An error of reasoning, when someone adopts a position or tries to persuade someone else to adopt a position based on a bad piece of reasoning.
What is a logical fallacy?
100
All of the other girls like the new kind of icecream, so it must be really good!
What is Appeal to Popularity?
100
59% of people view Harry Potter as being better than Twilight.
What is Logos?
100
True or False: If someone appeals to novelty, they are trying to show that the new things should be embraced?
False.
200
A fallacy that occurs when it is assumed that something is better or correct because it is new.
What is an Appeal to Novelty?
200
If we get rid of the dress code, girls are going to start wearing things that aren't at all appropriate for young girls to wear, and next thing you know they're going to feel so grown up and rebellious that they're going to drop out of school
What is Slippery Slope?
200
Sherlock Holmes once said that "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains must be true."
What is Ethos?
200
True or False: The Slippery Slope is a direct slope that leads straight to a believable destination.
False.
300
A fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must ultimately follow from another.
What is the Slippery Slope?
300
The school board always makes the best decisions.
What is an Absolute?
300
A calamity is at hand: the minds of our nations children are at risk!
What is Pathos?
300
Popularity suggests an idea that must be correct because others like it.
True.
400
An extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbolic language?
400
If elected, he will solve all economic crises.
What is hyperbolic language?
400
All 10 of the students involved enjoyed the new icecream.
What is Logos?
400
True or False: A hyperbole is exaggeration.
True.
500
Relates to classics and age.
What is Antiquity?
500
Name all of the Faults of Persuasion.
What are Popularity, Antiquity, Novelty, Slippery Slope, Hyperbole, and Absolutes?
500
For example, one of the teachers was heard saying that she didn't believe that any of the students were responsible for the traffic delay; they were innocent bystanders, made scapegoats by others who wished for them to get in trouble.
What is Ethos/Pathos?
500
True or false: Appeal to Antiquity is strongest when based in Logos.