Ch 3.4: Fallacies of Presumption, Ambiguity, and Illicit Transference

Question 1

What is false dichotomy?

Answer 1

The fallacy of false dichotomy is committed when a disjunctive premise presents two unlikely alternatives as if they were the only ones available, and the arguer then eliminates the undesirable alternative, leaving the desirable one as the conclusion

Question 2

What is equivocation?

Answer 2

The fallacy of equivocation occurs when the conclusion of an argument depends on the fact that a word or phrase is used in two different senses in the argument.

Question 3

What is composition?

Answer 3

The fallacy of composition is committed when the conclusion of an argument depends of the erroneous transference of an attribute from the parts of something onto the whole