NEW
Font size
WorksheetsPhilosophy and Logical Fallacies Quiz
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
What is the primary purpose of Descartes’ methodical doubt?
To prove that all knowledge is unreliable
To clear away uncertain beliefs to find a foundation of certainty
To permanently embrace skepticism
To replace empirical observation with religious explanations
Which statement is the best example of an appeal to authority fallacy?
This medicine works because clinical trials show improvement.
My professor says climate change isn’t real, so it must be false.
Two witnesses agree, so the event is likely reliable.
The conclusion follows logically from the evidence.
Which best describes Hegel’s dialectic?
A rejection of metaphysics
A progression of thesis → antithesis → synthesis
An empiricist method
A view that history is random
What fallacy attacks a person instead of their argument?
Straw man
Appeal to tradition
Ad hominem
Red herring
When is an argument valid?
When its premises are true
When the conclusion follows logically from the premises
When the conclusion is true
When the premises guarantee the truth of the conclusion
What philosophical view claims that all knowledge comes from sense experience?
Rationalism
Metaphysics
Dualism
Empiricism
Which idea is most associated with Nietzsche?
Methodical doubt
Golden Mean
God is dead
Determinism
What fallacy assumes one event will trigger an extreme chain reaction?
False dilemma
Appeal to emotion
Circular reasoning
Slippery slope
What is Derrida’s main idea?
Deconstruction
Empiricism
Hyperreal media
Modernist metanarrative
Which fallacy presents only two options when more exist?
False dilemma
Circular reasoning
Appeal to emotion
Red herring
What view claims that reality is shaped by the structures of the mind?
Idealism
Bad faith
Free will
Skepticism
Which philosopher taught that virtue lies between excess and deficiency?
Descartes
Aristotle
Machiavelli
Socrates
In which work does Plato present the Allegory of the Cave?
The Republic
The Symposium
Meno
Phaedo
According to Plato, the highest form of knowledge is knowledge of what?
The Forms
The Gods
The Senses
The Elements
Descartes is considered the father of which movement?
Existentialism
Empiricism
Rationalism
Stoicism
What does Descartes believe about the mind and body?
They are identical
They are completely physical
They are two distinct substances
They are controlled externally
According to deconstruction, meaning is:
Fixed and stable
Unstable and based on differences
Determined by one interpretation
Universal across cultures
A poem with many contradictory meanings best reflects which idea?
Idealism
Empiricism
Realism
Deconstruction
What is “bad faith”?
Lying to oneself to avoid responsibility
Blind belief in authority
Doubting everything
Avoiding emotions
Ethics is the study of:
What determines good and bad
What is real
The origin of life
Social customs
According to Descartes, what guarantees the truth of clear and distinct ideas?
God
The senses
Human tradition
The government
Which sentence correctly describes the difference between validity and soundness?
Valid arguments must have true premises
Sound arguments must be valid and have true premises
Valid arguments are always sound
Sound arguments can have unrelated premises
Which example is a straw man fallacy?
Ignoring someone because they’ve been wrong before
Claiming truth because many believe it
Attacking a distorted version of someone’s argument
Assuming one event caused another
Which fallacy/example pair is correct?
Straw man: “You either love math or hate it.”
Slippery slope: “Celebrities use these vitamins, so they’re the best.”
Ad hominem: Rejecting a doctor’s advice because he once smoked
Circular reasoning: “It’s true because it feels true.”
What was Heidegger’s central idea?
Dasein
Categorical imperative
Bad faith
Forms
Which philosopher argued that traditional religious foundations have collapsed?
Kierkegaard
Camus
Hegel
Nietzsche
What did Kant claim about the Categorical Imperative?
Act only in ways that could become universal rules
Search for meaning in a meaningless world
Mind and body are separate
Doubt everything
What does “Cogito ergo sum” aim to prove?
The senses are fully reliable
The mind and body are identical
Existence is proven through thinking
Knowledge comes only from experience
Which fallacy distracts from an argument by introducing unrelated information?
Red herring
False dilemma
Slippery slope
Appeal to ignorance
What is the main claim of rationalism?
All knowledge comes from the senses
Knowledge is gained primarily through reason
Reality is only what can be observed
Humans create meaning in an absurd world
