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Fact vs Opinion
Pathos
Fact: Pencils are made of wood.
Opinion: Apples are better than oranges in every way.
Putting the audience into a certain frame of mind.
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Ethos
Personal character of the speaker
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Syllogism with a missing premise:
A syllogism with a missing premise is also called a "enthymeme"
Disjunctive syllogism
Premise 1: Either A or B
Premise 2: Not A
Conclusion: Therefore B
Slippery Slope
A progress or series of events that is hard to stop or control once it has begun, and that usually leads to worse or more difficult things.
Straw Man
A weak or imaginary argument or opponent that is set up to be easily defeated.
Valid and invalid syllogisms
Syllogisms
Hasty Generalization
A syllogism is a set of three claims.
Invalid: If all dinosaurs are blue
and if I am blue
then I am a dinosaur.
Valid: If all men are mortal
and if Socrates is a man
then Socrates is mortal.
A comment about a group, even though you've only seen a few members of it.
Logos
False dilemma
An argument that presents something as A or B when there is a C option.
Proof provided by the words of the speech itself.
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Bibliography
False analogy
- "Enthymeme." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2014.
- "Disjunctive Syllogism." { Philosophy Index }. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Dec. 2014.
- "Enthymeme Examples." - Examples Of Enthymeme. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2014.
- "Department of Philosophy." False Dilemma : : Texas State University. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2014.
- "The Logical Fallacies: Hasty Generalization." The Logical Fallacies: Hasty Generalization. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2014.
- "Fallacy: Straw Man." Fallacy: Straw Man. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Dec. 2014.
To say there is a similarity between two things when there is not.
This soap is like a dream, it lifts you up to spiritual levels.
Appeal to Authority
An argument that appears to be true because of the speaker or what the speaker is or dose, but it is not true.
Logical Fallacies
Ad Hominem
Ad Hominem is the attack on the speaker.
Claims
Comparative claims:
A statement that can be true or false.
A claim based on a comparison.