TFYChapter 10-fallacies: what’s a faulty argument?

Chapter 10-fallacies: what’s a faulty argument?
1. Word ambiguity uses undefined and vague words n an argument, seeking to gain an advantage by using words that could be interpreted in more than one way.
2. Misleading euphemisms are words that hide meaning by wrapping less acceptable ideas in positive or neutral connotations.
3. Prejudicial language persuades though the use of loaded words that convey a bias while pretending to convey objective information.
4. Appeals to fear and pity seek to persuade by affecting emotions rather than through sound rational support for an argument.
5. Appeal to false authority seeks to influences other by citing phony or inappropriate authorities
6. Appeal to bandwagon is another example of the appeal to authority
7. Personal attack refutes another argument by attacking the opponent rather than addressing the argument itself.
8. Poisoning the well seeks to prejudice other against a person, group, or idea and prevents their positions from being heard.
9. The red herring is a ploy of distraction
10. The straw man is an argument that misrepresents, oversimplifies, or caricatures an opponent’s position; it create a false replica, then destroys the replica.
11. Pointing to another wrong is also called two wrongs make a right.
12. Circular reasoning is the assertion or repeated assertion of a conclusion as though the conclusion were a reason.