WorksheetsLogical Fallacies Review Day 1
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 8mins
What do scientists know more about than the other?
Your Brain
Stars and Galaxies
What are things that shape how we perceive information?
Light, Shading, Shape, Distance, Depth, Height, Time, and Relation to Space
Smells, Touch/Feelings, Tastes, Sounds, and Visuals.
Past Experiences, Personal Biases, and Physiological Needs.
Limited Range of Information.
These are the steps that we use to process information. Which do we most often forget to do?
1. Compile the information that we are given.
2. Fill in the gaps with what we think we know.
3. Check if these ideas are based in reality.
What is a logical fallacy?
A mistake in collecting or compiling information.
An error in reasoning.
An error in the order of how information in presented.
How we perceive our favorite things.
What do fallacies do?
Show your cards to your opponent.
Make information seem useless.
Render an argument invalid.
Make us double check our sources.
What is a Hasty Generalization?
After this, then that.
They go low, we go high.
If above, so below.
If this, therefore that.
What is a Hasty Generalization?
Making assumptions about a whole group or range of cases based on a sample that is inadequate.
Characterizing an argument.
Assuming something is true or right because others believe in it.
A general statement or concept.
What is a Non-Sequitur?
It is when your argument follows a logical order.
It summarizes the information in your argument.
It occurs when a conclusion does not follow from the premises.
It occurs when you have evidence to support your argument.
What is a Non-Sequitur?
"To go or come after."
"It follows suit."
"A series of events."
"It does not follow."
Which are other terms used for a False Dichotomy?
"Black-and-White" Fallacy
"Either-Or" Fallacy
"This-or-That" Fallacy
"False-Dilemma" Fallacy
What is a False Dichotomy?
When you agree with something because there are no other options presented.
When two or more answers are correct.
When you limit the options to two, even though there are more to choose from.
When you have a moral dilemma.
