Ch7 Recap

Question 1

Hasty generalization

Answer 1

Generalizing from too few cases or from samples that are too small

Question 2

Generalizing from exceptional cases

Answer 2

Generalizing from cases that are exceptional or from samples that are biased (skewed)

Question 3

Accident

Answer 3

applying a general statement to a possibly exceptional case

Question 4

weak analogy

Answer 4

offering an argument based on debatable similarities between two or more things

Question 5

mistaken appeal to authority

Answer 5

attempting to support a claim by citing a source that is not really an authority

Question 6

mistaken appeal to popularity

Answer 6

treating an issue that cannot be settled by public opinion as if it could

Question 7

post hoc, ergo propter hoc

Answer 7

thinking that a temporal succession between two variables, in and of itself, establishes a cause and effect connection between them.

Question 8

Cum hoc, ergo propter hoc

Answer 8

thinking that simultaneity between two variables, in and of itself, establishes a cause and effect connection between them

Question 9

slippery slope

Answer 9

offering an argument resting on an unsupported warning that something will progress by degrees to an undesirable outcome

Question 10

untestable explanation

Answer 10

an argument based on an untestable explanation