This occurs when writers/rhetors offer themselves or other authorities as sufficient warrant for believing a claim.
What are APPEALS TO FALSE AUTHORITY?
100
Inferences drawn from insufficient (and often exaggerated) evidence.
What is a HASTY GENERALIZATION?
100
These kinds of appeals are highly personal and focus on heartwarming situation that make the audience feel guilty if they challenge the prevailing ideas/policies/proposals.
What are OVERLY SENTIMENTAL APPEALS?
200
An attempt to frighten people and exaggerate possible dangers well beyond their likelihood.
What is SCARE TACTIC?
200
This fallacy occurs when a writer asserts or assumes that his/her position is the only acceptable position.
What is DOGMATISM?
200
"You can't give me a C because I'm an A student!" Is the example the textbook gave of this kind of fallacy.
What is BEGGING THE QUESTION?
200
Documentaries are often criticized for committing this kind of fallacy.
What is STACKING THE DECK?
300
A strategy rhetors employ to oversimplify complex problems, oftentimes to obscure legitimate alternatives and in favor of the rhetor's agenda.
What is the EITHER/OR FALLACY?
300
This fallacy occurs when the writer shows only one side of an argument.
What is STACKING THE DECK?
300
Drawing the conclusion that because one event or action follows another, the first causes the second.
What is FAULTY CAUSALITY?
300
Arguments that attack the character of a person, rather than the claims h/she makes, as a way of destroying his/her credibility.
What are AD HOMINEM ARGUMENTS?
400
This fallacy over-exaggerates the consequences of a particular action, usually to frighten an audience in favor of or away from a certain belief or behavior.
What is the SLIPPERY SLOPE?
400
“This is a female issue. As a man, how can you have an opinion about this?”
This is an example of which kind of fallacy of Ethical Arguments?
What is AD HOMINEM?
400
An argument whose claims, reasons or warrants don't connect logically.
What are NON SEQUITURS?
400
A fallacy attacks arguments that no one is making in the first place, or portrays the opponent's arguments as less coherent than they are.
What is STRAW MAN?
500
These kinds of appeals urge people to follow the same path as everyone else is taking rather than to think independently and in a more nuanced fashion to solve problems.
What are BANDWAGON APPEALS?
500
The Latin meaning of Ad Hominem.
What is "TO THE MAN"?
500
The meaning of the Latin, "Hoc, ergo propter hoc."
What is "AFTER THIS, THEREFORE BECAUSE OF THIS"?
500
The attempt to change the subject so abruptly so as to introduce an irrelevant claim or fact, or to throw the reader off.