Examples
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What is the Fallacy of Moderation?
Definition: Arguments that assume that just because something is a certain way, it ought to be that way.
What is the Is-Ought Fallacy?
Write the number of points that your team will wager for Final Jeopardy down on a piece of paper, and then hand it to Isaac.
SURPRISE! Let's add a little twist to the game, shall we? Isaac will spin a random online spinner for each Jeopardy team, and whatever number the spinner lands on is how many points you get added to your team's score.
Mrs. Gonzalez currently teaches these three classes.
What are Drama/Theatre, Logic, and Yearbook/Creative Writing?
This Greek philosopher makes his appearance in our textbook in our day.
Who is Socrates?
If it's not Heinz ketchup, it's not real ketchup.
What is False Dilemma?
Definition: Arguments that assume the very thing that one is trying to prove.
What is Begging the Question?
Mrs. Gonzalez will be teaching this additional class next school year.
What is Literature?
This young woman talks to a Greek philosopher in our textbook.
Who is Tiffany?
Niagara Falls is the prettiest waterfall because its beauty is unmatched by any other.
What is Circular Reasoning?
Definition: Arguments that overextend a generalization to include facts or cases that are exceptions to it.
What is the Sweeping Generalization Fallacy?
This is Mrs. Gonzalez's first name.
What is Heather?
This means "to the man" in Latin.
What is Ad Hominem?
Because California is a very populous state, each city must have hundreds of thousands of people!
What is the Fallacy of Division?
Definition: Arguments that are based on the hidden assumption that a collective whole determines that all of its parts will be like the whole.
What is the Fallacy of Division?
Mrs. Gonzalez taught at this school before she came to Founders Classical Academy.
What is a preschool/Arkansas Arts Academy?
This young man talks to a Greek philosopher in our textbook.
Who is Nate?
What is the Fallacy of Composition?
What is the difference between the Fallacy of Division and the Fallacy of Composition?
Composition takes the qualities of the parts of a whole and makes assumptions that the quality of the parts must be the same as the quality of the whole. Division takes the qualities of a whole and assumes that the individual parts of the whole must have the same quality as the whole itself.
FINAL JEOPARDY QUESTION: This is what we named the little ball of yarn that Mrs. Gonzalez brought in at the beginning of the semester.
Who/What is Tim?
Mrs. Gonzalez has lunch duty on this day.
What is Thursday?
This is the alternative name for the False Dilemma Fallacy.
What is Bifurcation?