Fallacies

Question 0

Appeal to Popularity

Answer 0

Belief is not justification for evidence

–> Widescale belief does not justify evidence either

Question 1

Appeal to Emotion

Answer 1

Using emotional reactions as a way to persuade the audience

–> Manipulating the audience to react

Question 2

Straw Man

Answer 2

Manipulating someone’s argument and simplifying it so you can attack them easier, but in fact you have not addressed their real argument.

Question 3

Red Herring

Answer 3

It is a fallacy in which one side of the argument purposefully distracts the audience from the original argument
–> One side distracts the audience and turns the argument into something else

Question 4

Hasty Generalization

Answer 4

When you generalize something based off of one instance

Question 5

False Binary

Answer 5

When you or someone else tries to make the audience believe there are only two sides of the argument

Question 6

Tautology/Circular Reasoning

Answer 6

It is answering a claim by using a piece of evidence also as you conclusion

• -> A is true because B is true. B is true because A is true.
• -> The bible is the word of God because God says it is in the bible

Question 7

Slippery Slope

Answer 7

It is the belief that some event must inevitably follow from another without any rational argument

Question 8

Argument from Ignorance

Answer 8

The absence of evidence does not constitute fact

Question 9

False Analogy

Answer 9

Creating a relationship between two concepts that do not share a relationship
–> Just because these two concepts may be from the same category, they are not related

Question 10

Post Hoc Ergo Proctor Hoc

Answer 10

Because two things occur at the same time, we believe that these two things cause each event

Question 11

Appeal to Authority

Answer 11

You assume that someone is correct because of their authority even if the advice they give you is not in their area of expertise.