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From Juvenal, Satire X, line 81. Originally described all that was needed for emperors to placate the

To do something to appeal to the masses. Often used of politicians who make false or insincere

George Will said, on the show "This Week with George Stephanopolis" Sunday, Oct 7, 2007,

Pascal's Wager On Apr 14, 9:20 am, sageofspringfi...@gmail.com wrote: > An argument that a

A syllogistic argument in which the middle term of a categorical syllogism is not distributed in at

Two wrongs never add up to a right; you cannot right a wrong by applying yet another wrong. Such a

Also known by the Latin term "DICTO SIMPLICITER", a Sweeping Generalization occurs when a

It is a fallacy to misrepresent someone else's position for the purposes of more easily attacking

Special pleading is a logical fallacy wherein a double standard is employed by the person making the

The burden of proof is always on the person making the assertion or proposition. Shifting the burden

To reify something is to convert an abstract concept into a concrete thing. Reification is a Fallacy

A fallacy when irrelevant material is introduced to the issue being discussed, such that

An argument of the syllogistic form in which there occur four or more terms. In a standard

An argument from a premise of the form "A preceded B" to a conclusion of the form "A

Description: Same as "Begging the Question" The argument assumes its conclusion is true but

An argument in which the conclusion is not a necessary consequence of the premises. Another way of

An argument to reject a proposition because of the falsity of some other proposition that seems to be

A demand for a simple answer to a complex question.

A syllogistic argument in which a term is distributed in the conclusion, but not in the premises. One

An argument that is supposed to prove one proposition but succeeds only in proving a different one.

An argument in which a proposition is used as a premise without attention given to some obvious

An analogy is a partial similarity between the like features of two things or events on which a

The question asked has a presuppostion which the answerer may wish to deny, but which he/she would be

An argument in which an equivocal expression is used in one sense in one premise and in a different

An argument in which one assumes that various parts have a property solely because the whole has that

Description: An argument in which one infers the falsity of the consequent from the truth of a

A fallacy of correlation that links events because they occur simultaneously; one asserts that

If P then Q, therefore, if Q then P. Think of some examples.

Description: An argument in which one assumes that a whole has a property solely because its various

Also referred to as the "black and white" fallacy, bifurcation is the presentation of a