something to easily argue against and to present the writers own position in a more favorable light.