ENGL 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Slippery Slope, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Ad Hominem

• School: Fordham University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 2800
• Professor: Karina

Document Summary

I renewed my driver"s license, and a day later i lost it. I renewed my driver"s license and a day later, i lost it. I renewed my driver"s license; a day later i lost it. The hasty generalization: drawing a conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence. The faulty use of authority: the attempt to bolster dubious claims by citing the opinion of. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc: after this, therefore because of this arguing that because one event follows another event, the first event must be the cause for the second. False analogy: using an analogy between two things as proof of a connection between those two things. False dilemma: oversimplifying a complex problem by implying that only two alternatives exist. Argument ad hominem: against the man attempt to discredit an argument by attacking the person rather than the argument itself.