WGU D265 CRITICAL THINKING AND EVIDENCE SECTION 4
MAKING A CLAIM LESSON 1-3 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
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Term
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc Fallcay:
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occurs when someone occurs when one confuses
attacks the arguer instead of
proximity in time with causation.
the argument
occurs when an arguer
by understanding the
critiques the origin of a claim
meanings of the words
or argument rather than the
involved.
claim or argument itself.
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,Term
Appeal to Unqualified/False Authority:
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trusting an authority on
A fallacy that uses an
opponent's one subject to speak on
inability to disprove a another
conclusion as subject about which they
proof of the conclusion's have no real expertise
correctness.
red herring, ad hominem, is one in which the premises,
genetic fallacy, straw figure, even if true, fail to give probable
irrelevant support to its conclusion.
appeals, equivocation
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Term
Causal Slippery Slope Fallacy:
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when one generalizes about a group of people or things or events, but one does so
too quickly and without enough evidence or with too small of a sample from that
group.
, when one decides that someone else must prove them wrong when in
reality they are the person with the burden of proof
when someone already knows which conclusion they'd like to prove
and then selects evidence which supports that conclusion
when one assumes that just because each individual conditional
statement is probable, the conditional that links the first event to the
last event is also
probable.
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Definition
when someone (willfully or mistakenly) misinterprets someone
else's argument or position.
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hasty generalization: The Texas Sharpshooter fallacy:
Irrelevant Appeal: Straw man fallacy:
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MAKING A CLAIM LESSON 1-3 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
100% Correct 23
Incorrect 0
1 of 23
Term
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc Fallcay:
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occurs when someone occurs when one confuses
attacks the arguer instead of
proximity in time with causation.
the argument
occurs when an arguer
by understanding the
critiques the origin of a claim
meanings of the words
or argument rather than the
involved.
claim or argument itself.
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2 of 23
,Term
Appeal to Unqualified/False Authority:
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trusting an authority on
A fallacy that uses an
opponent's one subject to speak on
inability to disprove a another
conclusion as subject about which they
proof of the conclusion's have no real expertise
correctness.
red herring, ad hominem, is one in which the premises,
genetic fallacy, straw figure, even if true, fail to give probable
irrelevant support to its conclusion.
appeals, equivocation
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Term
Causal Slippery Slope Fallacy:
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when one generalizes about a group of people or things or events, but one does so
too quickly and without enough evidence or with too small of a sample from that
group.
, when one decides that someone else must prove them wrong when in
reality they are the person with the burden of proof
when someone already knows which conclusion they'd like to prove
and then selects evidence which supports that conclusion
when one assumes that just because each individual conditional
statement is probable, the conditional that links the first event to the
last event is also
probable.
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Definition
when someone (willfully or mistakenly) misinterprets someone
else's argument or position.
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hasty generalization: The Texas Sharpshooter fallacy:
Irrelevant Appeal: Straw man fallacy:
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