Fallacies
Deductive/Inductive
Categorical Propositions
Venn Diagrams
Operations
100
When an arguer threatens harm to someone if they don't accept the conclusion.
What is appeal to the stick? (Also acceptable: What is argumentum ad baculum)
100
This describes an inductive argument where the conclusion has a strong probability of being true, given the truth of the premises.
What is strong?
100
"All foxes are animals who say wa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow!" is a categorical proposition whose quantity is this.
What is universal?
100
Shading in a Venn diagram represents this.
What is emptiness? (Also acceptable: What is lack of existence?)
100
This operation consists in switching the subject term and predicate term.
What is conversion?
200
An example of this fallacy would be "Everyone listens to Beyonce. You should listen to Beyonce, too."
What is the bandwagon argument?
200
If an inductive argument is weak, then it cannot also be this.
What is cogent?
200
"All foxes are animals who say a-hee-ahee ha-hee!" is a categorical proposition whose quality is this.
What is affirmative?
200
An "X" in a Venn Diagram represents that this exists in a region.
What is at least one thing?
200
In contraposition, the subject term and predicate term are replaced with these.
What are their term complements?
300
An example of this fallacy would be: "We should not allow water guns at CTY. If we allow water guns at CTY then this would lead to people getting soaking wet. This would mean people could get pneumonia. The result would be thousands of sick students."
What is the slippery slope fallacy?
300
A deductive argument is this when the premises are actually true and the truth of the premises guarantees the truth of the conclusion.
What is sound?
300
Given the Boolean standpoint, the relationship between an A and an E categorical proposition is this.
What is logically undetermined?
300
If two propositions must have opposite truth values, they are this.
What is contradictory?
300
This operation requires changing the quality.
What is obversion?
400
Either you think the US is the best soccer team ever or you are a traitor to the US. Since you don't think the US is the best soccer team, you must be a traitor!
What is a false dichotomy?
400
This is when, if the premises to a deductive argument are true, then the conclusion cannot be false.
What is validity?
400
For the subject term, "CTY students", "non-CTY students" is an example of this.
What is a term complement?
400
An argument from a single premise to a conclusion is this.
What is an immediate inference?
400
Changing "No members of Gryffindor are muggles" into "All members of Gryffindor are non-muggles" is an example of this operation.
What is obversion?
500
I read that a panda eats shoots and leaves. It must be that pandas know how to fire guns and that they do so after they've finished their meals.
What is amphiboly?
500
A deductive argument where if the premises are true, the conclusion can be false is this.
What is invalid?
500
In a universal categorical proposition, this term is distributed.
What is the subject term?
500
Reasoning from "All A are B" to "Therefore, some A are B" in the Boolean standpoint commits this.
What is the existential fallacy?
500
In obversion, changing the quality of I and O statements requires changing this, in contrast to changing the quality of A and E statements.
What is the copula?