Chapter 37 New

Question 1

Arguing for a position on the basis that negative consequences will follow if a person does not accept the position.

Answer 1

appeal to force/fear

Question 2

Fallacy of attempting to persuade people by stirring powerful emotions rather than making a logical case.

Answer 2

appeal to emotion

Question 3

Persuading people to accept a position by generating sympathy for those who hold the position.

Answer 3

appeal to pity

Question 4

Fallacy of appealing to the unknown; specifically when a person argues that a claim is probably true simply because it has never been proven false.

Answer 4

appeal to ignorance

Question 5

A guess; an inference formed without proof or with insufficient evidence.

Answer 5

conjecture

Question 6

Arguing that since something is a particular way, it is morally acceptable for it to be that way.

Answer 6

Naturalistic fallacy

Question 7

Asserting that because something should morally) be a particular way, it is that particular way.

Answer 7

moralistic fallacy

Question 8

Arguing that something must be true because it is desirable or that something must be false because it is undesirable.

Answer 8

appeal to consequence

Question 9

The error of criticizing or dismissing an argument due to its source.

Answer 9

genetic fallacy

Question 10

Attempting to refute an argument by pointing out that the person making the argument is not behaving consistently with the conclusion of the argument.

Answer 10

the quoque fallacy

Question 11

The fallacy of dismissing an argument because the conclusion is inconsistent with the behavior of the person making the argument. The tu quoque fallacy.

Answer 11

appeal to hypocrisy

Question 12

Proving a point, but not the point at issue.

Answer 12

fallacy of irrelevant thesis