Logical Fallacy Test Questions and
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fallacy - ✔✔an error in reasoning
accent - ✔✔distortion in figures or facts to make the offer seem more
affordable/attractive
accent example - ✔✔the SUV costs $24999
accident - ✔✔occurs when a general rule is misapplied to a particular situation
accident example - ✔✔the Bible says, "thou shalt not kill," but every time you eat meat
you are killing an animal
ad baculum - ✔✔appeal to force- the attempt to support a belief or proposition by
threatening one who refuses to believe; the idea that someone is powerful does not
warrant the conclusion that they are right
ad baculum example - ✔✔you had better agree that the new company policy is the best
bet if you expect to keep your job; NAFTA is wrong, and if you don't vote against
NAFTA then we will vote you out of the office
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, ad hominem - ✔✔"to the man"; when, instead of attacking a person's position or
argument, the arguer attacks the person on irrelevant grounds. The attempt to discredit
an idea or proposition by pointing to some flaw or fault in the behavior or character of
the person who is the source of the idea or proposition
ad hominem examples - ✔✔you may argue that God doesn't exist, but you are just
following a fad; we should discount that Premier Klein says about taxation because he
won't be hurt by the increase; we should disregard Share B.C.'s argument becasue they
are being funded by the logging industry; you say I shouldn't drink, but you haven't
been sober for more than a year
ad ignorantiam - ✔✔arguments of this form assume that since something has not been
proven false, it is therefore true; conversely, if something has not been proven true, it is
therefore false
ad ignorantiam examples - ✔✔since you cannot prove that ghosts do not exist, they
must exist; since scientists cannot prove that global warming will occur, it probably
won't; Fred said that he is smarter than Jill, but he didn't prove it, so it must be false
ad misericordiam - ✔✔appeal for sympathy
ad misericordiam example - ✔✔pictures of starving children in Ethiopia and Kenya
ad populum - ✔✔the arguer appeals to the popularity of an idea or of an attitude as a
justification
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fallacy - ✔✔an error in reasoning
accent - ✔✔distortion in figures or facts to make the offer seem more
affordable/attractive
accent example - ✔✔the SUV costs $24999
accident - ✔✔occurs when a general rule is misapplied to a particular situation
accident example - ✔✔the Bible says, "thou shalt not kill," but every time you eat meat
you are killing an animal
ad baculum - ✔✔appeal to force- the attempt to support a belief or proposition by
threatening one who refuses to believe; the idea that someone is powerful does not
warrant the conclusion that they are right
ad baculum example - ✔✔you had better agree that the new company policy is the best
bet if you expect to keep your job; NAFTA is wrong, and if you don't vote against
NAFTA then we will vote you out of the office
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, ad hominem - ✔✔"to the man"; when, instead of attacking a person's position or
argument, the arguer attacks the person on irrelevant grounds. The attempt to discredit
an idea or proposition by pointing to some flaw or fault in the behavior or character of
the person who is the source of the idea or proposition
ad hominem examples - ✔✔you may argue that God doesn't exist, but you are just
following a fad; we should discount that Premier Klein says about taxation because he
won't be hurt by the increase; we should disregard Share B.C.'s argument becasue they
are being funded by the logging industry; you say I shouldn't drink, but you haven't
been sober for more than a year
ad ignorantiam - ✔✔arguments of this form assume that since something has not been
proven false, it is therefore true; conversely, if something has not been proven true, it is
therefore false
ad ignorantiam examples - ✔✔since you cannot prove that ghosts do not exist, they
must exist; since scientists cannot prove that global warming will occur, it probably
won't; Fred said that he is smarter than Jill, but he didn't prove it, so it must be false
ad misericordiam - ✔✔appeal for sympathy
ad misericordiam example - ✔✔pictures of starving children in Ethiopia and Kenya
ad populum - ✔✔the arguer appeals to the popularity of an idea or of an attitude as a
justification
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