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WorksheetsYear 12 General Critical Reasoning Practice
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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
It is raining today. It is winter. It is likely to rain at some point tomorrow.
Weak
Moderate
Strong
Deductively Valid
Evaluate the strength of the following inference:
I am short so it follows that my twin sister is also likely to be short.
Weak
Moderate
Strong
Deductively Valid
Evaluate the strength of the following inference:
If Jim eats cake, Jim dies. Jim ate the cake. Jim died.
Weak
Moderate
Strong
Deductively Valid
Evaluate the cogency of the following inference:
All humans are rabbits. All rabbits like carrots. Humans like carrots.
Cogent
Not Cogent
Evaluate the cogency of the following inference:
Today is Tuesday, so tomorrow is Wednesday.
Cogent
Not Cogent
Who created the panopticon?
Who formulated the Harm Principle?
What is the meaning of epistemic asymmetry?
What branch of philosophy does aesthetics relate to?
Axiology
In aesthetics, the position of autonomism can be described as...
