Quiz 2

Question 1

This fallacy attempts to link the validity of a premise to a characteristic or belief of the person advocating the premise.

Answer 1

Against the Person

Question 2

An argument where force, coercion, or the threat of force, is given as a justification for a conclusion.

Answer 2

Appeal to force

Question 3

An argument that appeals or exploits people’s vanities, desire for esteem, and anchoring on popularity.

Answer 3

Appeal to the people

Question 4

Since that event followed this one, that event must have been caused by this one.

Answer 4

False cause

Question 5

This fallacy is also referred to as
coincidental correlation, or correlation not causation.

Answer 5

False cause

Question 6

One commits errors if one reaches an inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence.

Answer 6

Hasty generalization

Question 7

This is a type of fallacy in which the proposition to be proven is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premise.

Answer 7

Begging the question

Question 8

This is a logical chain of reasoning of a term or a word several times but giving the particular word a different meaning each time.

Answer 8

Equivocation

Question 9

this infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole.

Answer 9

Composition

Question 10

One reasons logically that something true of a thing must also be true of all or some of its parts.

Answer 10

Division

Question 11

a defect in an argument other than it having false premises.

Answer 11

Fallacies

Question 12

specific kind of appeal to emotion in which someone tries to win support for an argument or idea by exploiting his or her opponent’s feelings of pity or guilt

Answer 12

Appeal to Pity

Question 13

Whatever has not been proved false must be true, and vice versa.

Answer 13

Appeal to ignorance