TFL 333 - Critical thinking strategies (Quiz 2)

___________________ is an argument that contains a mistake in reasoning.

• A logical fallacy

• Fallacy of relevance

• Fallacy of insufficient evidence

• A fallacy

________________ are arguments

in which the premises are logically irrelevant to the conclusion

• Fallacies of insufficient evidence

• A logical fallacy

• Fallacies of relevance

• Fallacies

__________________ are arguments in which the premises, though logically

relevant to the conclusion, fail to provide sufficient evidence for the

conclusion

• Fallacies of relevance

• Fallacies

  of insufficient evidence

• Fallacies of logic

• Logical fallacies

A statement is relevant to another statement if it provides at least some

____________ for thinking that the second statement is true or false.

A statement is _____________ to another statement if it provides at least

some reason for thinking that the second statement is true.

• logically irrelevant

• negatively relevant

• positively relevant

• logically relevant

A statement is

____________ to another statement if it provides at least some reason for

thinking that the second statement is false.

• negatively relevant

• positively relevant

• logically relevant

• logically irrelevant

A statement is ________________

to another statement if it provides no reason for thinking that the second

statement is either true or false.

• logically relevant

• logically irrelevant

• positively relevant

• negatively relevant

An arguer rejects a person’s argument or

claim by attacking the person’s character rather than the person’s argument

or claim.

• Ad hominem

• To qouque

• Bandwagon Argument

• Red Herring

An arguer criticizes a person’s motivation for offering

a particular argument or claim, rather than examining the worth of

the argument or claim itself.

• Slippery Slope

• Personal attack

• Attacking the motive

• Fallacy of ignorance

An arguer rejects another person’s argument

or claim because that person is a hypocrite.

• Attacking the motive

• Look who's talking

• Personal attack

• Appeal to authority