Rhetoric Second quarter

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Red Herring

Replaces the real issue with an irrelevant topic

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Ad Hominem

Attacks the person, dodges the argument

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Straw Man

Strikes a distorted, fake version

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Faulty Appeal to Authority

cites an unqualified ”expert”

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Appeal to the People

Mistakes “popular“ for “true“

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Slippery Slope

Predicts disaster with no evidence

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Tu Quoque

“You do it too“ dodges the criticism

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Circular Reasoning

Proves the conclusion with the conclusion

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Loaded Question

Hides an unproven assumption in the question

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Part-to-whole

true of the parts-wrongly true of the whole

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whole-to-part

true of the whole-wrongly true of the parts

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Either-or

shrinks the option down to just two

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Special pleading

grants oneself a special exemption

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Genetic Fallacy

Judge truth by origin