Biases
This happens when a person has a psychological or emotional predisposition for a certain argument or solution over others.
What is a bias?
This happens when a person introduces evidence for their argument that is off topic or unrelated to the discussion. It can be done deliberately or accidentally to sway the argument.
What is a fallacy of relevance?
In this case, the person arguing has introduced a premise that is assumed to be true without evidence to that fact. This can be deliberate or accidental, but affects the truth of the claim.
What is a fallacy of presumption?
Any argument that relies on vague definitions or shifting interpretations of meaning.
What is a fallacy of ambiguity?
This is a formal flaw in the argument form or logic of an argument.
What is a fallacy?
This is the capital of England.
What is London?
This is an instinct to preserve doing things how they have been historically done.
What is a bias of Inertia or Status Quo?
This is a type of fallacy where I distract my opponent with a shocking and irrelevant point that causes them to lose track of their own points.
What is a Red Herring?
This type of argument relies on presenting two choices when the topic is actually far more complex or nuanced than that.
What is a False Dilemma?
Person A: I want this bag.
Person B: Why?
Person A: It's Christian Dior.
Person B: So?
Person A: Christian Dior is a popular brand and I want to be seen as popular.
What is the Bandwagon fallacy or Ad Populum?
This is the process of convincing someone to adopt a belief or course of action with logic and evidence.
What is an argument?
The official languages of this organization are Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
What is the United Nations?
A confirmation bias is when you tend to favor answers or arguments that support your hypothesis rather than going where the data leads. This is an example of what type of bias in effect?
What is a bias of baseline?
Three friends are arguing about what dumplings are best: xialongbao or guotie. During the argument, A tells C that B asked out C's crush yesterday. Angry, C agrees with A that guotie are best.
What is an Ad Hominem fallacy?
Cutting people is wrong! Therefore, surgery is wrong.
What is a Fallacy of Accident?
Person A: Ugh, I have got to make this work.
Person B: I say we start over.
Person A: No! We've already spent five hours on it. It'd be a waste to quit now.
What is the Sunk Cost fallacy?
This is the act of using people's emotions or biases against them. Such that they take a course of action that they would not otherwise take.
What is manipulation?
Coelocanths and Lungfish are the only extant members of this type of fish today.
What are lobe-finned fishes?
What is a bias of association?
Three friends are discussing what kind to get for lunch: guobao or rou chaofan. B and C both favor rou chaofan. A starts talking about going to his grandmother's funeral the week before and how she used to make them guobao. The friends get guobao for lunch.
What is an Appeal to Emotion?
You must do what the teacher says because they are the in charge of the class.
What is Begging the Question?
This is the phenomenon when a large group of people share the same false memory.
What is the Mandela Effect?
They are attempting to convince people that something is true not with evidence but with manipulation.
Why are fallacies undesirable?
This man is often considered to be the father of modern rhetoric and logic.
Who was Aristotle?
The Dunning-Kruger effect is an example of this type of bias.
What is a bias of self-perspective?
Person A: My mom is a teacher and she says that you use this formula to balance this equation.
Person B:Doesn't your mom teach P.E.?
Person A: So?
Person B: This is chemistry!
What is False Authority?
Person A: Have you asked Y out yet? I mean, if you ask them out, they might say yes. If you don't, you're just being a coward? You're not a coward are you?
Person B: Hey, I never said I was interested in Y!
What is the fallacy of Complex Question?
You can't trust what he says. He's a politician. He's going to say whatever serves his party best.
What is the bias of Naive Cynicism?
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What is a Genetic Fallacy?
This is the academic area of study concerned with composition, argument, and language.
What is rhetoric?
This Taiwanese man is one of only three Taiwanese to have won Academy Awards. He has won twice for Director and once to Best Foreign Film for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in 2000. (English name, please)
Who is Ang Lee?