Rhetorical fallacys

Euphemisms 

“The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.” 

False dilemma

When you present two options and say that one rejects the other, when infact there can be more options or an option where you don’t have to chose between the two, pathos become confused

Appeal to Bandwagon

Everyone smokes so it must be good - connect to logos and statistics, pathos when you don’t want to feel left out

Straw Man

Make the argument “silly” - sound dumb by oversimplifying it or making it extreame, misrepresenting, misquoting, ethos - attack credability

Appeal to fear

making auience imagining a scary future rather than provide evidence - similiar to slipperly slope

Hasty generalization

if one person in a group is bad then everyone is bad - generalizes from a sample that is too smal or too special to be representative

Ad Hominem

atacks a persons cahracter rather than what he or she is saying - diverting the discussion, you’re not a historian - why don’t you stick to your own field. by making a judgment about their intentions

Red herring

when you lead the conversation onward in an unatural way - to avoid answering a dificult question “💬 Example 2 

• Politician A: “We need to address rising healthcare costs.” 
  Politician B: “Well, what about the national debt? That’s the real problem!” “

Guilt by Association

having similar ideas to ex communist doesn’t make you a comunist