PHIL 105-Fallacies UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers

PHIL 105-Fallacies UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Fallacies of Relevance - CORRECT ANSWER - When one or more of the premises in the
argument is irrelevant or unrelated to the conclusion


Personal Attack - CORRECT ANSWER - instead of presenting a logical counter argument,
one attacks the person who presented the argument


Appeal to Force - CORRECT ANSWER - when you use or threaten to use force to get
someone to back down, accept your position


Appeal to Pity - CORRECT ANSWER - someone invokes pity in an argument, but is not
relevant to the situation


Popular Appeal - CORRECT ANSWER - One appeals to popular opinion to support their
conclusion


Appeal to Ignorance - CORRECT ANSWER - one claims that something is true only
because it has not been proven false


Hasty Generalization - CORRECT ANSWER - one makes a universal claim based on a
sample that is either too small, or u representative


Straw Man - CORRECT ANSWER - one misrepresents their opponents argument in order
to make it seem easier to refute


Red Herring - CORRECT ANSWER - when someone sidetracks an argument by bringing
up a different unrelated topic