argument fallacies

scare tactics

politicisans, advertisements, and public figures peddle their ideas by fear

either/or choices

false dillemas “your either for me or against me”

slippery slope

todays tiny misstep into tomoroow’s disaster

overly sentimental

use tender emotions, highly personal

bandwagon

urge people to take the same path as others

false authority

writer offers themselves as sufficient warrant for believing a claim

dogmatism

a writer asserts a particular position as the only one concievably acceptable, imply no argument is necessary

ad hominem

attacks the person rather than claim

stack the deck

presenting only one side of the argument

hasty generalization

inference drawn from insufficient evidence; forms basis for most stereotypes

faulty causality

assumpiton that because one event or action follows another, the first causes the second

begging the question

“you c cant give me a c, i’m an a+ student”

equivaction

half truthsor arguments that give lies an honest approach

strawman

attack argues no one is making/setting up argument that is easy to known down

red herring

changes subjects abruptly or introduces an irrelevant claim to throw audience off

faulty analogy

innacurate comparisons between objects or concepts

paralipsis

gossips trope; speakers/writer say they will not talk about something, this doing the very

non sequitor

argument whose claims don’t logically connect