UTC 5 Review

The idea that a person’s vested interests make their argument wrong

• Appeal to Authority

• Attacking the Motive

• Appeal to Ignorance

• Bandwagon

• Hasty Generalization

When an argument is built on emotion rather than logic

• Appeal to Pity

• Hasty Generalization

• Slippery Slope

• Weak Analogy

The idea that a person should accept a claim based on its popularity

• Slippery Slope

• Fallacy of Division

• Equivocation

• Bandwagon

• Appeal to Ignorance

When the meaning of a word changes so as to strengthen the argument

• Fallacy of Division

• Appeal to Ignorance

• Equivocation

• Weak Analogy

• Appeal to Authority

When the strength of an argument is based on an illegitimate authority

• Appeal to Authority

• Appeal to Ignorance

• Appeal to Pity

• Attacking the Motive

• Bandwagon

The idea that is false because it has not been proven true

• Appeal to Authority

• Appeal to Ignorance

• Appeal to Pity

• Attacking the Motive

• Bandwagon

When a certain quality of a part is assumed to be a quality of the whole

• Slippery Slope

• Fallacy of Division

• Hasty Generalization

• Weak Analogy

The idea that an argument can be judged based on is consequences

• Slippery Slope

• Weak Analogy

• Equivocation

• Bandwagon

• Attacking the Motive

When a quality of the whole is assumed to be a quality of its parts

• Hasty Generalization

• Appeal to Pity

• Weak Analogy

• Fallacy of Division

• Appeal to Pity

When a comparison is made between things that are not comparable

• Appeal to Pity

• Weak Analogy

• Appeal to Authority

• Appeal to Ignorance

• Appeal to Pity