Critical Thinking Flaws Flaws and their explainations 3.5 / 5 based on 2 ratings ? Critical ThinkingASOCR Created by: Carly BCreated on: 17-04-13 11:07 Slippery Slope Argues that a small event will lead to an extreme result, the link between the first event and final result is weak 1 of 17 Circular Arguments connclusion repeats one of the reasons 2 of 17 Circular Arguments (Begging the question) you have to accept the conclusion before you can accept the reasons (and vice versa) 3 of 17 Conflation taking two different things as if they are the same when they may not be (e.g. older or mature) 4 of 17 Confusing necessary and sufficient conditions necessary condition must be true for an event to happen but sufficient condition is enough for an event to happen 5 of 17 Arguing from one to another, unrelated conclusion The reasons argue something different to the conclusion 6 of 17 Straw Man/Person creating a caricature (weak form) of the counter-argument and easily dismissing it, and then claiming to have dismissed the whole counter-argument 7 of 17 Ad Hominem an attack on the person rather than the reasoning 8 of 17 False Dichotomy restricting the options to just two possibilities only 9 of 17 Post Hoc Argues that A caused B because B came after A 10 of 17 Hasty Generalization using a claim about a few things/people to generalize a lot of things/people 11 of 17 Sweeping Generalizations using a claim about a lot of things/people to generalize about a few 12 of 17 Appeal to authority Using an authority figure to support the reasoning 13 of 17 Appeal to popularity (ad populum) The majority of people believe X is true, but that does not mean the majority is correct 14 of 17 Appeal to emotion An argument based upon emotion without reason 15 of 17 Appeal to tradion Because we have always done something in this particular way, does not make it correct 16 of 17 Appeal to history Using evidence from the past to try to predict the future 17 of 17
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