Methods of Philosophizing

It is a proposition based on personal belief, view, or judgement that cannot be verified with evidence.

• Truth

• Opinion

• Knowledge

• Conclusion

In this type of fallacy, the arguer tries to make someone believe that something is right because it is being done by everyone else.

• Post hoc

• Slippery Slope

• Agumentum ad Populum

• Argumentum ad Baculum

It is a fallacy that relates two unrelated instances only because they happened in a chronological order.

• Post hoc

• Red Herring

• Agumentum ad Populum

• Appeal to Ignorance

It opens another topic to distract the audience of what is really at stake.

• Red Herring

• Appeal to Pity

• Appeal to Ignorance

• Hasty Generalization

It uses force or threat to bring about the acceptance of a conclusion.

• Post hoc

• Hasty Generalization

• Argumentum ad Baculum

• Argumentum ad Hominem

TRUTH OR OPINION: Manila is the capital of the Philippines.

• Truth

• Opinion

TRUTH OR OPINION: A person must always consider the interests of his or her family before his or her own happiness.

• Truth

• Opinion

TRUTH OR OPINION: My sister is a selfish person because she ate the last piece of pizza pie and did not share it with me.

• Truth

• Opinion

TRUTH OR OPINION: Rodrigo Duterte is the current president of the Republic of the Philippines and the former mayor of Davao City.

• Truth

• Opinion

TRUTH OR OPINION: My school is the best school in Pasay City.

• Truth

• Opinion