Chapter 05 Level 1 Quiz

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. Fallacies can be psychologically persuasive even though they are ________.

psychologically impotent correct incorrect

deductively valid correct incorrect

inductively valid correct incorrect

logically flawed correct incorrect

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. The fallacy of appeal to the person is rejecting a claim by ________.

using rhetoric correct incorrect

making false statements correct incorrect

ignoring the person correct incorrect

criticizing the person who makes it correct incorrect

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. Whether someone is hypocritical regarding her claims is ________.

irrelevant to the truth of the claims correct incorrect

irrelevant to her character correct incorrect

evidence that the claims are false correct incorrect

relevant only in court correct incorrect

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. Automatically rejecting a claim just because it is traditional is ________.

not reasonable correct incorrect

an appeal to tradition correct incorrect

an appeal to the masses correct incorrect

reasonable correct incorrect

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. A slippery-slope pattern of argument is fallacious when ________.

it is hypothetical correct incorrect

there is good reason to think that doing one action will inevitably lead to another undesirable action correct incorrect

there is no good reason to think that doing one action will inevitably lead to another undesirable action correct incorrect

there are only two possible results correct incorrect

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. A hasty generalization is a fallacy of ________.

acceptable premises correct incorrect

unacceptable premises correct incorrect

deduction correct incorrect

acceptable but untrue premises correct incorrect

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. In a faulty analogy, the things being compared are ________.

not sufficiently similar in relevant ways correct incorrect

sufficiently similar correct incorrect

sufficiently similar in irrelevant ways correct incorrect

complete opposites correct incorrect

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. Arguing that what is true of the parts must be true of the whole is the fallacy of ________.

division correct incorrect

composition correct incorrect

appeal to the person correct incorrect

appeal to ignorance correct incorrect

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. The use of a word in two different senses in an argument is the fallacy of ________.

appeal to the person correct incorrect

appeal to tradition correct incorrect

appeal to emotion correct incorrect

equivocation correct incorrect

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. The fallacy of composition is thinking that the characteristics of the parts are somehow transferred to the whole.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. The fallacy of division is never used in statistical arguments.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Claims are guilty by association.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Claims that come out of a "poisoned well" can be automatically dismissed.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. The fallacy of equivocation occurs whenever a word has one meaning in one premise and another meaning in another premise or the conclusion.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. In most cases a claim should be considered true if it hasn't been shown to be false.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect