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  2. The False Subtlety of the Four Syllogistic Figures - Wikipedia

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    "The tiger (Subject) is (Copula) a four-footed (Immediate Predicate) animal." (Mediate Predicate) {"The tiger} is {a four-footed} animal." (Subject) (Copula) {(Immediate Predicate)} {(Mediate Predicate)} In order to have clear knowledge of the relation between a predicate and a subject, one can consider a predicate to be a mediate (or indirect [mittelbares]) predicate. Between this mediate ...

  3. Five-paragraph essay - Wikipedia

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    The five-paragraph essay is a format of essay having five paragraphs: one introductory paragraph, three body paragraphs with support and development, and one concluding paragraph. Because of this structure, it is also known as a hamburger essay , one three one , or a three-tier essay .

  4. Fallacy - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes a speaker or writer uses a fallacy intentionally. In any context, including academic debate, a conversation among friends, political discourse, advertising, or comedic purposes, the arguer may use fallacious reasoning to try to persuade the listener or reader, by means other than offering relevant evidence, that the conclusion is true.

  5. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes called the "I-knew-it-all-along" effect, or the "Hindsight is 20/20" effect, is the tendency to see past events as having been predictable [99] before they happened. Impact bias The tendency to overestimate the length or the intensity of the impact of future feeling states.

  6. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Non-standard: I had trouble making friends with them; I never felt excepted. Non-standard: We all went swimming, accept for Jack. acute and chronic. Acute means "sharp", as an acute illness is one that rapidly worsens and reaches a crisis. A chronic illness may also be a severe one, but it is long-lasting, lingering, or having a long history. [5]

  7. Appeal to tradition - Wikipedia

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    A close relative/variant of the appeal to tradition is the argument from inertia or appeal to inertia (sometimes called "Stay the Course"), which states a mistaken status quo, potentially related to existing customs be maintained for its own sake, usually because making a change would require admission of fault in the mistake or because correcting the mistake would require extraordinary effort ...

  8. Test of English as a Foreign Language - Wikipedia

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    The Listening section consists of questions on 2–3 conversations with 5 questions each and 3–4 lectures with 6 questions each. Each conversation is 2.5–3 minutes and lectures are 4.55.5 minutes in length. The conversations involve a student and either a professor or a campus service provider.

  9. Mistakes were made - Wikipedia

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    Mistakes were made" is an expression that is commonly used as a rhetorical device, whereby a speaker acknowledges that a situation was handled poorly or inappropriately but seeks to evade any direct admission or accusation of responsibility by not specifying the person who made the mistakes, nor any specific act that was a mistake.