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- PHL320 · Week 2
This quiz covers rhetorical devices used in critical thinking and decision making in business. It is for Week 2 of the PHL320 module. It helps students practice identifying fallacies and logical errors in arguments.
What's inside
- Smokescreen rhetorical device
- Appeal to popularity
- Common practice
- Peer pressure
- Bandwagon
- Scare tactics
Who it is for: Students taking the PHL320 course. (Undergraduate)
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Summary
Rhetorical devices are ways of persuading someone to accept a claim. They can be fallacies, which are errors in reasoning. Students learn to identify these devices and fallacies in arguments.
Smokescreen
A smokescreen is a rhetorical device. It tries to hide the real issue or true motivation. It does this without telling a direct lie. It brings up a related but irrelevant topic instead.
Appeal to popularity
This device encourages acceptance of a claim because it is already accepted by many others. It is not a valid reason to accept a claim. Even if many people accept a claim, it can still be wrong.
Common practice
This device justifies an action because it is normal behavior. It is practiced by many or some significant group of people. It is not a proof that some claim or action is the correct one.
Peer pressure
This device argues for a course of action to win the approval of others. It can pressure a person to act against their better judgment. Approval or disapproval is not a valid argument.
Key terms
- Rhetorical device
- A way of persuading someone to accept a claim.
- Fallacy
- An error in reasoning.
- Smokescreen
- A rhetorical device that tries to hide the real issue.
- Appeal to popularity
- A rhetorical device that encourages acceptance of a claim because it is already accepted by many others.
- Common practice
- A rhetorical device that justifies an action because it is normal behavior.
- Peer pressure
- A rhetorical device that argues for a course of action to win the approval of others.
Questions this document helps with
- What is a smokescreen in an argument?
- How does appeal to popularity work?
- What is common practice in rhetoric?
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