Year 12 General Critical Reasoning Practice

Identify the following informal fallacy:

I have the right to eat chocolate. Therefore, it is right for me to eat chocolate.

• Equivocation

• Hasty Generalisation

• Genetic Fallacy

• Ad Hominem

Identify the following informal fallacy:

I have an annoying friend name Kate. It follows that all Kates are annoying.

• Equivocation

• Hasty Generalisation

• Ad Hominem

• Genetic Fallacy

Identify the following informal fallacy:

Georgia knows how to cook pasta because she is from Italy

• Equivocation

• Ad Hominem

• Argument from Ignorance

• Genetic Fallacy

Identify the following informal fallacy:

Former President Woodrow Wilson says that women don't need epidurals when giving birth. It is clear then that, women don't need epidurals when giving birth

• Appeal to irrelevant authority

• Ad Hominem

• Argument from Ignorance

• Equivocation

Identify the following informal fallacy:

There isn't any evidence that fairies exist, so they must not exist.

• Equivocation

• Ad Hominem

• Argument from Ignorance

• Appeal to irrelevant authority

Identify the following informal fallacy:

Your argument is ugly and so is your face

• Ad Hominem

• Equivocation

• Hasty Generalisation

• Genetic Fallacy

Identify the following formal fallacy:

If it is warm then I don't like cheese. I don't like cheese. Therefore, it is not warm.

• Affirming the Consequent

• Denying the Antecedent

• Modus Ponens

• Modus Tollens

Identify the following formal fallacy:

If Eva says hi, I laugh. Eva didn't say hi so I didn't laugh.

• Denying the Antecedent

• Affirming the Consequent

• Modus Tollens

• Modus Ponens

Evaluate the strength of the following inference:

It is raining today, so it will be raining in January

• Weak

• Moderate

• Strong

• Deductively Valid

Evaluate the strength of the following inference:

I am a whale therefore I am human

• Weak

• Moderate

• Strong

• Deductively Valid