PHI 103 After being told that she is being punished for lying, a child responds by telling her mother that she also lied. This response may involve which fallacy?
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After being told that she is being punished for lying, a child responds by telling her mother that she also lied. This response may involve which fallacy?
Ad homimen (tu quoque)
Ad verecundiam (ex libris)
Ad misericordiam (ex ante)
Ad baculum (antebellum)
"My husband snores. All men must snore" commits which of these fallacies.
Hasty generalization
Appeal to pity
False Cause
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
That coin, when flipped, will either come up heads or tails" may commit which fallacy?
Slippery slope fallacy
No fallacy committed
False dichotomy
Begging the question
All arguments make fallacious __.
indications
inferences
interferons
interferences
If an argument does not commit a fallacy, it is
necessarily valid.
necessarily sound.
Not enough information to determine
Both A and B
"The Senator wants to cut spending on police. I guess she doesn't care if we all get murdered" may commit which fallacy?
Straw man fallacy
False Cause
Appeal to popularity
No fallacy committed
"Officer, please don't give me a ticket. My kids were hungry, and I had to drive fast to get them their food" may commit which fallacy?
Begging the question
Chinese room fallacy
Slippery slope fallacy
Appeal to pity
"Julie started carrying a rabbit's foot, then she won the lottery. The rabbit's foot must have caused her to win the lottery" commits a(n)
ad hominem fallacy.
false cause fallacy.
strawman fallacy.
slippery slope fallacy.
A fallacy is an argument that
is a weak inductive argument.
makes a mistaken in deriving a conclusion.
has a false conclusion.
is a sound inductive argument.
"If that wasn't illegal, then it wouldn't be against the law" may commit which fallacy?
Begging the question
Chinese room fallacy
Slippery slope fallacy
Appeal to pity