Phil 201 Chapter 5 Review Practice Questions 2024.

Phil 201 Chapter 5 Review Practice Questions 2024. fallacy - CORRECT ANSWER an argument form that is both common and defective; a recurring mistake in reasoning Informal Fallacy - CORRECT ANSWER is detected by looking at the content of the argument. Formal Fallacy - CORRECT ANSWER results from an invalid argument form. Only deductive arguments can have formal fallacies. Genetic Fallacy - CORRECT ANSWER The fallacy of arguing that a claim is true or false solely because of its origin. ad hominem - CORRECT ANSWER The fallacy of rejecting a claim by criticizing the person who makes it rather than the claim itself Tu Quoque - CORRECT ANSWER A type of ad hominem fallacy that argues that a claim must be true (or false) just because the claimant is hypocritical composition - CORRECT ANSWER The Fallacy of arguing that what is true of the parts must be true of the whole. The error is thinking that the characteristics of the parts are somehow transferred of the whole, which is not always the case. Division - CORRECT ANSWER The fallacy of arguing that what is true of the whole must be true of the parts. The error is thinking that the characteristics of the whole must transfer to the parts Equivocation - CORRECT ANSWER The fallacy of using a word in two different senses in an argument.