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Argumenys
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English
10th Grade
01/29/2013

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Term

Concession

 

Definition

the admitting of a point claimed in a argument

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Faulty Anology

Definition

elaborate comparison of two things that are too dissimilar

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Pathos
Definition

 means persuading by appealing to the reader's emotions

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Inductive logic
Definition

reasoning from detailed facts to general principles

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Deductive logic
Definition

 is the process of reasoning from one or more general statements (premises) to reach a logically certain conclusion.

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Emperical evidence
 
Definition

 information that is acquired by observation or experimentation

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Logical evidence
Definition

the evidence that is derived from either of this process

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Anecdotal evidence
Definition

claim of non-factual information based on a person's experience.

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Ad hominem
Definition

latin for "against the man" or "against the person.''

An Ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument. 

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culture
Definition

the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education

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