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| a warrant based on the credibility or trustworthiness of the source. |
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| a warrant based on beliefs about the reliability of factual evidence. |
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| a type of warrant based on the needs and values of an audience. |
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| a comparison in which a thing is inferred to be similar to another thing in a certain way because it is similar to the thing in other ways. |
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| "a warrant based on shared characteristics and circumstances of two or more things or events; an analogy is a type of comparison, but the things or events being compared in an analogy are not of the same class." |
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| reasoning by which a general statement is reached on the basis of particular examples. |
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| reasoning by which we establish that a conclusion must be true because the statements on which it is based are true |
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| reasoning that assumes one event or condition can bring about another. |
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| "disputing a view similar to, but not the same as, that of the arguer's opponent" |
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| """it does not follow""; using irrelevant proof to buttress a claim" |
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| """against the man""; attacking the arguer rather than the argument or issue." |
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| "the arguer proves his conclusion while assuming it to already be true. The premise for his argument is based on the truth of his conclusion. In other words, the argument assumes to be true what it is supposed to be proving." |
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| "mistakenly inferring that because one event follows another they have a causal relation; from post hoc ergo propter hoc (""after this, therefore because of this""); also called ""doubtful cause.""" |
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| """to the people""; playing on the prejudices of the audience." |
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