====== Rhetoric ======

This section lists various types of rhetorical devices that can be described as unfair or misleading. The focus here is therefore on the negative examples – in order to help visitors of this site to learn to recognise and counter such methods. 

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**Note:** A lot of the fallacies that are commonly counted as “rhetoric” are better understood as “general” fallacies, or fallacious thinking. Those errors are committed both intentionally and unintentionally by speakers. In any case, the best protection is to understand such mistakes and point them out.

For this reason, the fallacies listed here are “only” the ones that could not be easily moved to the more generic categories under <span maniculus "for more information, see:">[[fallacies:index|general fallacies]]</span>.
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#TODO **This site section is still under development and therefore incomplete.**

===== Articles =====
==== Red herrings (distractions) ====

  * <i :la>[[rhetoric:red_herrings:ad_hominem:index|(Argumentum) ad hominem]]</i>
  * <i :la>[[rhetoric:red_herrings:ad_hominem:tu_quoque|Tu quoque]]</i>

==== Unfair discussion tactics ====

  * [[rhetoric:appeal_to_emotion:index|Appeal to emotion]]
  * <i :la>[[rhetoric:unfair_discussion_tactics:argumentum_ad_baculum|(Argumentum) ad baculum]]</i>
  * [[rhetoric:gish-galopp|Gish-galopp]]

==== Defeasible arguments ====

  * [[rhetoric:appeal_to_consequences|Appeal to consequences]]

===== See also =====

  * [[ambiguity:index|Fallacies of ambiguity]]
    * [[ambiguity:motte-and-bailey|Motte-and-Bailey (fallacy)]]
    * [[ambiguity:syntactic:generic_generalization|Generic generalisation]]
  * [[generalization:index|Fallacious generalisations]]
    * [[generalization:accident_fallacy|Accident fallacy]]
    * [[generalization:overwhelming_exception|Overwhelming exception]]
  * [[relevancy:index|Fallacies of relevancy]]
    * [[relevancy:authority:index|Appeal to authority]]
      * [[relevancy:authority:false_authority:index|Appeal to false authority]]
    * [[relevancy:fallacy-fallacy|Fallacy-fallacy]]
    * [[relevancy:wishful_thinking:index|Wishful thinking]]
      * [[relevancy:wishful_thinking:arrival_fallacy|Arrival fallacy]]

===== More information =====

  * [[wp>Rhetoric]] on //Wikipedia//