Sunday, November 15, 2009

Ethos, Pathos & Logos and types of rhetoric

Logos is the appeal to reason that relies on logic or reason.

- It includes facts, statistics, examples, and authoratative examples.

Ethos- is the the credibility, character, reliability, and integrity of the writer and or speaker.

Pathos-emotional power of language

Post hoc fallacy-relationship
Adhominem argument-lost points and attack one another instead. -Attack people rather than ideas.

Questionable or faulty sources.

Begging the question-fails to establish proof for a database

Fals analogy-wrongly implies that because two thing sshare some characteristics they are therefore alike.

Either/or fallacy -when you assume that the possible outcome is either this or that.

Red Herring-deflects attention from the matter of what is being discussed.

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