N5 Fallacies Quiz

He shops at Waitrose? He must be posh or dumb. I know he's not posh so he must not be very clever.

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Attacking the Person Fallacy

• False Dilemma Fallacy

• Illegitimate Appeal to Authority

If you get a child, that's it! No more nights out with your friends or any other fun. Are you really sure you want that?

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Attacking the Person Fallacy

• False Dilemma Fallacy

• Illegitimate Appeal to Authority

Trust me, you don't want to order pizza for dinner. Unless you want to die from obesity? Because that's what's gonna happen eventually.

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Attacking the Person Fallacy

• False Dilemma Fallacy

• Illegitimate Appeal to Authority

Did you hear what the bartender said? He said food banks are a scam where they sell your donations just to make money for themselves. I'm not taken my tinned food to them anymore!

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Attacking the Person Fallacy

• False Dilemma Fallacy

• Illegitimate Appeal to Authority

Did you hear what the bartender said? He told me a martini should always be served stirred, not shaken. But have you seen the car he drives? He's clearly an idiot.

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Attacking the Person Fallacy

• False Dilemma Fallacy

• Illegitimate Appeal to Authority

So you don't want to go on holiday in France? Guess that means we're going to Italy.

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Attacking the Person Fallacy

• False Dilemma Fallacy

• Illegitimate Appeal to Authority

Get this, Susan tried to tell me Italy is a great holiday destination! She failed her philosophy exam last year and now she thinks I'm going to trust her advice?

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Attacking the Person Fallacy

• False Dilemma Fallacy

• Illegitimate Appeal to Authority

This shampoo is going to cure your sore back. My dentist told me so.

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Attacking the Person Fallacy

• False Dilemma Fallacy

• Illegitimate Appeal to Authority

What's wrong with this explanation of a slippery slope fallacy?

"A slippery slope fallacy is an argument where it is claimed that taking a first step will inevitably lead to some undesirable consequences and that the first step should therefore not be taken".

• A fallacy is not an argument.

• It should be added that there is no evidence given that the undesirable consequences will in fact follow from the first step to be a slippery slope fallacy.

• It should be added that there is no evidence given that the consequences are in fact undesirable to be a slippery slope fallacy.

• It is missing the claim that in a slippery slope fallacy, we might decide to accept the undesirable consequences and take the first step anyway.

Which conclusion would make this a false dilemma fallacy?

"You either like maths or philosophy...."

• You don't like either so you must like something else

• You don't like math so you must not like philosophy either

• You don't like maths so you must like philosophy

• You like maths so you must like philosophy as well