Fallacies

a misleading or unsound argument, error in reasoning that does not originate in improper logical form.

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Rhetorical arguments in which the speaker: either claims to be an expert or relies on information provided by experts (authority), attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings (emotion), or attempts to persuade the

listener through use of deductive reasoning (logic).

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Recurrent syntactical similarity where several parts of a sentence or several sentences are

expressed alike to show that the ideas in the parts or sentences equal in importance. It

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a particular tendency or inclination, especially one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question; prejudice.

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writing that attempts to prove the validity of a point of view or an idea by presenting 

  reasoned arguments; persuasive writing is a form of argumentation 

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attempts to

affect the listener's personal feelings[image]

 informational fallacy of faulty generalization by reaching an inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence.

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"after this, therefore because of this", is a logical fallacy that states "Since that event followed this one, that event must have been caused by this one." It is often shortened to simply post hoc.

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