Deck 4: Fallacies

Question 1

Advertisements featuring famous musicians selling life insurance are examples of the fallacy of:

A)appeal to emotion
B)appeal to inappropriate authority
C)appeal to pity
D)argument ad hominem

Answer 1

appeal to inappropriate authority

Question 2

"You should buy these shoes, because everyone has them! Except ugly people, of course."
This speaker is using the fallacy of:

A)argument ad populum
B)argument ad hominem
C)appeal to inappropriate authority
D)argument from ignorance

Answer 2

argument ad populum

Question 3

Which fallacy occurs when we confuse temporal with causal relations?

A)equivocation
B)false cause
C)amphiboly
D)division

Answer 3

false cause

Question 4

Which fallacy is committed when a statement's meaning is indeterminate?

A)equivocation
B)division
C)false cause
D)amphiboly

Question 5

Which other fallacy of ambiguity is the reverse of the fallacy of division?

A)equivocation
B)amphiboly
C)composition
D)accent

Question 6

"I often see dogs in the park.You have a dog; therefore, I often see your dog in the park."
This commits the fallacy of:

A)equivocation
B)accent
C)false cause
D)none of the above

Question 7

An abusive ad hominem is present whenever:

A)an insulting remark is made in place of reason in an argument
B)one speaker seeks to degrade another during an argument
C)people begin screaming epithets at each other
D)words that are hateful or malicious are used

Question 8

Defense lawyers sometimes explain the actions of a client by referring to the client's own mistreatment as a child.What fallacy may be committed by such explanations?

A)appeal to the populace
B)appeal to force
C)appeal to pity
D)irrelevant conclusion

Question 9

"I know there are angels! There must be: no one can prove that they don't exist!" This commits the fallacy of:

A)irrelevant conclusion
B)argument from ignorance
C)appeal to inappropriate authority
D)appeal to emotion

Question 10

"Why is it always the case that stores run out of the sale items just before the sale paper arrives, so that I can't ever buy what's on sale?
"
What fallacy is committed in this example?

A)false cause
B)accident
C)begging the question
D)complex question

Question 11

Fallacies of accident arise when a generalization has some exceptions.

Question 12

Every circular argument commits the fallacy of begging the question.

Question 13

The fallacy of amphiboly confuses the several meanings of a word.

Question 14

False cause is one of the fallacies of relevance.

Question 15

The fallacy of equivocation occurs when something is taken out of context and
misconstrued.

Question 16

Matching:

-The fallacy of complex question is one of the fallacies of ________.

A)ambiguity
B)presumption
C)Relevance

Question 17

Matching:

-The petitio principii assumes the ________ of what it seeks to prove.

A)falsity
B)truth
C)ambiguity

Question 18

Matching:

-In the fallacy of ________, we reason from the attributes of the parts to the attributes of the whole.

A)composition
B)division
C)hasty generalization

Question 19

Matching:

-If an ad hominem argument accuses someone of prejudice because of his race and contends that he is therefore not a good source of information, it is a(n) ________ ad
hominem.

A)abusive
B)circumstantial
C)honest

Question 20

Matching:

-When we presume the applicability of a generalization to an individual case, we commit the fallacy of ________.

A)hasty generalization
B)composition
C)accident