Fallacy Practice Quiz
Trish Giral
Created on June 1, 2022
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Fallacy Practice
Something is true because person “A” an authority claims it to be true.
Appeal to Authority
Question 1/10
Appeal to Tradition
Bandwagon
The defendant is obviously guilty because the nurse testified that he was lying.
Question 2/10
Fallacy of Composition
Appeal to Authority
Appeal to Ignorance
Putting two or more “good” things together does not necessarily mean they will be good together?
Fallacy of Composition
Question 3/10
Appeal to Tradition
Extravagent Hypothesis
With the U.S. unemployment rates at 10.5%, every state has unemployment problems.
Question 4/10
Slippery Slope
False Analogy
Fallacy of Division
What is true for the whole has to be true for any of the pieces of the whole as well.
Claiming something is true or right because it has always been that way.
Bandwagon Appeal
Question 5/10
Appeal to Tradition
Either/or Fallacy
After 20 years of teaching, Mrs. Smith is asked why she still lectures almost exclusively. She replies, that's the way I have always taught.
Question 6/10
Hasty Generalization
Appeal to Tradition
Fallacy of Composition
Uses lack of evidence (for or against) as the basis of the eargument. For example, if something can’t be disproven, it must be true!
Extravagant Hypothesis
Question 7/10
Fallacy of Division
Appeal to Ignorance
The similarities between the two things are not substantial enough to apply to the other.
Question 8/10
Hasty Generalization
False Analogy
Slippery Slope
Formulating a complex or unlikely explanation for an event when a simpler explanation would do.
Hasty Generalization
Question 9/10
Extravagant Hypothesis
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
There is Premise X. Premise X must be true because of Premise X
Question 10/10
Circular reasoning
Either/Or Fallacy
Bandwagon Appeal
Occurs when a conclusion is drawn from a sample that is too small or selective to represent the subject accurately.
Extravagant Hypothesis
Question 11/1
Fallacy of Division
Hasty Generalization
Assuming that because "B" follows "A," "A" must have caused "B." This is an easy fallacy to assume because this couldhappen, but we cannot always assume this happens.
Question 8/10
Hasty Generalization
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Slippery Slope
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