Aice thinking skills review questions and
answers A+ Rated
Begging the Question/Circular Reasoning - -The conclusion was concluded in
the premise
- Equivocation or Ambiguity - -Using a double meaning or ambiguity of
language to mislead or misrepresent the truth
- straw man fallacy - -To counter a position by attacking a different position
- Tu Quoque Fallacy - -An attempt to justify a wrong action because
someone else does it too
- Bandwagon/appeal to popularity - -Assumption that the opinion of the
majority is always valid; if everyone believes it you should too
- Red Herring - -A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert
attention from the subject under discussion
- Appeal to Authority - -The opinion or position of an authority figure or
institution of authority in place of an actual argument
- Appeal to Emotion - -Attempts to arouse the emotions of its audience in
order to gain acceptance of its conclusions
- Slippery Slope - -The argument that a position is not consistent or tenable
because accepting the position means that the extreme of the position must
also be accepted
- No True Scotsman - -Making an appeal to "purity" as a way to dismiss
relevant criticisms or flaws of an argument
- False dichotomy/ black or white fallacy - -You are only presented two
alternative states as the only possibilities when in fact more possibilities
exist
- Loaded question - -A question that has a presumption built into it so that it
can't be answered without appearing guilty
- Ad Hominen Fallacy - -a statement that attempts to counter an argument
by criticizing the person who made it
- false cause fallacy - -Using correlation incorrectly to assign a cause
answers A+ Rated
Begging the Question/Circular Reasoning - -The conclusion was concluded in
the premise
- Equivocation or Ambiguity - -Using a double meaning or ambiguity of
language to mislead or misrepresent the truth
- straw man fallacy - -To counter a position by attacking a different position
- Tu Quoque Fallacy - -An attempt to justify a wrong action because
someone else does it too
- Bandwagon/appeal to popularity - -Assumption that the opinion of the
majority is always valid; if everyone believes it you should too
- Red Herring - -A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert
attention from the subject under discussion
- Appeal to Authority - -The opinion or position of an authority figure or
institution of authority in place of an actual argument
- Appeal to Emotion - -Attempts to arouse the emotions of its audience in
order to gain acceptance of its conclusions
- Slippery Slope - -The argument that a position is not consistent or tenable
because accepting the position means that the extreme of the position must
also be accepted
- No True Scotsman - -Making an appeal to "purity" as a way to dismiss
relevant criticisms or flaws of an argument
- False dichotomy/ black or white fallacy - -You are only presented two
alternative states as the only possibilities when in fact more possibilities
exist
- Loaded question - -A question that has a presumption built into it so that it
can't be answered without appearing guilty
- Ad Hominen Fallacy - -a statement that attempts to counter an argument
by criticizing the person who made it
- false cause fallacy - -Using correlation incorrectly to assign a cause
