Logic Final
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- we have ways of making you change your mind
- appeal to force
- but mom, everybodys wearing them
- mob appeal
- there are 7 million poor in this nation. the only answer is a welfare system
- irrelevant thesis
- my opponent has admitted to being an adulterer. so how can we take him seriously on any important issue?
- abusive ad hominem
- wilfred brimley says oatmeal is the right thing to do.
- appeal to authority
- economic equality would be a good idea, except that it comes straight out of the pages of karl marx.
- genetic fallacy
- can you prove there isn't a soul?
- appeal to ignorance
- You've come a long way, baby
- snob appeal
- of course you say children should be seen and not heard. you dont have children
- circumstantial ad hominem
- no good christian would support abortion
- mob appeal
- national health insurance is merely another government boondoggle.
- pooh-pooh
- You say teachers should get higher salaries because they'd be happier on the job? why should they be happier than the rest of us?
- straw man
- a shrewd misrepresentation of an opponents argument --then you disprove that
- straw man
- trying to say that one example disproves the whole argument
- refuting examples
- the parkers are well off, so that defeats tom's whole argument!
- refuting examples
- a diversion designed to pull the argument off track
- red herring
- stupid objections
- trivial objections
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no true scotsman drinks gin.
mcbain drinks gin
well then he must not be a true scotsman - definitional sulk
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i dont know
later : i dont remember - shifting ground
- avoiding commitment to clear words
- hedging
- wHAT YOUsay about toxic waste dumps is all very good. they smell like rotten eggs. i once tasted a rotten egg and....
- red herring