Fallacies 12/8/14

Question 1

What are the fallacies of relevance?

Answer 1

Red herring, ad hominem, and fault analogy

Question 2

What are the fallacies of accuracy?

Answer 2

Straw man and either/or (false dilemma)

Question 3

What are the fallacies of insufficiency?

Answer 3

Hasty generalization and circular reasoning

Question 4

Red herring

Answer 4

Speaker skips to a new and relevant topic to avoid discussion.

Question 5

Ad hominem

Answer 5

Tactic of switching the argument from the issue at hand to the character of the other speaker.

Question 6

Faulty analogy

Answer 6

When two things are not comparable.

Question 7

Straw man

Answer 7

Speaker chooses a poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an opponent’s viewpoint.

Question 8

Either/or ( false dilemma )

Answer 8

Speaker presents two extreme options as the only possible choices.

Question 9

Hasty generalization

Answer 9

Not enough evidence to support a particular conclusion.

Question 10

Circular reasoning

Answer 10

Repeating the claim as a way to provide evidence resulting in no evidence at all.