Vocabulary
The science of reasoning to find right and wrong
Logic
Arguing against an oversimplified or otherwise distorted version of your opponents argument
Straw man fallacy
Determining when you should leave for work based upon traffic patterns
inductive reasoning
Wrote the Book of Truth and made the Platonist Academy of the Thought.
Plato
The process of reasoning from one or more statements to reach a logical conclusion
Deductive reasoning
If we allow the children to choose the movie this time, they are going to expect to be able to choose the school they go to or the doctors they visit.
Slippery slope
It is dangerous to drive on icy streets, the streets are icy now, it is dangerous to drive
deductive reasoning
Father of western philosophy
Socrates
Involves drawing a general conclusion from a set of specific observations
Inductive reasoning
If my brother likes to eat a lot of pizza and French fries, and he is healthy, I can say that pizza and French fries are healthy and don't really make a person fat.
Hasty generalization
Acute angles are less than 90 degrees. This angle is 40 degrees, so it must be an acute angle.
Deductive reasoning
The originator of Ethos, Logos, Pathos.
Aristotle
A mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument.
Fallacy
You're argument is weak because your hair is red.
ad hominem
Every time you start to eat peanuts you start to cough. You are allergic to peanuts.
Inductive reasoning
He is key contribution lies in his focus on the formal and systematic character of logic as a “strongly proven” doctrine. He insists that formal logic should abstract from all content of knowledge and deal only with our faculty of understanding and our forms of thought. who is this man?
This fallacy occurs when, instead of addressing someone's argument or position, you irrelevantly attack the person or some aspect of the person who is making the argument
Ad hominem
When your mom gets your phone bill and you have gone over the limit, you begin talking to her about how hard your math class is and how well you did on a test today.
Red herring
Michael just moved here from Chicago. Michael has red hair, all people from Chicago have red hair.
Inductive reasoning
George Boole