FALLACIES Flashcards
Fallacies are _____ in reasoning that weakens an _______
error; arguement
A main branch of fallacies that include premises and conclusions that appeal to psychological or emotional reason and is irrelevant to logic
FALLACY OF RELEVANCE
IDENTIFY THE FALLACY
“Your workout trainer cant be trusted, who would trust a girl when it comes to body building?”
ARGUEMENTUM AD HOMINEM (against the person)
IDENTIFY THE FALLACY
No one could prove God does not exist, so he MUST exist.
APPEAL TO IGNORANCE
A type of fallacy that states a specific course of events, each more undesirable than the other, as the only possible outcomes to a premise
SLIPPERY SLOPE
Define the STRAWMAN ARGUEMENT
It is distorting an opposing view so that it is easy to refute.
CUE WORDS: distorting ; easy to refute
includes the misuse of language. An ambiguous word, phrase, or sentence is a language that has more than one meaning.
FALLACY OF AMBIGUITY
It is committed when there is a defect in the grammatical construction of the sentence. The sentences have double interpretations due to structural defects, mistakes in grammar, or the arrangement of words.
AMPHIBOLY
IDENTIFY THE FALLACY:
“Stop children passing”
“stop, children passing”
ACCENT
It is committed when an attribute of a specific part is applied to the collective whole. It is fallacious when it is argued that because the parts have a certain characteristic, it follows that the whole has the characteristics too.
COMPOSITION
What is the other term for HASTY GENERALIZATION?
CONVERSE ACCIDENT
Define the FALLACY OF PRESUMPTION
arguments with premises and conclusions having no logical correlation.
IDENTIFY THE FALLACY:
“I will Rate this teacher’s score high because he survived a car accident”
APPEAL TO PITY
IDENTIFY THE FALLACY:
“For years, the school’s periodical exams total to 200 points, why should we change it?”
APPEAL TO TRADITION
IDENTIFY THE FALLACY:
“I have the right to freedom, therefore i can do what ever the hecc i want”
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