https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9 Made with whimsy en-us 2017-06-13 01:46:52 UTC 2025-11-30 23:54:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Pumpkin.png leonardonaylor https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176180599  is the mistaken belief that, if something happens more frequently than normal during some period, it will happen less frequently in the future, or that, if something happens less frequently than normal during some period, it will happen more frequently in the future (presumably as a means of balancing nature).]]> 2017-06-13 01:55:38 UTC https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176180599 leonardonaylor https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176180701 A non sequitur , in formal logic, is an invalid argument. it is used to state that some argument isn't valid but doesn't fall under the usual fallacy title.]]> 2017-06-13 01:56:32 UTC https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176180701 solomonrumble https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176180902 An ad hoc hypothesis is a hypothesis added to a theory in order to save it from being falsified.
Example: Someone believes in a leprechaun, to avoid ever being wrong they say they are invisible or their motives are complex.]]> 2017-06-13 01:59:09 UTC https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176180902 leonardonaylor https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176181031 Ad hominem, is now usually understood as a logical fallacy in which an argument is rebutted by attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.]]> 2017-06-13 02:00:47 UTC https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176181031 https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176181300 2017-06-13 02:03:58 UTC https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176181300 https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176181550 The argument states that a certain position is false or wrong or should be disregarded because its proponent fails to act consistently in accordance with that position.
Example: ]]> 2017-06-13 02:07:05 UTC https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176181550 solomonrumble https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176181715 In a slippery slope argument, a course of action is rejected because, with little or no evidence, one insists that it will lead to a chain reaction resulting in an undesirable end or ends.
Example:  If you allow the students to redo this test, they are going to want to redo every assignment for the rest of the year.]]> 2017-06-13 02:09:03 UTC https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176181715 https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176181854 Where an assertion is deemed true because of the position or authority of the person asserting it.]]> 2017-06-13 02:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176181854 leonardonaylor https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176181957  Substituting a person’s actual position or argument with a distorted, exaggerated, or misrepresented version of the position of the argument.]]> 2017-06-13 02:11:14 UTC https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176181957 https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176182039 Not arguing to prove it correct, but inviting the opposition to prove it incorrect.]]> 2017-06-13 02:11:49 UTC https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176182039 leonardonaylor https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176182560 2017-06-13 02:16:10 UTC https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176182560 leonardonaylor https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176182573 s a fallacious argument that concludes that a proposition is true because many or most people believe it: "If many believe so, it is so."]]> 2017-06-13 02:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/leonardonaylor/w776ryx14st9/wish/176182573