Persuasive Fallacies Chp 17

Slippery Slope

Slippery Slope

________- exaggerates the consequences of an action, usually to frighten readers.

Polarization

________- exaggerates positions and groups by representing them as extreme and divisive.

Strawman

________- refutes a persons actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position.

Bandwagon

________- ‘ everyone supposedly thinks or does something, it must be right.

Appeal

________ to Pity (or sympathy)- creating a "guilt trip; "the reader is persuaded to agree by sympathy.

Non

________ sequitur- ‘ it does not follow- connecting two topics that dont have any connection based of assumptions.

Hasty Generalization

________- is an argument that draws interference from insufficient evidence.

fallacy

A(n) ________ is basically an error in judgment or reasoning.

Pharmaceutical companies

________ have the moral responsibility not to test their products on animals.

Inductive Reasoning

________: If Socrates is a man and all men are mortal, then Socrates must be mortal as well.

false dilemma

The "Either Or "Fallacy is also known as the ________ fallacy.

Deductive Reasoning

________: I was bit by a German Shepherd when I was young, therefore most German Shepherds must be bitter.