AICE Thinking Skills Paper 2
(Questions 1-3)
C.R.A.V.E.N - -C - Credibility
R - Reliability
A - Ability to see
V - Vested interest
E - Expertise
N - Neutrality
- Circular Argument - -This restates the argument rather than actually
proving it. Ex; repeating the same argument
- Ad Populum/Bandwagon Fallacy - -These fallacies offer as support for an
argument the fact that many people already support it.
- Appeal to Pity - -A rhetorical tactic that uses sympathy in order to move an
audience.
- Appeal to Authority - -Appeals to an authority to support a position, idea,
argument, or course of action
- Straw Man - -This move oversimplifies an opponent's viewpoint and then
attacks that hollow argument.
- Non Sequitur - -A statement that does not follow logically from evidence
- Appeal to Tradition - -A fallacy which assumes that something old is
automatically better than something new
- Appeal to Ignorance - -based on the assumption that whatever has not
been proven false must be true
- Appeal to Nature - -This argument goes that because something is natural,
it must be better.
- Hasty Generalization - -A fallacy in which a conclusion is not logically
justified by sufficient or unbiased evidence.
- Red Harring Fallacy - -Trying to derail someone from an argument by
distracting the person with non relevant information.
- Post Hoc - -Blaming something that has no connection with the problem.
(Questions 1-3)
C.R.A.V.E.N - -C - Credibility
R - Reliability
A - Ability to see
V - Vested interest
E - Expertise
N - Neutrality
- Circular Argument - -This restates the argument rather than actually
proving it. Ex; repeating the same argument
- Ad Populum/Bandwagon Fallacy - -These fallacies offer as support for an
argument the fact that many people already support it.
- Appeal to Pity - -A rhetorical tactic that uses sympathy in order to move an
audience.
- Appeal to Authority - -Appeals to an authority to support a position, idea,
argument, or course of action
- Straw Man - -This move oversimplifies an opponent's viewpoint and then
attacks that hollow argument.
- Non Sequitur - -A statement that does not follow logically from evidence
- Appeal to Tradition - -A fallacy which assumes that something old is
automatically better than something new
- Appeal to Ignorance - -based on the assumption that whatever has not
been proven false must be true
- Appeal to Nature - -This argument goes that because something is natural,
it must be better.
- Hasty Generalization - -A fallacy in which a conclusion is not logically
justified by sufficient or unbiased evidence.
- Red Harring Fallacy - -Trying to derail someone from an argument by
distracting the person with non relevant information.
- Post Hoc - -Blaming something that has no connection with the problem.
