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"Specious"
Keywords:
plausible
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argument
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ethel
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meretricious
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false
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Ad hominem
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Unsound
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Petitio principii
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Begging the question
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Fallacy
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Argument
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Ad hominem argument
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Cogent
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Straw man argument
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Refutation
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Ad hominem attack
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Hasty generalization
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Sound argument
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Logical fallacy
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Straw man
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Sophism
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Inductive argument
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Persuade
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Argument
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Strawman
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Deductive argument
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Reductio ad absurdum
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Peripheral route to persuasion
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Logical argument
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Contradiction
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Fallacy of composition
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Accident
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Eristic
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Argumentation
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Appeal to authority
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Truism
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Non sequitur
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Sound
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Contradict
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Premise
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Untrue
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Modus tollens
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Argue
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Argument
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Ratiocination
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Reason
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Contrary
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Naturalistic fallacy
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Apodictic
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Deductive
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Paradox
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Counterexample
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Enthymeme
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Contradictory
Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy.
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Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct, but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument.
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plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert
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plausible but false; "a specious claim"
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based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
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an argument that seems plausible but is in fact fallacious.
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lackin
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seemin
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merit
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baaaad
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fust
seemin' baaaad o' sound at fust but lackin' real merit. Man
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seemin' good or sound at first but lackin' real merit.
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seeming good or sound at first but lacking real merit.
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