Fallacies

This fallacy compares minor misdeeds with major atrocities, suggesting that both are equally immoral.

• Begging the claim

• Ad hominem

• Circular argument

• Moral equivalence

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CCSS.SL.11-12.3

This is a conclusion based on the premise that if A happens, then eventually through a series of small steps, through B, C,..., X, Y, Z will happen, too, basically equating A and Z.

• Moral equivalence

• Slippery Slope

• Straw man

• Red Herring

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CCSS.SL.11-12.3

This is a conclusion that assumes that if 'A' occurred after 'B' then 'B' must have caused 'A.'

• Slippery Slope

• Genetic Fallacy

• Circular Argument

• Post hoc ergo propter hoc

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CCSS.SL.11-12.3

CCSS.W.11-12.1B

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

This restates the argument rather than actually proving it.

• Circular Argument

• Red Herring

• Begging the claim

• Hasty Generalization

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CCSS.SL.11-12.3

CCSS.W.11-12.1B

CCSS.W.11-12.1

This is a diversionary tactic that avoids the key issues, often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them.

• Slippery Slope

• Moral equivalence

• Begging the claim

• Red Herring

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CCSS.SL.11-12.3

CCSS.W.11-12.1B

This is an attack on the character of a person rather than his or her opinions or arguments.

• Post hoc ergo propter hoc

• Ad populum

• Ad hominem

• Genetic fallacy

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CCSS.SL.11-12.3

This move oversimplifies an opponent's viewpoint and then attacks that hollow argument.

• Red Herring

• Slippery Slope

• Strawman

• Moral Equivalence

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CCSS.SL.11-12.3

CCSS.W.11-12.1B

CCSS.SL.11-12.1C

This conclusion is based on an argument that the origins of a person, idea, institute, or theory determine its character, nature, or worth.

• Straw man

• Ad populum

• Begging the claim

• Genetic fallacy

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CCSS.W.11-12.1B

CCSS.W.11-12.1

This is an appeal that presents what most people, or a group of people think, in order to persuade one to think the same way.

• Ad hominem

• Circular Argument

• Ad populum

• Red herring

The conclusion that the writer should prove is validated within the claim.

• Begging the claim

• Circular argument

• Post hoc ergo propter hoc

• Moral equivalence

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CCSS.W.11-12.1B

CCSS.W.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.W.11-12.1A