Fallacies
When differences between items being compared are major and the similarities are minor.
What is a weak analogy?
What is amplification?
answer in an addition problem.
What is the sum?
The capital of Australia.
What is Canberra?
What is the aqueous humor?
Concluding that since A happened before B, A must have caused B.
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.
This is a writing tool that makes an explicit comparison of two things different in kind but sharing a common characteristic. It uses words such as "like" or "as" to make the comparison.
What is a simile?
The bottom number in a fraction
What is the denominator?
The ocean to the south and west of Australia.
What is the Indian Ocean?
The opening in the center of the iris that changes size as the amount of light entering the eye changes.
What is the pupil?
Reasoning that concludes that what is true of part of something must be true for the entire thing.
What is part-to-whole fallacy?
The opening of an essay or speech, placed in the beginning of the introduction. The purpose is to make involve the the audience so they want to listen to the essay.
The answer in a division problem?
What is a quotient?
The capital of New Zealand.
What is Wellington?
The clear, dome shaped tissue covering the front of the eye.
What is the cornea?
When someone asks 2 questions, but one is hidden behind the other.
What is a loaded question fallacy?
The response to an opposing argument an why it is inadequate.
What is refutation?
What is the minuend?
The island territory of Australia.
What is Tasmania?
This transmits electrical impulses of visual information from the retina to the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
Dismissing someone's viewpoint on an issue because the person has been inconsistent in that very thing.
What is tu quoque fallacy?
What is antithesis?
the small number at the top shown here
52
What is an exponent?
(in this case squared or to the 2nd power)
The ocean to the east of Australia and surrounding New Zealand.
What is the South Pacific Ocean? (or just Pacific)
The light sensitive tissue that lines the back of the eye.
What is the retina?