Logical fallacies - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Wgu C168 Critical Thinking Exam Questions And Answers 100% Solved Fallacies of Presumption - answerComplex question Begging the question Suppressed evidence False Dichotomy - More choices are possible. Fallacies of Relavance - answerAppeal to emotion Red Herring Straw Person - distorted argument Argument against a person - Indirect Abusive Circumstantial Tu Quoque(you too) Fallacies of Ambiguity - answerAmphiboly - word has more than one meaning. Equivocation - change of meaning i...

"Although Ms. Jackson has been accused of misusing government funds, she has donated all of her income for the past three years to charity." - STRAWMAN Setting up an artificially easy argument to refute in place of the real issue "Sam Smith divorced his loving wife of ten years. How could he be qualified to be mayor?" - AD HOMINEM An attack on the character of the individual or the opponent rather than his or her actual arguments or qualifications "Teaching kids about sex educatio...

Wgu C168 Critical Thinking Exam Questions And Answers 100% Solved Fallacies of Presumption - answerComplex question Begging the question Suppressed evidence False Dichotomy - More choices are possible. Fallacies of Relavance - answerAppeal to emotion Red Herring Straw Person - distorted argument Argument against a person - Indirect Abusive Circumstantial Tu Quoque(you too) Fallacies of Ambiguity - answerAmphiboly - word has more than one meaning. Equivocation - change of meaning i...

Wgu C168 Critical Thinking Exam Questions And Answers 100% Solved Fallacies of Presumption - answerComplex question Begging the question Suppressed evidence False Dichotomy - More choices are possible. Fallacies of Relavance - answerAppeal to emotion Red Herring Straw Person - distorted argument Argument against a person - Indirect Abusive Circumstantial Tu Quoque(you too) Fallacies of Ambiguity - answerAmphiboly - word has more than one meaning. Equivocation - change of meaning i...

Using & Understanding Mathematics, A Quantitative Reasoning Approach 7th Edition by Bennett Briggs Test Bank . Unit 1A Test 1 Name: Date: Copyright © 2019 Pearson Education, Inc. - 1 - 1. List the two components of a logical argument. 2. Summarize the fallacy of personal attack. 3. Summarize the fallacy of false cause. 4. Give an example of an argument that involves a straw man. 5. List the premise and the conclusion of the following argument: The dogs are barking. Someone must be ou...

Clarity - Being unambiguous and easily understood Purpose - The goal or objective of reasoning Concepts - General categories or ideas by which we interpret or classify information used in our thinking Inference - A logical process of drawing conclusions Precision - Being precise or exact Implication - What logically follows from reasoning Assumptions - Unstated or hidden beliefs that support our explicit reasoning about something Point of view - The particular perspective from which som...

ENGL 147N Week 4 Assignment; Logical Fallacies Presentation - Poking (and Plugging) Holes in Arguments

TTU English CBESymbol - correct answer something that stands for something else Nonfiction - correct answer Writing that is factual, not creative or fictional. Counterargument - correct answer an opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward Fallacies - correct answer a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument denotation - correct answer the literal meaning of a word Allegory - correct answer a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a...

EDREADY TEST WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100% 2023/2024 subject-by-subject strategy writer will first discuss aspects of apples, then discuss parallel aspects of oranges subject-by-subject strategy example: If the writer discusses how apples taste, but how oranges look, then that is not a real comparison. point-by-point strategy the writer will discuss points of comparison, or common aspects, of the two subjects point-by-point strategy example: he or she might discuss the health ...

What level of Bloom's taxonomy for the cognitive domain has been met if students are able to restate in their own words facts and terms that appear in the textbook? a. synthesis b. comprehension c. application d. analysis - -b. comprehension What level of Bloom's taxonomy for the cognitive domain has been met if students are able to detect logical fallacies in an argument? a. knowledge b. comprehension c. application d. analysis - -d. analysis Why are affective domain objectives diff...