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| a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief.[image] |
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| a dangerous and irreversible course[image] |
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a request or reference to some person or authority for a decison, corroboration, judgment, etc.[image]
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the technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form.[image] |
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Prejudice in favor or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
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| a disagreement in which different views are expressed, often angrily[image] |
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the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion.[image] |
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| Making assumptions about a whole group or range of cases based on a sample that is inadequate (usually because it is atypical or just too small).[image] |
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| Assuming that because B comes after A, A caused B.[image] |
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| to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due[image] |
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| the act of concending or yielding, as a right, a privilege, or a point or fact in an argument[image] |
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| a type of fallacy, and it's when you are trying to compare your topic to completely unrelated issues.[image] |
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| the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion.[image] |
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Conclusion or type of reasoning whereby observation or information about a part of a
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The reasoning process by which a conclusion is drawn from set of premises and contains
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| the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group [image] |
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Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular cause or point of view usually related to politics. [image] |
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| A flaw in logic that weakens an argument.[image] |
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describing facts that can be experienced and tested only through the senses
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| The use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition[image] |
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| a statement that seems to contradict itself but that turns out to have a rational meaning[image] |
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| The expression anecdotal evidence has two distinct meanings.[image] |
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| Arising from or appealing to the emotions and not reason or logic.[image] |
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A flaw in logic that weakens an argument.[image] |
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Able to be believed; convincing; reliable.[image] |
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| The solid surface of the earth.[image] |
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| The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite[image] |
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| A mild or indirect word or expression for one too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.[image] |
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| The main means of mass communication regarded collectively[image] |
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In dramatic literature, the moral element that determines a character's actions, rather than
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means persuading by the use of reasoning[image] |
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| the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions[image] |
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| The action or fact of persuading someone or of being persuaded to do or believe something.[image] |
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| A wagon used for carrying a band in a parade or procession.[image] |
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| The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing.[image] |
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| A plan or suggestion put forward for consideration or discussion by others.[image] |
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| A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.[image] |
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| Ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary[image] |
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| A refutation or contradiction.[image] |
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| a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth.[image] |
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| The logical fallacy of false dilemma involves a situation in which only two things happen. [image] |
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| The endurance of pain or hardship without a display of feelings and without complaint. |
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| is an East African plant[image] |
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| refers to a state of mind where one is free from emotional disturbance |
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| A person of noble rank or birth. |
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