Chapter 1
What word indicates a premise?
What is because?
What is true of authorities in one specific field?
An Ad Hominem argument is.
What is an argument against the person?
What fallacy is committed when we present arguments that contain self-contradictory statements or statements that contradict each other?
What is the fallacy of inconsistency?
An argument may have how many premises?
What is one or more
What is a dilemma that can either be true or false?
Guilt by association means judging a person based on the.
What is the company they keep?
Mistaking a token gesture or offering a token gesture in lieu of something more concrete is what fallacy?
What is the fallacy of tokenism?
What is Cogent and Fallacious?
To beg the question, means to?
What is to avoid?
Two wrongs make a right has a resemblance to the phrase.
What us "fighting fire with fire"?
When we desire to believe something, it's tempting to take the absence of evidence as justification for believing that it is true. This is committing what fallacy?
What is the fallacy of appeal to ignorance?
From a strictly logical perspective, the only criterion for a successful argument is ______________
What is the quality of the argument itself?
What is the purpose of suppressed evidence?
What is to sharpen one's ability to spot cases in which evidence is being passed over?
When we argue that some practice is acceptable because it has been done for some time we are committing what fallacy?
What is the fallacy appeal to tradition?
To accept a claim for fear of the consequences of not accepting is what fallacy.
What is the fallacy appeal to fear?
What does it mean when reasoning is valid or correct?
What is the premises we employ provide good grounds for accepting the conclusion?
A fallacy that has been the stock-in-trade of advertisers over the years is
What is straw man?
To take the absence of evidence and the absence of refutation as justification that something is true it to _______.
What is appeal to ignorance?
When an action is objected to on the grounds that once it is taken, another action, and then perhaps still another, is bound to be taken is committing what fallacy?
Who is the fallacy of slippery slope?