fallacies

Question 1

appeal to force

Answer 1

Telling the hearer that something bad will happen to him if he does not accept the argument.

Question 2

Appeal to pity

Answer 2

This type of fallacy uses the audiences’s sympathy, concern, or guilt in order to overwhelm their sense of logic

Question 3

Hasty Generalization

Answer 3

A fallacy in which a faulty conclusion is reached because of inadequate evidence.

Question 4

Appeal to the people

Answer 4

Uses the views of the majority as a persuasive device (very similar to bandwagon).

Question 5

Argument against the person

Answer 5

An informal fallacy that occurs when an arguer verbally attacks the person of a second arguer for the purpose of discrediting his or her argument

Question 6

accident

Answer 6

A general rule is applied to a specific case it was not intended to cover

Question 7

Missing the point

Answer 7

The premises of an argument do support a particular conclusion—but not the conclusion that the arguer actually draws.

Question 8

straw Man

Answer 8

A fallacy that occurs when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an idea.

Question 9

Red Harring

Answer 9

A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion

Question 10

False Cause

Answer 10

a fallacy in which a speaker mistakenly assumes that because one event follows another, the first event is the cause of the second

Question 11

Slippery Slope

Answer 11

A fallacy that assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that cannot be prevented

Question 12

weak analogy fallacy

Answer 12

argument in which a speaker compares two things that are dissimilar, making the comparison inaccurate

Question 13

begging the question

Answer 13

A fallacy in which a claim is based on evidence or support that is in doubt.

Question 14

Complex Question Fallacy

Answer 14

involves asking a question that illegitimately presupposes some conclusion alluded to in the question

Question 15

false dichotomy fallacy

Answer 15

pretending there are only two possibilities when really there are far more

Question 16

Supressed evidence

Answer 16

arguer ignores important evidence that requires a different conclusion

Question 17

Equivocation Fallacy

Answer 17

About vagueness or ambiguity of words.
The misinterpretation of certain words or phrases

Question 18

Amphiboly

Answer 18

the misinterpretation of whole statements

Question 19

Appeal to Ignorance

Answer 19

A fallacy that uses an opponent’s inability to disprove a conclusion as proof of the conclusion’s correctness.

Question 20

Composition

Answer 20

The illegitimate change of subject from:
a. From members of a class to that class as a whole
b. From consistent parts of a thing to the whole thing

Question 21

Division

Answer 21

The illegitimate etange of subject
a. From a class as a whole to its members
b. From a whole object to its consistent parts