Arguments
Give the conclusion. My horse loves oats. My horse is also a mustang. Therefore....
All mustangs love oats.
The circles in a Venn diagram represent what?
Classes or categories
This fallacy repackages the claim as “evidence” for the claim.
Begging The Question
Arguments that are so weak that they fail to raise the probability of their conclusions
Induction Fallacy
What are the three formal fallacies?
Affirming the consequent, denying the antecedent, and the undistributed middle
Finish the statement with a conclusion based on the type of argument. Vegetarians do not eat meat. Bob doesn't eat meat.
Bob is a vegetarian.
The term that occurs only in the premises of a categorical syllogism is which term?
Middle term
This term is commonly used in place of “relevance fallacies”
Red Herring
When somebody tells us we should do something because everybody else is doing it, that is an example of
Bandwagon Fallacy
What type of amphiboly is the Equivocation fallacy related to?
Semantic ambiguity
Finish the statement with a conclusion based on the type of argument. All people in New England are Patriots fans. I live in New England.
I am a Pats fan
What is it called when you switch the places of subject and predicate terms and replace both terms with complimentary terms
Contraposition
Relevance Fallacies that do not fit into the other categories are categorized as..”
Irrelevant Conclusion
Using popular belief as evidence for a claim is an example of this Induction Fallacy.
Mistaken Appeal to Popularity Fallacy
Which fallacy occurs when someone fails to take these underlying probabilities into account?
Overlooking Prior Probabilities
Deductive or Inductive?
Is either illogical, valid, or sound.
Deductive
Translate: Anything that's an alligator is a reptile” into a standard form claim
All [alligators] are [reptiles]
“I know that the Earth is flat. If you don’t believe me, then you should do your own research” is an example of this relevance fallacy.
Misplacing the Burden of Proof
This Induction Fallacy translates to “After this, therefore because of it”
Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
Believing that the past performance of independent events will have an effect on a further independent event is called what?
Gambler’s fallacy
Deductive or Inductive?
Moves from specific to general.
Inductive
Translate: “Socrates is a Greek” into a standard form claim
All [people identical with Socrates] are [Greeks]
What relevance fallacy was Donald Trump using when he said this about his former political opponent?
“This guy takes a pancake and he’s shoving it in his mouth. It’s disgusting. Do you want that for your president? I don’t think so.”
Argumentum Ad Hominem
“If Colorado Springs legalizes commercial Marijuana, then all of our parks will all become homeless camps.” is an a example of
Slippery Slope
What is it called when you mistakenly think that the percentage of Bs that are As is the same as the percentage of As that are Bs
Faulty inductive conversion