Fallacies

Question 1

Occurs when an arguer presents their argument as one of only two options despite the presence of multiple possibilities.

Answer 1

False Dilema

Question 2

Occurs when something is instantly concluded to be true just because it is not proven to be false and vice versa.

Answer 2

Appeal to Ignorance

Question 3

Occurs when a series of increasingly superficial and unacceptable consequences is drawn

Answer 3

Slippery Slope

Question 4

Occurs when two or more points are rolled into one and the reader is expected to either accept or reject both at the same time, when one point may be satisfactory while the other is not.

Answer 4

Complex Questions

Question 5

Occurs when a threat instead of reasoning is used to argue.

Answer 5

Appeal to force

Question 6

Occurs when the element of pity is used instead of logical reasoning.

Answer 6

Appeal to pity

Question 7

Occurs when unpleasant consequences of believing something are pointed out to show that the belief is false

Answer 7

Appeal to consequences

Question 8

Occurs when an argument is considered to be valid because of what the majority thinks

Answer 8

Bandwagon

Question 9

Occurs when someone tries to refuse an argument by attacking the character of a person instead the ideas of the argument.

Answer 9

Attacking the person

Question 10

When the argument quotes an expert who is not qualified in the particular subject manner

Answer 10

Appeal to authority

Question 11

The authority in question is not mentioned or named

Answer 11

Anonymous Authority

Question 12

Occurs when sample is not significant or enough to support a generalization about a population

Answer 12

Hasty generalization

Question 13

Occurs when the writer assumes two concepts that are similar in some ways are also similar in other ways

Answer 13

False analogy

Question 14

Occurs when a general rule is applied to a situation even when it should be an exception

Answer 14

Accident

Question 15

Assuming that an event must have been the cause of a later event because it happened earlier

Answer 15

Post hoc

Question 16

Occurs when the direction between cause and effect is reverse

Answer 16

wrong direction

Question 17

Occurs when the explanation for an event is reduced to one thing when there are other factors which also contributed to the event

Answer 17

Complex cause

Question 18

Occurs when an argument which is supposed or prove something concludes something else instead.

Answer 18

Irrelevant conclusion

Question 19

Occurs when the position of the opposition is twisted so that is easier to refute

Answer 19

Straw man

Question 20

Any argument of the form; if A is true then B is true. If it is true therefore A is true

Answer 20

Affirming the consequent

Question 21

Any argument in the form; if A is true, then B is true. If A is not true therefore B is not true

Answer 21

Denying the Antecedent

Question 22

Occurs when the arguments contradict one another

Answer 22

inconsistency