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What is a slippery slope?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIv3m2gMgUU
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What is appealing to tradition?
You have to hold up four fingers at the beginning of the fourth quarter at every home football game because that's what Miami players and fans have always done.
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What is ad hominem?
How can you argue your case for vegetarianism when you are enjoying your steak?
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Not a fallacy.
(Just kidding! What is an either-or fallacy?)
If you do not practice your speeches, you will fail COS211.
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What is ad hominem?
A fallacy that attacks the person instead of his or her argument.
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What is a red herring?
(start at 00:30) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm3d43HLyTI
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What is a hasty generalization?
Students who live in the Hecht Residential College are better athletes than those who live in other residential colleges because Hecht won Sportsfest.
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What is a slippery slope?
If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to want a glass of milk.
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Not a fallacy.
(Just kidding! What is begging the question?)
Jaimee Spector is the best public speaking professor ever.
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What is a non sequitur?
A fallacy whose argument does not follow in logical order.
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What is bandwagoning?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-fOEBUSt4
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What is a slippery slope?
I can't go to baseball games at Mark Light Field because the milkshakes are so good, I'll gain 100 pounds.
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What is begging the question?
The death penalty is wrong because killing people is immoral.
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What is bandwagoning?
COS211 is a popular course, so you should take it.
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What is begging the question?
A fallacy that states something is true without any support or evidence.
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What is a red herring?
(start at 00:04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbVa0cPAJ1g&list=PL0nC9dGvhYsAptg0h6EqqJeZovYvf2vOn
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What is begging the question?
The Jayro is the best milkshake at Mark Light Field.
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What is a non sequitur?
Marilyn drives a Mercedes, meaning she's very wealthy.
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What is a hasty generalization?
Jaimee is a pretty cool person, and she is a public speaking professor, so all public speaking professors must be pretty cool people.
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What is a red herring?
A fallacy that distracts the audience from the point of the argument.
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What is begging the question?
(start at 00:38) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk0ucnbbVDI
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What is the either-or fallacy?
If you're not a season ticket holder, you're a terrible fan.
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What is appealing to tradition?
Everyone in your family has been part of Greek life, so you must join a fraternity.
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What is appealing to tradition?
On the first day of COS211, Jaimee walked into Wolfson 2028 because that's where her Fall 2016 class met.
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What is appealing to tradition?
A fallacy that states something must be done a certain way because it has always been done that way.
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