PHILO SUMMATIVE 2

Senator Ribbit is a liar. You shouldn't listen to him on anything.

• circular reasoning

• ad hominem

• slippery slope

• red herring

Southerners talk fast. I was just on the phone with one, and I could barely keep up!

• slippery slope

• circular reasoning/begging the question

• hasty generalization

• non sequitur

Identify the fallacy.

• faulty analogy

• scare tactics

• ad hominem

• circular reasoning

Identify the fallacy.

• either/or choices

• scare tactics

• ad hominem

• circular reasoning

A conclusion based on insufficient, incomplete, or biased information

• bandwagon

• hasty generalization

• circular reasoning

• mistaken causality

This happens when you assume that something is acceptable just because it is very common.

• circular reasoning

• ignoring the question

• ad hominem

• bandwagon

An attack or reaction to the person rather than the person’s point/argument

• ad hominem

• bandwagon

• circular reasoning

• either/or

This occurs when one wrongly claims that one event causes another.

• ad hominem

• circular reasoning

• mistaken causality

• bandwagon

This method of philosophizing is also considered as a branch of philosophy.

• phenomenology

• existentialism

• logic

• postmodernism

A specific kind of appeal to emotion in which someone tries to win support for an argument or idea by exploiting his/her opponent’s feelings of pity and guilt. What kind of fallacy is this?

• Appeal to force

• Appeal to pity

• Appeal to people

• Against the person