Lesson 7 Quiz - Logical Falacies - Carolina Museum of the Marine

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What is a fallacy?
- Anything people shouldn’t discuss in mixed company.
- An error in mathematics.
- Any error of any kind.
- A mistake in reasoning.
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Which describes the following fallacy – Argumentum ad Hominem
- A personal attack on someone masqueraded as a counter-argument.
- The one answer that is always wrong on a Latin exam.
- The one argument that is in fact not an argument.
- A phrase one can use at a cocktail party to sound erudite.
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Which describes the following fallacy – False Dilemma
- The idea that in a given situation, there are only two options when in fact there are more.
- A dilemma that is not true.
- A situation that appears to be a dilemma, but isn’t.
- The idea that cheating on exams is always wrong.
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Which describes the following fallacy – Straw man
- A character in “The Wizard of Oz.”
- A mannequin used to keep birds out of a field.
- A counterargument that distorts the original argument in order more easily to “defeat” it.
- An empty suit; a man with nothing of substance to him.
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Which describes the following fallacy – Argument from Ignorance
- The sum total of “communication” on social media.
- Any casual conversation about trivial matters.
- The only option left when facts cannot be gathered.
- Drawing a conclusion from a lack of evidence.
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Which describes the following fallacy – Slippery Slope
- The claim that if some not very important act is not taken, one’s future will be ruined.
- A popular ride at water parks.
- Where people ski.
- A hillside road in the rain.
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Which describes the following fallacy – Special Pleading
- What a lawyer does before the Supreme Court.
- Any argument advanced in situations that are highly unusual.
- Contending that moral or legal rules must be applied to everyone, but then asserting that his own situation is an exception.
- Trying to explain to an angry spouse where one was last night.
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Which describes the following fallacy – Genetic Fallacy
- A mistake in assigning paternity.
- The contention that any error or immorality in the history of any person, institution, or society destroys that entity’s credibility forever.
- Any congenital defect.
- A rare but serious condition in which a person is convinced that every man in the world is named “Gene.”
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Which describes the following fallacy – -Post Hoc ergo Propter Hoc
- What a child should say when his mother asks: “Why did you do that?”
- The dense of pawning a watch or some other item of value.
- The belief that if B follows A, then A must have caused B.
- An ancient Roman admonition against taking actions one will regret.
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Which describes the following fallacy – Ad Populum
- The idea that truth is determined by popular opinion.
- Someone who loves everyone, no matter who.
- People in the advertising trade.
- The response to a situation in which one’s community has too few people for a robust economy.
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Which describes the following fallacy – Complex Question
- A question asked by someone who doesn’t understand the argument.
- Every question in organic chemistry.
- The belief that questions in general are complex.
- An accusation framed as a question.
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