Week 29 Vocab - Fallacy Quiz

A typical example or pattern of something; a model.

• Paradox

• 1. Alacrity

• Ostentatious

• Paradigm

Spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant.

• Salient

• Prodigal

• Ostentatious

• Cathartic

Characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice.

• Ostentatious

• Paradigm

• Paradox

• Eschew

Brisk and cheerful readiness; eagerness.

• Enthusiasm
• Lethargy
• Alacrity

• Excitement

A seemingly contradictory statement that may nevertheless be true; a self-contradictory statement or proposition.

• Paradox
• Quandary

• Oxymoron
• Contradiction

Experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person; indirect.

• Paradox

• Myriad

• Vicarious

• Cathartic

Salient means....

• Spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant.

• Most noticeable or important; prominent.

• Providing psychological relief through the expression of strong emotions; emotionally purging.

• Deliberately avoid using; abstain from.

A hasty generalization fallacy...

• is a logical fallacy where a conclusion is made based on insufficient evidence or a small sample size.
• is a logical fallacy where a conclusion is made based on a large sample size
• is a logical fallacy where a conclusion is made based on no evidence
• is a logical fallacy where a conclusion is made based on extensive evidence

A red herring fallacy would be...

• Offering minute or highly selected bits of evidence.

• Forcing the arguer into choosing one of two opposing positions.

• Using personal attacks instead of addressing the argument.
• Introducing irrelevant information to divert attention from the main issue.

A No True Scotsman fallacy states:

• Arguing that a claim is true or good simply because many people believe it or agree with it.

• Asking a question that contains a controversial or unjustified assumption.

• An error in logic wherein one person defends a generalization by redefining a term that excludes a counterexample.

• Incorrectly assuming that because two things are similar in one respect, they must be similar in another respect as well.