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IPHP: Logical Fallacies and Methods of Philosophizing

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 45mins

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1.

It is an error in the reasoning in an argument which tends to lessen its credibility, or invalidate it completely.

a)

Logical Fallacies

b)

Logical Abominations

c)

False Beliefs

d)

False Statements

2.

It is an argument where the premises and conclusion are related to each other in the right way so that if the premises were true, then the conclusion would have to be true as well.

a)

Logical Fallacies

b)

Argumentum ad Hominem

c)

Valid Argument

d)

False Dichotomy

3.

An argument based on feelings of prejudice rather than facts, reason, and logic. It pertains to the attack on the personal circumstances of the person rather than the argument itself.

a)

Argumentum ad Hominem

b)

Argumentum ad Populum

c)

Argumentum ad Vericundiam

d)

Argumentum ad Misericordiam

4.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"Excessive pride and envy have destroyed Jean-Jacques, my illustrious philosopher. That monster dares speak of education! He abandoned his children and the tramp with whom he made them."

a)

Argumentum ad Hominem

b)

Argumentum ad Populum

c)

Argumentum ad Baculum

d)

Argumentum ad Misericordiam

5.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"Why would I listen to you when you have that terrible breath?"

a)

Argumentum ad Hominem

b)

Argumentum ad Misericordiam

c)

Argumentum ad Populum

d)

Argumentum ad Baculum

6.

A logical fallacy which is related to the emotion to gain the acceptance of a conclusion. It is where pity or a related emotion such as sympathy or compassion is appealed to for the sake of getting a conclusion accepted.

a)

Argumentum ad Hominem

b)

Argumentum ad Misericordiam

c)

Argumentum ad Populum

d)

False Analogy

7.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"Commercials falsely showing starving children in Africa before asking for donations to feed them."

a)

Argumentum ad Hominem

b)

Argumentum ad Misericordiam

c)

Argumentum ad Populum

d)

False Analogy

8.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"I am filing for reconsideration of the offenses complained about. Since I am a well-known athlete, I can make your University great again."

a)

Argumentum ad Hominem

b)

Argumentum ad Misericordiam

c)

Argumentum ad Populum

d)

Argumentum ad Ignorantiam

9.

It is an argument which claims a conclusion is true because most, all, or even an elite group people irrelevantly think, believe, or feel that it is.

a)

Argumentum ad Hominem

b)

Argumentum ad Misericordiam

c)

Argumentum ad Populum

d)

False Analogy

10.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"Everyone says that it's okay to lie as long as you don't get caught."

a)

Argumentum ad Hominem

b)

Argumentum ad Misericordiam

c)

Argumentum ad Populum

d)

Argumentum ad Baculum

11.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"The most successful business people in the country read the Wall Street Journal shouldn't you read it, too?"

a)

Argumentum ad Hominem

b)

Argumentum ad Misericordiam

c)

Argumentum ad Populum

d)

Argumentum ad Baculum

12.

A type of argument in which the proposition is supported by the premises, which in turn is supported by the proposition. It is an argument which tends to restate the facts rather than coming up with a conclusion.

a)

Circular Reasoning

b)

Equivocation

c)

False Analogy

d)

False Dichotomy

13.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"You must obey the law, because it's illegal to break the law."

a)

Circular Reasoning

b)

Equivocation

c)

False Analogy

d)

False Dichotomy

14.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"Harold's new book is well written, because Harold is a wonderful writer."

a)

Circular Reasoning

b)

Equivocation

c)

False Analogy

d)

False Dichotomy

15.

It is an argument which utilizes vague language to hide one’s meaning or to avoid committing to a point of view.

a)

Circular Reasoning

b)

Equivocation

c)

False Analogy

d)

False Dichotomy

16.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"Noisy children are a real headache. Two aspirin will make a headache go away. Therefore, two aspirin will make noisy children go away."

a)

Circular Reasoning

b)

Equivocation

c)

False Analogy

d)

False Dichotomy

17.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"A warm beer is better than a cold beer. After all, nothing is better than a cold beer, and a warm beer is better than nothing."

a)

Circular Reasoning

b)

Equivocation

c)

False Analogy

d)

False Dichotomy

18.

It is an argument where the person is assuming that because two things are alike in one or more respects, they are necessarily alike in some other circumstances.

a)

Circular Reasoning

b)

Equivocation

c)

False Analogy

d)

False Dichotomy

19.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"People who cannot go without their coffee every morning are no better than alcoholics."

a)

Circular Reasoning

b)

Equivocation

c)

False Analogy

d)

False Dichotomy

20.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"Making people register their own guns is like the Nazis making the Jews register with their government. This policy is crazy."

a)

Circular Reasoning

b)

Equivocation

c)

False Analogy

d)

False Dichotomy

21.

A logical fallacy, which occurs when a limited number of options are incorrectly presented as being mutually exclusive to one another or as being the only options that exist, in a situation where that isn't the case.

a)

Circular Reasoning

b)

Equivocation

c)

False Analogy

d)

False Dichotomy

22.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"You are either with the support for abortion or against it."

a)

Circular Reasoning

b)

Equivocation

c)

False Analogy

d)

False Dichotomy

23.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"My contribution to the Red Cross won't solve the problem of world hunger, so it won't do any good. I won't bother to make a contribution at all."

a)

Circular Reasoning

b)

Equivocation

c)

False Analogy

d)

False Dichotomy

24.

An logical fallacy committed in an argument where the conclusion is made on the basis of limited number of evidences to support it.

a)

Hasty Generalization

b)

Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

c)

Red Herring

d)

Slippery Slope

25.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


My friend used illegal drugs since age fourteen and lived until age fifty four. Therefore, drugs really can’t be that bad for you.

a)

Hasty Generalization

b)

Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

c)

Red Herring

d)

Slippery Slope

26.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"My brother likes to eat a lot of pizza and French fries, and he is healthy, I can say that pizza and French fries are healthy and don't really make a person fat."

a)

Hasty Generalization

b)

Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

c)

Red Herring

d)

Slippery Slope

27.

A logical fallacy which offers an explanation, based on a temporal ordering of the events, that confuses co-occurrence with causality.

a)

Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

b)

Red Herring

c)

Slippery Slope

d)

Straw Man

28.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"Every time that rooster crows, the sun comes up. Therefore, the rooster must be responsible for the sun rising up."

a)

Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

b)

Red Herring

c)

Slippery Slope

d)

Straw Man

29.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"A tenant moves into an apartment and the building's furnace develops a crack. The manager blames the tenant's arrival for the malfunction."

a)

Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

b)

Red Herring

c)

Slippery Slope

d)

Straw Man

30.

A kind of fallacy that is an irrelevant topic introduced in an argument to divert the attention of listeners or readers from the original issue. It is attempting to redirect the argument to another issue to which the person doing the redirecting can better respond.

a)

False Cause

b)

Red Herring

c)

Slippery Slope

d)

Straw Man

31.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"When your mom gets your phone bill and you have gone over the limit, you begin talking to her about how hard your math class is and how well you did on a test today."

a)

False Cause

b)

Red Herring

c)

Slippery Slope

d)

Straw Man

32.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"When you are late getting home-past curfew-you distract your parents by talking to them about the weather-how cold it is, or how rainy it is."

a)

False Cause

b)

Red Herring

c)

Slippery Slope

d)

Straw Man

33.

It is a fallacy committed when someone makes a claim about a series of events that would lead to one major event, usually a bad event.

a)

False Cause

b)

Red Herring

c)

Slippery Slope

d)

Straw Man

34.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"If I eat this donut today, I'll probably eat another donut tomorrow. If I eat one donut tomorrow, I might eat several donuts the next day."

a)

False Cause

b)

Red Herring

c)

Slippery Slope

d)

Straw Man

35.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


"Legalizing prostitution is undesirable because it would cause more marriages to break up, which would in turn cause the breakdown of the family, which would finally result in the destruction of civilization."

a)

False Cause

b)

Red Herring

c)

Slippery Slope

d)

Straw Man

36.

A form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, meanwhile the proper idea of argument under discussion was not addressed or properly refuted. It is a fallacy in which the person distorts a point in the argument.

a)

False Cause

b)

Red Herring

c)

Slippery Slope

d)

Straw Man

37.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


Person A: The children's winter concert at the school should include non-Christmas songs too.

Person B: You won't be happy until Christmas songs are banned from being played on the radio!

a)

False Cause

b)

Red Herring

c)

Slippery Slope

d)

Straw Man

38.

Determine which Logical Fallacy is being committed:


Person 1: I think pollution from humans contributes to climate change.

Person 2: So, you think humans are directly responsible for extreme weather, like hurricanes, and have caused the droughts in the southwestern U.S.? If that’s the case, maybe we just need to go to the southwest and perform a “rain dance.”

a)

False Cause

b)

Red Herring

c)

Slippery Slope

d)

Straw Man

39.

It is a Method of Philosophizing in which the using common experience and ordinary language to analyze concepts and language in philosophy. It also pertains to the proper interpretation and construction of a Philosophical Idea.

a)

Analytic Tradition

b)

Existentialism

c)

Logic

d)

Phenomenology

40.

It is a Method of Philosophizing where it emphasizes the importance of free individual choice, regardless of the power of other people to influence and coerce our desires, beliefs, and decisions.

a)

Analytic Tradition

b)

Existentialism

c)

Logic

d)

Phenomenology

41.

True or False: Answer with accord to Existentialism


Humans already have a purpose before being born in this world.

a)

True

b)

False

42.

A Method of Philosophizing in which a truth which is based on reasoning and critical thinking. It is the analysis and construction of arguments and serve as the path to freedom from half truths and deception.

a)

Analytic Tradition

b)

Existentialism

c)

Logic

d)

Phenomenology

43.

In this type of reasoning, conclusion comes first, followed by main points, and the last will be the supporting data, facts, examples, and evidences.

a)

Deductive Reasoning

b)

Inductive Reasoning

c)

Abductive Reasoning

d)

Vindictive Reasoning

44.

It is a type of reasoning where supporting data, facts, examples, and evidences come first followed by the main points and conclusion will be the last part.

a)

Deductive Reasoning

b)

Inductive Reasoning

c)

Abductive Reasoning

d)

Vindictive Reasoning

45.

A Method of Philosophizing where philosophical ideas are based on the premise that reality consists events and objects as they are perceived or understood in the human consciousness and not of anything independent of human consciousness.

a)

Analytic Tradition

b)

Existentialism

c)

Logic

d)

Phenomenology