Chapter 5
The fallacy of hasty conclusion is committed when we draw a conclusion from _______.
relevant but insufficient evidence
The words "freedom, love, democracy, springtime, and peace" give what kind of emotive charge?
Positive
When we accept a conclusion based on a sample that is too small to be reliable measure of the population from which it was drawn we are guilty of committing what fallacy?
Small Sample Fallacy
An argument may have how many premises?
What is one or more
When an action is objected to on the grounds that once it is taken, another action, and then perhaps still another, is bound to be taken is committing what fallacy?
Who is the fallacy of slippery slope?
What is true of the fallacy of hasty conclusion?
It has two concrete forms
If the purpose of a sentence is to inform or to state a fact, some of its words must refer to things, events, or properties of one kind or another. These words must thus have what is commonly called _______.
Cognitive Meaning
the fallacy of unrepresentative sample
What is the purpose of suppressed evidence?
What is to sharpen one's ability to spot cases in which evidence is being passed over?
To accept a claim for fear of the consequences of not accepting is what fallacy.
What is the fallacy appeal to fear?
Questionable analogy is also referred to as _______.
Faulty Comparison
Good writers or speakers try to choose the _______ best suited to their audience, as students are taught to do in writing classes.
tone
One of the major problems with statistics is that their margin of error is often greater than the "Significant" differences they report. This is related to what fallacy?
Questionable statistics.
Guilt by association means judging a person based on the.
What is the company they keep?
When we desire to believe something, it's tempting to take the absence of evidence as justification for believing that it is true. This is committing what fallacy?
What is the fallacy of appeal to ignorance?
The biggest problem with polls is the difficulty of _______.
Tapping a truly representative sample.
Slanting is a form of _______.
Misrepresentation
When deciding whether someone has or has not committed a fallacy, we don't want to ____________.
What is quibble?
From a strictly logical perspective, the only criterion for a successful argument is ______________
What is the quality of the argument itself?
Mistaking a token gesture or offering a token gesture in lieu of something more concrete is what fallacy?
What is the fallacy of tokenism?
What does ergo propter hoc literally mean?
after this, therefore because of this
Give an example of a sexist term
businessman, congressman, stewardess, waitress etc.
Accusing someone of inconsistency who has changed his mind about the lack of creativity of women in the light of contrary evidence is an example of what fallacy?
What is False charge of fallacy?
A fallacy that has been the stock-in-trade of advertisers over the years is
What is straw man?
What fallacy is committed when we present arguments that contain self-contradictory statements or statements that contradict each other?
What is the fallacy of inconsistency?