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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

FALLACY DEFINITIONS
GROUP 6: REFUTATION BASED FALLACIES
TEST #3

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The answer you chose is the appeal to force fallacy, which is also called ad baculum .

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The argument against the person consists of

ignoring another person's arguments and attacking her character instead

asserting an opposing arguer has taken an easily defeated position, which she has not really taken

causing confusion during an argument by a lack of ability to engage in refutation

using threats of harm instead of reasoning to gain agreement