Fallacies and Philosophical Concepts

What is the Fallacy of Irrelevance?

• Fallacies in which the premises are irrelevant to the conclusion

• Arguments that depend on unstated and unsupported assumptions

• Errors that occur with ambiguous words or phrases

• Arguments that resort to force to push the acceptance of a conclusion

What is the Fallacy of Presumption?

• Fallacies in which the premises are irrelevant to the conclusion

• Arguments that depend on unstated and unsupported assumptions

• Errors that occur with ambiguous words or phrases

• Arguments that resort to force to push the acceptance of a conclusion

What is the Fallacy of Ambiguity?

• Fallacies in which the premises are irrelevant to the conclusion

• Arguments that depend on unstated and unsupported assumptions

• Errors that occur with ambiguous words or phrases

• Arguments that resort to force to push the acceptance of a conclusion

What is the Argumentum ad Baculum fallacy?

• Fallacy of irrelevant premises

• Fallacy of presumption

• Fallacy of ambiguity

• Resorting to force to push the acceptance of a conclusion

What is the Argumentum ad Hominem fallacy?

• Fallacy of irrelevant premises

• Fallacy of presumption

• Fallacy of ambiguity

• Attacking the character of the person making the argument

What is the Argumentum Ignorantiam fallacy?

• Fallacy of irrelevant premises

• Fallacy of presumption

• Fallacy of ambiguity

• Claiming something is true/false based on lack of evidence

What is the Argumentum Misericordiam fallacy?

• Fallacy of irrelevant premises

• Fallacy of presumption

• Fallacy of ambiguity

• Appealing to someone's unfortunate circumstance

What are facts?

• Statements that are observed to be real or truthful

• Statements that are not evidently or immediately known to be true

• Statements about the world or reality

• Statements that are irrelevant to the conclusion

What is cosmocentric?

• The ancient period in the history of Philosophy

• An opposing element to water

• The basic component of everything

• The belief that everything in the universe has a beginning and an ending

Who thought that fire is the basic component of everything?

• Jeremy Bentham

• Leucippus

• Democritus

• Heraclitus