Vocabullary

Question 1

What is the Ad Hominem fallacy?

Answer 1

Attacking your opponent’s character or personal traits in an attempt to undermine that argument.

Question 2

What is the genetic fallacy?

Answer 2

Irrelevance that is based solely on someone’s or something’ history, origin, or source rather than its current meaning or context

Question 3

What is the Emotional fallacy?

Answer 3

The manipulation of emotions without any regards to the acceptable argument.

Question 4

what is the normative statement?

Answer 4

An argument with “should” or “ought”

Question 5

what is the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy or Cherry Picking?

Answer 5

Cherry picking data clusters to suit an argument, or finding a pattern to fit a presumption..

Question 6

What is the Tu Quoque fallacy?

Answer 6

Avoiding having to engage with criticism by turning it back on the accuser-answering criticism with criticism..

Question 7

What is the Equivocation of Ambiguity fallacy?

Answer 7

Using double meanings or ambiguities of language to mislead or misrepresent the truth.

Question 8

What is the subject of a sentence?

Answer 8

What the sentence is talking about (Noun, pronoun)

Question 9

What is the predicate of a sentence?

Answer 9

Everything else that is not the subject in a sentence

Question 10

What is a premise?

Answer 10

Reasons

Question 11

What is obfuscation?

Answer 11

Making something obscure or confusing