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Year 12 General Critical Reasoning Practice

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Identify the following informal fallacy:

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

a)

Equivocation

b)

Hasty Generalisation

c)

Genetic Fallacy

d)

Ad Hominem

2.

Identify the following informal fallacy:

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

a)

Equivocation

b)

Hasty Generalisation

c)

Ad Hominem

d)

Genetic Fallacy

3.

Identify the following informal fallacy:

Georgia knows how to cook pasta because she is from Italy

a)

Equivocation

b)

Ad Hominem

c)

Argument from Ignorance

d)

Genetic Fallacy

4.

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

a)

Appeal to irrelevant authority

b)

Ad Hominem

c)

Argument from Ignorance

d)

Equivocation

5.

Identify the following informal fallacy:

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

a)

Equivocation

b)

Ad Hominem

c)

Argument from Ignorance

d)

Appeal to irrelevant authority

6.

Identify the following informal fallacy:

Your argument is ugly and so is your face

a)

Ad Hominem

b)

Equivocation

c)

Hasty Generalisation

d)

Genetic Fallacy

7.

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.

a)

Affirming the Consequent

b)

Denying the Antecedent

c)

Modus Ponens

d)

Modus Tollens

8.

Identify the following formal fallacy:

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

a)

Denying the Antecedent

b)

Affirming the Consequent

c)

Modus Tollens

d)

Modus Ponens

9.

Evaluate the strength of the following inference:

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

a)

Weak

b)

Moderate

c)

Strong

d)

Deductively Valid

10.

Evaluate the strength of the following inference:

I am a whale therefore I am human

a)

Weak

b)

Moderate

c)

Strong

d)

Deductively Valid

11.

It is raining today. It is winter. It is likely to rain at some point tomorrow.

a)

Weak

b)

Moderate

c)

Strong

d)

Deductively Valid

12.

Evaluate the strength of the following inference:

I am short so it follows that my twin sister is also likely to be short.

a)

Weak

b)

Moderate

c)

Strong

d)

Deductively Valid

13.

Evaluate the strength of the following inference:

If Jim eats cake, Jim dies. Jim ate the cake. Jim died.

a)

Weak

b)

Moderate

c)

Strong

d)

Deductively Valid

14.

Evaluate the cogency of the following inference:

All humans are rabbits. All rabbits like carrots. Humans like carrots.

a)

Cogent

b)

Not Cogent

15.

Evaluate the cogency of the following inference:

Today is Tuesday, so tomorrow is Wednesday.

a)

Cogent

b)

Not Cogent

16.

Who created the panopticon?

a)
Jeremy Bentham
b)
John Locke
c)
Thomas Hobbes
d)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
17.

Who formulated the Harm Principle?

a)
John Stuart Mill
b)
Immanuel Kant
c)
Aristotle
d)
Plato
18.

What is the meaning of epistemic asymmetry?

a)
A concept in philosophy referring to the imbalance of knowledge between two parties
b)
A type of physical imbalance
c)
A term used in mathematics to describe uneven distribution
d)
A concept in biology referring to the asymmetry in cell division
19.

What branch of philosophy does aesthetics relate to?

a)
Ethics
b)
Metaphysics
c)
Epistemology
d)

Axiology

20.

In aesthetics, the position of autonomism can be described as...

a)
The belief that art should be completely independent of moral and political concerns
b)
The belief that art should always reflect societal values
c)
The belief that art should be used as a tool for political propaganda
d)
The belief that art should be used to promote moral values