Flawed Arguments (A)

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Ad Hominem

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Rejecting someone's argument based on a person's habits, personality, morals, or character.

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Red Herring

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Introducing an irrelevant topic to distract from the actual argument.

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Straw Man

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A person ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated, or misrepresented version of that position.

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Begging the Question

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An argument is assumed to be true with no evidence other than the argument itself.

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Double Standard

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Judging situations by different standards, instead of using the same standards for all.

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When we say that an author has a "motive" what do we mean?

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What they want an audience to do/want from the audience

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What Fallacy is this?

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Ad Hominem. They're attacking the speaker as a human, rather than their argument

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What Fallacy is this?

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Ad Hominem. They're attacking the speaker as a human, rather than their argument

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What Fallacy is this?

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Straw Man. The opponent is redirecting the discussion

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What Fallacy is this?

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Double standard. Even though both people are doing the same thing, it's negative for only 1 of them