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Dr. Jay
VerLinden
Communication
Department
College of Arts, Humanities
and Social Sciences
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Argumentation and Critical Thinking Tutorial

INFORMAL FALLACY DEFINITIONS GROUP 1
TEST #2

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Reprehensible personality is a fallacy that happens when someone concludes that someone couldn't do something good or must have done something wrong either because he is a bad person or because he occupies an unpopular position.

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Which of the following fallacies happens when someone concludes that someone must be honest because the people he hangs around with are honest?

Laudatory personality

Guilt by association

Reprehensible personality

Circular reasoning