Fallacies
If you get this question wrong, your biggest teammate will hit you.
What is ad baculum?
The predicate of the conclusion.
The Major Term.
Some fruits are apples.
What is an I?
What is material?
The philosophical approach that centers around doubt.
What is skepticism?
"What's the highest form of animal life?" "The giraffe."
What is equivocation.
The type of syllogism in which the Middle Term is the Cause of the conclusion.
What is a Propter Quid syllogism?
If an A is True, an O is ___.
What is false?
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792), was a habitual gambler. Not wanting to be pulled away from the card table, he would have his servants bring him slices of meat between two pieces of bread. Over time, the meal gained both popularity and his name. His relationship to the sandwich I ate for lunch is this.
What is "trick question: you didn't eat a sandwich for lunch today".
Just kidding.
What is remote efficient cause?
What is Epistemology.
You must either hate capitalism or love it.
What is Black and White (or Either/Or)?
The rule violated in the following syllogism:
Compassion is a virtue.
Justice is not compassion.
Therefore justice is not a virtue.
What is Illicit Major (or Rule 4)?
All men are not mortal.
What is an O? (or Tricky O)
The remotest formal cause of a sandwich.
What is being?
This type of person believes that although there are many individual entities collectively known by the name "sandwich", there is no common nature uniting them, but merely a convention of language.
What is a nominalist?
Do you think we should keep playing these useless games?
What is Complex Question?
("Begging the Question" is extra wrong)
The name for this kind of Hypothetical Syllogism:
If spiders are insects, then I'll be a monkey's uncle
If I'll be a monkey's uncle, I'll belong in a zoo or the jungle
Therefore, If spiders are insects, then I'll belong in a zoo or the jungle.
What is a Pure Hypothetical?
Before a conversion, an I was either a __ or a __.
What is I or A?
Robins can fly because they're birds.
What is "the Logical because"?
As opposed to the Platonic school, this branch of philosophy posits that natures of things 1) do exist, and 2) exist within things themselves.
What is Aristotelian (or Moderate) Realism?
"Why are you putting all those little pieces of lemon around your yard?" "To keep the alligators away" "But there are no alligators within a thousand miles of here." "See? It works."
What is Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc?
The valid syllogism constructed around the following quotation, including the assumed premise.
"He would not take the crown. Therefore 'tis certain he was not ambitious."
(Shakespeare, Julius Caesar. 111,2)
No [one who would not take the crown] is [one who was ambitious]
All [he] is [one who would not take the crown]
Therefore no [he] is [one who was ambitious]
The contradictory statement to:
"All evil is not rooted in the love of money."
What is "All [evil] is [twi rooted in the love of money]"
Both of these are "God".
What are the Remote(st) Efficient Cause and the Remote(st) Final Cause?
This branch of philosophy posits that the only things that can be known properly are those things which we understand a priori, such as the three-sideness of a triangle, without recourse to sense experience.
What is Rationalism?