Fallacies

Question 0

Tu quoque

Answer 0

Hypocrite

Question 1

Ad hominem

Answer 1

Argument against the person, attacking character flaws

Question 2

Appeal to the people

Answer 2

Appeals to people’s desire to belong to a group. Avoidance of objective evidence in favor of an emotional response

Question 3

Appeal to pity

Answer 3

Emotional plea that relies solely on a sense of pity for support

Question 4

Appeal to force

Answer 4

Physical or otherwise threat

Question 5

Appeal to ignorance

Answer 5

A statement must be true bc it hasn’t been proven false or a statement must be false bc it hasn’t been proven true

Question 6

Missing the point

Answer 6

When premises seem to be going somewhere and take an unexpected turn

Question 7

Appeal to unqualified authority

Answer 7

Argument that relies on the opinions of other people who have no expertise training or knowledge relevant to the issue at hand

Question 8

Begging the question

Answer 8

An argument where the conclusion is the premise

Question 9

Complex question

Answer 9

Question that contains multiple hidden parts

Question 10

Biased sample

Answer 10

Non representative sample used as support for a statistical claim about the entire pop

Question 11

Accident

Answer 11

When a generalization is in appropriately applied to the case at hand

Question 12

Hasty generalization

Answer 12

Generalization created on the basis of a few instances. Frat guys, brown hair

Question 13

Misleading precision

Answer 13

Claim that appears statistically significant but is not. 30% less fat

Question 14

False dichotomy

Answer 14

2 choices are presented when others exist

Question 15

False dilemma

Answer 15

2 awful choices are presented and others exist

Question 16

False cause

Answer 16

Connection is assumed to exist bt 2 events when none exists

Question 17

Coincidence

Answer 17

Accidental chance connection bt 2 events

Question 18

Post hoc

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Fallacy involving either short term or long term pattern noticed after the fact

Question 19

Common cause fallacy

Answer 19

When 1 thing is thought to cause the other but they were both cause my something else

Question 20

Slippery slope

Answer 20

Attempts to make a final event of the inevitable outcome of an initial act

Question 21

Equivocation

Answer 21

Different double meaning of a word

Question 22

Amphiboly

Answer 22

Poorly constructed statement muddles the intended meaning

Question 23

Composition

Answer 23

Mistaken transfer of the individual parts of an object to the object as a whole

Question 24

Division

Answer 24

Mistake transfer of an attribute of an object as a whole to its individual pars

Question 25

Emphasis

Answer 25

I will? Glad you agree

Question 26

Straw man

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Words taken out of content and presented as a different t weak argument

Question 27

Red herring

Answer 27

Changes the subject from the argument at hand