N5 Fallacies Quiz

He shops at Waitrose? He must be posh or dumb. I know he's not posh so he must not be very clever.

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Attacking the Person Fallacy

• False Dilemma Fallacy

• Illegitimate Appeal to Authority

If you get a child, that's it! No more nights out with your friends or any other fun. Are you really sure you want that?

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Attacking the Person Fallacy

• False Dilemma Fallacy

• Illegitimate Appeal to Authority

Trust me, you don't want to order pizza for dinner. Unless you want to die from obesity? Because that's what's gonna happen eventually.

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Attacking the Person Fallacy

• False Dilemma Fallacy

• Illegitimate Appeal to Authority

Did you hear what the bartender said? He said food banks are a scam where they sell your donations just to make money for themselves. I'm not taken my tinned food to them anymore!

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Attacking the Person Fallacy

• False Dilemma Fallacy

• Illegitimate Appeal to Authority

Did you hear what the bartender said? He told me a martini should always be served stirred, not shaken. But have you seen the car he drives? He's clearly an idiot.

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Attacking the Person Fallacy

• False Dilemma Fallacy

• Illegitimate Appeal to Authority

If we're going on holiday, it's either in France or Italy. You don't want to go on holiday in France. Guess that means we're going to Italy.

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Attacking the Person Fallacy

• False Dilemma Fallacy

• Illegitimate Appeal to Authority

Get this, Susan tried to tell me Italy is a great holiday destination! She failed her philosophy exam last year and now she thinks I'm going to trust her advice?

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Attacking the Person Fallacy

• False Dilemma Fallacy

• Illegitimate Appeal to Authority

This shampoo is going to cure your sore back. My dentist told me so.

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Attacking the Person Fallacy

• False Dilemma Fallacy

• Illegitimate Appeal to Authority

What's wrong with this explanation of a slippery slope fallacy?

"A slippery slope fallacy is an argument where it is claimed that taking a first step will inevitably lead to some undesirable consequences and that the first step should therefore not be taken".

• A fallacy is not an argument.

• It should be added that there is no evidence given that the undesirable consequences will in fact follow from the first step to be a slippery slope fallacy.

• It should be added that there is no evidence given that the consequences are in fact undesirable to be a slippery slope fallacy.

• It is missing the claim that in a slippery slope fallacy, we might decide to accept the undesirable consequences and take the first step anyway.

Which conclusion would make this a false dilemma fallacy?

"You either like maths or philosophy...."

• You don't like either so you must like something else

• You don't like math so you must not like philosophy either

• You don't like maths so you must like philosophy

• You like maths so you must like philosophy as well