Fallacies-definitions

Question 1

Appeal to emotion

Answer 1

This fallacy results when correct reasoning is replaced by appeals to specific emotions, such as pity

Question 2

Appeal to ignorance

Answer 2

This fallacy results when it is argued that a proposition is true on the ground that it has not been proved falls, or when it is are you daddy position is false because it has not been proved true.

Question 3

Inappropriate authority

Answer 3

This fallacy results when the promise of an argument appealed to the judgment of some person who has no legitimate claims to authority or in matter at hand.

Question 4

Division

Answer 4

This fallacy results when one question mistakenly from the attributes of a whole to the attributes of one of its parts

Question 5

Strawman

Answer 5

This fallacy results win correct reasoning is underminded by misrepresentation of our own its position, often taking the most extreme position.

Question 6

Equivocation

Answer 6

This fallacy results when one uses one word or two or more meanings in an argument

Question 7

Attack the person, abusive

Answer 7

This fallacy results when opponents is insulted directly

Question 8

Fallacies of presumption

Answer 8

This is the name of a group of fallacies in which one relies on some proposition that is assumed to be true but is false or uncertain

Question 9

Begging the question

Answer 9

This fallacy results when one assumes the premise of truth of what one seeks is to establish in the conclusion

Question 10

Fallacies of defective induction

Answer 10

This is the name of a group of fallacies in which the premises are far too weak to support the conclusion

Question 11

Attack the person, circumstantial

Answer 11

This fallacy results when the opponents background, education, or identity is attacked.

Question 12

Appeal to force

Answer 12

This fallacy results when reasoning is replaced by threats

Question 13

Composition

Answer 13

This fallacy results when one reason mistakenly from the attributes of part to the attributes of the whole.

Question 14

Accent

Answer 14

This fallacy results when a shift of meaning arises within an argument as a consequence of changes in the emphasis given to its words or parts.

Question 15

Missing the point

Answer 15

This fallacy results when correct reasoning is replaced by mistaken refutation of a position that was not really at issue.

Question 16

False cause

Answer 16

This fallacy results when one treats as the cause of something that which is not really the cause of that thing, often relying on close succession of two events

Question 17

Red herring

Answer 17

This fallacy results when one introduces some event or character the miss leads or distract the audience.

Question 18

Fallacies of Relevance

Answer 18

This is the name of a group of fallacies in which the premise and conclusions are not related

Question 19

Complex question

Answer 19

This fallacy results when one question that includes a berry assumption

Question 20

Accident

Answer 20

This fallacy results when one mistakenly apply as a generalization to an individual case that does not properly govern

Question 21

Appeal to populous

Answer 21

This fallacy results when logic is replaced by an appeal to pride, emotion, or to join the group of popularity.

Question 22

Fallacies of ambiguity

Answer 22

This fallacy is the name of the group of fallacies in which the meanings of words and phrases change in an argument

Question 23

Fallacies of Amphiboly

Answer 23

This fallacy results when one of the statements in an argument has more than one plausible meaning, because of the loose or awkward way in which words in that statement have been combined

Question 24

Hasty generalization

Answer 24

This fallacy occurs when one moves carelessly or to quickly from one instance to a broad or universal claim