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Greek or Latin
Basic Concept
Propositional Logic
Necessary and Sufficient
Fallacies
100
The ancient Greeks used this word to describe the order and harmony in the universe.
What is logos?
100
This is a set of statements in which one is supported by the others.
What is an argument?
100
Ludwig Wittgenstain used this method to define the logical functions.
What is the truth-table method?
100
This is a condition in the absence of which something else does not occur.
What is a necessary condition?
100
This fallacy is committed in the attempt to dismiss an argument by attacking the character of the person who delivers the argument.
What is Ad Hominem Fallacy?
200
This is the Latin name for "against the person."
What is ad hominem?
200
These are the statements that provide support for the conclusion of the argument.
What are the premises?
200
This term appears as the first part of a conditional statement.
What is antecedent?
200
Being a human is this type of condition for being a mammal.
What is a sufficient condition?
200
This is the name of a fallacy in which the position of an opponent is intentionally distorted or exaggerated in order to dismiss it.
What is the Strawman Fallacy?
300
The logic of categorical propositions as expressing relations between classes of objects was developed by this philosopher.
Who is Aristotle?
300
This term describes the type of support the premises of the argument provide for the conclusion.
What is VALIDITY?
300
This rule establishes an equivalence between a conditional and a conjunction or a disjunction.
What is the Rule of Implication?
300
The legal code specifies this type of conditions as a definition of a crime.
What is both necessary and jointly sufficient?
300
This fallacy is committed when a term is used with different meanings in the course of the argument.
What is equivocation?
400
This is the Latin name of the Questionable Cause Fallacy, i.e., After this, therefore because of this.
What is Post hoc, ergo propter hoc?
400
This is a valid argument with true premises.
What is a sound argument?
400
This law: ~(A & B) <-> (~A v ~B) is named after this Dutch logician.
Who is DeMorgan?
400
Modus Tollens can be used as an illustration of the general form of this type of condition.
What is a necessary condition?
400
This fallacy is committed when the argument in favor of sobriety is dismissed because it is delivered by an alcoholic.
What is the Inconsistency Ad Hominem?
500
This Latin phrase literally means "it does not follow."
What is non sequitur?
500
This is a strong inductive argument with true premises.
What is a cogent argument.
500
This is the name of the following type of valid inference: [(A-> B) & A] -> B
What is Modus Ponens?
500
Getting a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is this type of condition for getting a high-paying job.
What is neither necessary, nor sufficient?
500
This fallacy is committed when the conclusion of the argument is assumed in some form among the premises of the argument.
What is the Question-begging Fallacy?