Ad Fontem
Don't go all Emo on me!
Colorful Fish
Name that Fallacy
potpourri
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Arguments that simply insult the opponent.
What are ad hominem abusives?
100
This "to the stick" (ad baculum) fallacy strikes at the heart of men.
What is appeal to fear?
100
A claim that since a statement can't be disproven it must therefore be true.
What is appeal to ignorance?
100
You always say the sun rises in the east, but you're just a jerk so I doubt that's true.
What is an ad hominem abusive?
100
These are the 2 main branches of logic.
What are formal and informal logic?
200
Attacking an argument because of where it originated or the source of its origin.
What is a Genetic fallacy?
200
If I make you feel sorry for me or someone else, and offer no other arguments, I'm committing this fallacy.
What is appeal to pity?
200
Arguments that distract by measuring an opponents plan or policy against which it was never intended to accomplish.
What are irrelevant goals or functions?
200
This could be called The 2 Wrongs Don't Make a Right fallacy.
What is Tu Quoque?
200
These are the statements that "set up" an argument. They are the facts or reasons for an argument.
What are premises?
300
Double Jeopardy!!
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The main difference between Ad Hominem Circumstantial and Genetic is this.
Ad hom. circumstantial fallacies attack something about the PERSON's background.
Genetic fallacies attack where the ARGUMENT began.
So ad hom. cir. are personal. Genetic are not.
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All the kids are doing it. You should too!
What is mob appeal?
300
You made a great case! Unfortunately, it was for the wrong point!
What is irrelevant thesis?
300
You have to get this question right. I've never seen anyone get it wrong.
What is appeal to ignorance?
300
This is that which corresponds to reality.
What is truth?
400
This discredits an opponent because of his background or self-interest.
What is ad hominem circumstantial?
400
Only the smartest, most savvy and cunning students will get this one right.
What is Snob appeal?
400
Wizard of Oz Dorothy would never blow her friend over, although with these arguments it would be easy to do.
What is a straw man?
400
This toaster makes terrible coffee.
What is irrelevant functions?
400
Arguments that look like appeal to fear but really aren't. They are flat-out threats.
What are non-argumentative arguments. (Baseball bat)
500
An Ad Fontem argument that isn't directed at a person; an impersonal attack.
What is a genetic fallacy?
500
The video of the little boy lost in the terminal proved this.
What is it's possible to commit 2 fallacies at the same time. In that case, appeal to both fear and pity. (Pity because he was lost, fear because his mom was going to die of lung cancer.)
500
This group of fallacies got its name with the idea of getting dogs off the scent of whom they were tracking.
What are Red Herrings?
500
You don't think Genesis should be understood literally, do you? That's a rather old-fashioned doctrine.
What is chronological snobbery?
500
His is the only reality that is really real.
What is God's reality.