Logos

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Logos Ethos
Pathos
The Rhetorical Triangle
Logos Pathos
Ethos Pathos
Ethos
Logos
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Types of Questions

• Information Questions
• Focus on Explication
• designed to inform or explain
• offer new information or knowledge

• Issue Questions
• Focus on Argumentation
• some disagreement regarding answer
• explication controversy

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Pseudo-arguments

• Fanatical believers
• assert themselves as source of all truth
• may cite definitive texts, but generally rely
  on their own absolute faith in author or narrow
  reading

• Fanatical Skeptics
• impossible to prove anything
• seek only absolute proofs

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Logos Fallacies

• Begging the Question (supporting reason restates
  claim)
• Complex Question (no right response)
• False Dilemma (oversimplifies issue offers two
  alternatives)
• Equivocation (two different definitions of term)
• Confusing Correlation for Cause
• Slippery Slope
• Hasty Generalization
• Faulty Analogy
• Non Sequitur

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Pathos Fallacies

• Stirring Symbols
• Appeal to Ignorance (evidence cant be examined)
• Irrational Premises
• Provincialism (known is better than the unknown)
• Red Herring (shift audiences attention)

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Ethos Fallacies

• False Authority (more popular than knowledgeable)
• Ad Hominem (attack the persons character)
• Straw Man (oversimplify in order to ridicule or
  refute)