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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 2
TEST #1

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Anecdotes, or stories, make up a small sample and may be unrepresentative of the larger group.

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"Anecdotal evidence" is a fallacy that happens when an arguer

substitutes individual stories for a larger sample as support for a generalization.

argues that something is necessarily better because it is old

argues that since one event preceded a second event, the first event must have caused the second event

argues that something is necessarily better because it is new