Parts of Logic
This is the definition of a premise.
What is a statement used to create a logical argument?
This is the definition of an ad hominem fallacy.
What is attacking a person instead of an argument.
"A closed book is always open" is a _____ statement
What is necessarily false?
This type of logic is based on incorrect or incomplete information.
What is abductive logic?
Tidal Stresses cause these on the moon.
What are moonquakes?
This is the definition of a conclusion.
What is a statement created by combining premisses?
This is the definition of a straw man fallacy.
"There is no intelligent life on this planet" is a _____ statement.
What is empirically true?
"Seth is a boy. Seth play games. Therefore, boys play games" is an example of.....
What is inductive logic?
This is the original purpose of goose bumps.
What is warding off predators?
This is the definition of a necessary truth.
What is something provable solely by logic?
"I know you think we should have tests every week, but you only think that because you are too stupid to understand scheduling." This is an example of...
What is an ad hominem argument?
"What goes up, must come down" is a ________ statement
What is empirically true?
"Water is made of hydrogen and oxygen. This pool is full of water. Therefore, this pool is full of hydrogen and oxygen." is an example of...
Charles Darwin described this as "the most human of all expressions of the face."
What is blushing?
This is the difference between inductive and deductive logic.
What is inductive starts at specifics and moves to generalities, and deductive starts at general truths and moves to specifics?
"Abortion is wrong because you are ripping a baby out and killing it right before it is born" is an example of...
What is a straw man argument?
"2+2=4" is a ________ statement
What is necessarily true?
"All planets must be round. There are planets outside the Milky Way. Therefore, planets outside the Milky Way are round." This is an example of...
What is abductive logic?
This Alaskan creature can hold its pee for eight months to stay warm.
What is a frog?
This is an example of a syllogism.
If A, then B.
If B, then C.
Therefore, if A, then C.
"If we tax the very rich, they will pay their employees less. If we tax the poor just a little more, though, the rich will be able to pay them better. You just don't see that because you are too involved." This argument includes which two fallacies?
What is black and white and ad hominem? (You could also argue there is a straw man argument in here, by dint of the black/ white.)
This is one argument against the existence of necessary truths.
What is the impossibility of disproving non-literal theories?
"To steal is to take the property of another without asking. Each of us has taken something from another as a child. Very young children cannot ask permission as they cannot speak. Therefore, each of us is a thief."
What is deductive logic?
Humans emit this throughout the day, in accordance with metabolic fluctuations.
What is visible light?