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Mental conception of person, verbal, visual, characteristics
3 dimensions
- Expertise
2.trustworthiness
3.goodwill
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Is what people often do, strategy is goal, tactic is how it’s achieved
3 parts of argument
Data, warrant, claim
Claims
Fact, value, policy
Arguments provide reason
Are arguable
Data 2 kinds
Perceptual: beliefs about nature of world and objects in it
Value: beliefs about the worth of something
Warrant
Connects data to claim
Inferred
Through formal reasoning (5 terms)
Generalization
What is true for members of a class will be true for a specific meme we if a class
ENTHYMEME
Sign
Observable mark
Person/act
Authority
Example
If something is true in a specific case it is true for entire class of things
Cause
One event/condition brings out another
Analogy
What is true in one case will be true in another similar case
Applies single case to ONE other case
Backing
Additional support for warrant
Qualifier
Strength of claim/wording
NOT VERB
Rebuttal
Unless statement
Fallacy
Flaw in reasoning
False analogy
Compares 2 things that are not alike
Hasty Generalization
Conclusion drawn from too small of sample size
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc (sequential)
One thing happened first and caused the next thing
Begging the question
Offering idea as own reasoning
Ad hominem
Personal attack on people
Non sequitur
Does not follow, conclusion drawn from beliefs not connected to it
Appeal to authority
Unwarranted appeal to authority figures
Straw argument
Attacks weakened form of argument that opponent didn’t bring up
