Socrates and you
My claim to fame is that I was a student of Socrates.
Who is Plato?
Man Smoking talking to a younger man: "You really shouldn't start smoking, it's a bad habit."
What is Tu Quoque?
How can you criticize people for gambling? It's legal in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, as well as our state!
What is "Is Ought Fallacy"?
All stars are in orbit in outer space. LeBron James is a star. Therefore, LeBron is in orbit in outer space.
What is Equivocation?
Repetition of initial consonant sounds in close proximity.
What is alliteration?
You buy me taken apart,
To redo what has been undone;
Four of my pieces have one sharp corner,
The rest of them have none.
What am I?
What is a puzzle?
From the German Christmas carol "O Tannenbaum," what is a tannenbaum?
What is a Christmas or Fir tree?
Socrates says that it's the technique that people us to get other people to believe something that they otherwise might not. it is used widely in war times.
What is propaganda?
Answer this question correctly, or you will be tarred and feathered!
What is Appeal to Fear?
Asking that your opponent assumes the very thing that one is trying to prove.
What is Begging the Question?
A fallacy of clarity that rests on the improper use of emphasis on certain words or phrases.
What is Fallacy of Accent?
The substitution of part of an object for the whole or vice versa, and the substitution of a species for a genus, or vice versa.
What is synecdoche?
Morgan was making apricot jam. She put all the apricots in the pot and stirred them up. Then she remembered she had to add 1 ounce of lemon juice for every two apricots! How did she figure out how much lemon juice to put?
What is: She counted the pits!
"I'll Be There For You" is the theme song for which international hit TV show?
What is Friends?
A commonly recognized bad type of argument.
What is a fallacy?
A red herring argument that claims that since a a proposition cannot be disproved, it therefore must be true or likely.
What is Appeal to Ignorance?
Reasoning that restates the conclusion in new words in order to justify that conclusion. Grace is having trouble writing because she has writer's block.
What is Circular Reasoning?
It's not that I don't admire her; I just think she is a miserable, hateful, person.
What is Distinction Without a Difference?
"Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is an example of me.
What is an idiom?
Kirk died before he moved to Europe. Shortly after, Tracy died at sea. Nobody mourned, In fact, everyone was absolutey delighted.
Why?
What is "They were hurricanes."
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were the what?
What is "The Beatles"?
It's the term used to define "to provide rational reasons for or against an idea or action".
What is to argue?
DAILY DOUBLE!
An ad fontem argument that states that an idea of belief should be discounted simply because of its source or origin.
This argument states that there are only two possible options, when, in fact, other possibilities may exist.
What is Bifurcation? (False Dilemna)
A fallacy of clarity that makes a linguistic distinction between two things that are actually not different from each other.
What is Distinction without a Difference?
"The weeping of tears," "I saw it with my own eyes," and "true fact" are all examples of this figure of speech that uses intentional redundancy.
What is a pleonasm?
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What Is The Next Letter In The Sequence?
What is J (this is a sequential list of consonants).
Whose tombstone credits him with being the "author of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom" and as "Founder of the University of Virginia", but does not mention that he was the third President of the United States?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Someone who makes fallacious arguments and gains popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people.
What is a demagogue?
A red herring argument that distracts by introducing a related but different issue and making a case for the NEW issue, not the original one.
What is Irrelevant Thesis?
Nolan wants to grow his hair long. His Mom wants it short. They compromise and he gets a mullet.
What is the Fallacy of Moderation?
Real Newspaper Headline: Senator Gifford Wins on Budget, But More Lies Ahead. (name the fallacy)
What is Fallacy of Accent?
"A government of the people, by the people, for the people...is an example of when 2 or more phrases repeat the same parts of speech patterns in a similar order for a similar purpose.
What is Parallelism?
DAILY DOUBLE!
Two women and two doctors walk into an ice cream parlor. They each order an ice cream cone. When their ice creams come, there is only 1 strawberry,1 chocolate and 1 vanilla.
How come they didn't complain?
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded what groundbreaking computer company?
What is Apple? If your parents bought 1,000.00 in shares in 1985, they would have 327,938.60 today.