PHI 105 Topic 4 Quiz; Fallacies in Everyday Life Quiz (Spring22)

1. Question:“If you believe in global warming you just believe everything you are told or don’t think for yourself.” 2. Question:This is an appeal to popularity. It is saying that something must be right because everybody is doing it. 3. Question: “There is no compelling evidence that UFOs do not exist. Therefore, UFOs exist.” 4. Question: “There are two types of students- the student who works really hard and does well and the student who does nothing and fails.” 5. Question: “I can't help but think that you are the cause of this problem; we never had any problem within this department until you started working here.” 6. Question:“The defendant is obviously guilty because the polygraph administrator testified that he was lying.” 7. Question:Once someone asks for one thing and receives it, they will not stop until they have taken it all. 8. Question:Deciding something just because this is the way we have always done it is committing this fallacy. 9. Question:Putting two or more good things together does not necessarily mean they will be good together. 10. Question:This means that the similarities between the two things being compared are not substantial enough to assume that another characteristic of one of them probably applies to the other.