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Logical fallacies
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Flaw in reasoning
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Deductive Fallacies
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Water-tight-true premises= true conclusion
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Inductive Fallacies
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Not water tight-true premises = false conclusion
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Ad populem
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(to the people) - emotional appeal that speaks to positive or negative concepts rather than the real issue.
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Ad hominem
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Attack on a person's character rather than focusing on the person's qualifications and/or credentials.
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Red herring
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Diversity tactic that avoids key issues by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them.
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Moral Equivalence
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Compares minor misdeeds with major atrocities.
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Strawman
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Oversimplifies an opponents viewpoint then attacks that hollow argument.
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Either/or
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Gives a person only two choices thus causing a false dilemma.
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Hasty generalization
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Conclusion is based on faulty, biased, or insufficient evidence.
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Post Hoc ergo propler
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(before this therefore because of this)A happened before B, therefore A caused B.
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Appeal to authority
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Not expert in the fieldexperts don't agree
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Slippery slope
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A series of increasingly unacceptable consenquence is drawn.
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Circular Definition
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Includes the term being defined in the definition.
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Popularity
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A proposition is argued to be true because it ts widely held to be true.
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