Rhetoric Philosphy

Which argument is sound?

• All Reptiles are cold blooded

  lizards are reptiles

  so lizards are cold blooded

• All Moons are squared

  my book is square

  my book is a moon

What type of sentence can use do for philosophical Arguments?

• Command

• Questions

• Expression of Emotion

• Statement

Which of these is a deductively example?

• Jupiter is Round

  Jupiter is a planet

  So all planets are round

• All planets are round

  Jupiter is Round

  So Jupiter’s a Planet

My 5th Grade teacher once told me that girls like boys that’s dance. Therefore, if you want to make the ladies like you, learn how to dance. What’s type of fallacy is this?

• Ad Hominem

• Slippery Slope

• Illegitimate Appeal to Authoirty

• False Dilemma

Jennifer leaves for school at 7:00 a.m. Jennifer arrives on time. Jennifer assumes, then, that she will always be on time if she leaves at 7:00 a.m.

• Generalization

• Analogy

• Cause and Effect

• Signs

• Authority

Find the next term in the sequence:
A, D, G, J, _____

• L
• M
• P
• K

Used to prove that a conjecture is false.

• Counterexample
• Inductive Reasoning
• Concluding statement
• Conjecture

Which is a counterexample of: If a four sided shape has two sides the same length, then it must be a rectangle.

• quadrilateral
• rectangle
• square
• triangle

How did Aristotle believe we could deduce what makes things what they are?

• By seeing the characteristics of particular things in order to create a general idea of what makes it different from other things
• By observing their forms in their ideal representation and thus understanding their nature
• By having innate knowledge of what those particular things are

Which is NOT a branch of Philosophy?

• Logic

• Axiology

• Religion

• Metaphysics