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A tone argument (also called tone policing) is a type of ad hominem aimed at the tone of an argument instead of its factual or logical content in order...

An argument is a series of sentences, statements, or propositions some of which are called premises and one is the conclusion. The purpose of an argument...

argument is a deductive philosophical argument, made from an ontological basis, that is advanced in support of the existence of God. Such arguments tend...

(sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing...

Anthony Terrell Smith (born March 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Tone Lōc (/toʊn loʊk/), is an American rapper. He is known for his raspy voice...

The doomsday argument (DA), or Carter catastrophe, is a probabilistic argument that claims to predict the future population of the human species based...

person'), short for argumentum ad hominem, refers to several types of arguments that are fallacious. Often nowadays this term refers to a rhetorical strategy...

Ireland. (Tone's diary records Thomas Paine's Rights of Man as the "Koran of Belfast"). The Belfast club had invited Tone as the author of An Argument on behalf...

Wikiquote has quotations related to Argument from authority. An argument from authority is a form of argument in which the opinion of an authority figure...

counters the arguments for the existence of God, and puts forward humanism as an alternative to religion. Grayling is concerned with tone. He states that...

Argument to moderation (Latin: argumentum ad temperantiam)—also known as the false compromise, argument from middle ground, fallacy of gray, middle ground...

the tone of a literary work expresses the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience. The concept of a work's tone has...

Argument from fallacy is the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false. It...

coda (final vowel or consonant). Diacritics are used to indicate the four tones found in Standard Chinese, though these are often omitted in various contexts...

misericordiam, the sob story, or the Galileo argument) is a fallacy in which someone tries to win support for an argument or idea by exploiting one's opponent's...

or the horse laugh) is an informal fallacy which presents an opponent's argument as absurd, ridiculous, or humorous, and therefore not worthy of serious...

In a slippery slope argument, a course of action is rejected because the slippery slope advocate believes it will lead to a chain reaction resulting in...

Ad nauseam is a Latin term for an argument or other discussion that has continued to the point of nausea. For example, "this has been discussed ad nauseam"...

In argumentation theory, an argumentum ad populum (Latin for "appeal to the people") is a fallacious argument which is based on claiming a truth or affirming...

Argument from analogy is a special type of inductive argument, where perceived similarities are used as a basis to infer some further similarity that...