Persuasive Fallacies Chp 17

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Slippery Slope
________- exaggerates the consequences of an action, usually to frighten readers.
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Polarization
________- exaggerates positions and groups by representing them as extreme and divisive.
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Strawman
________- refutes a persons actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position.
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Bandwagon
________- ‘ everyone supposedly thinks or does something, it must be right.
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Appeal
________ to Pity (or sympathy)- creating a "guilt trip; "the reader is persuaded to agree by sympathy.
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Non
________ sequitur- ‘ it does not follow- connecting two topics that dont have any connection based of assumptions.
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Hasty Generalization
________- is an argument that draws interference from insufficient evidence.
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fallacy
A(n) ________ is basically an error in judgment or reasoning.
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Pharmaceutical companies
________ have the moral responsibility not to test their products on animals.
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Inductive Reasoning
________: If Socrates is a man and all men are mortal, then Socrates must be mortal as well.
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false dilemma
The "Either Or "Fallacy is also known as the ________ fallacy.
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Deductive Reasoning
________: I was bit by a German Shepherd when I was young, therefore most German Shepherds must be bitter.