FALLACIES ACTIVITIES

ACTIVITY #1:

1) assumes that the ad’s promise was valid, truthful, accurate; that if 1 is good, then 12 is better

2) assumes that new cars cannot go as fast; that faster is better

3) assumes that b/c the 1st was easy the 2nd would be easier; that “modern weapons are more sophisticated & destructive”

4) assumes that he was to blame, not the bank workers or computers, not herself

5) assumes that the media was correct, honest, unbiased; that war was imminent

6) assumes that AQ was to blame for the attacks (before any evidence)

7) assumes that they were popular b/c they were good (not some other cause of their popularity)

8) assumes that anthrax is contagious & that she’d catch it from Violet; that Violet indeed had anthrax & not a false-positive; that the tests were accurate

9) assumes that the Madam had special powers; that she caused Nancy’s death; that “signs of death” can be read in one’s palms

10) assumes that Stan Lee based his character on “a scientific phenomenon”; that it’s scientific; that it’s possible; that the movie was real

ACTIVITY # 2:

(use Occam’s razor to “cut through” the answers with too many assumptions & inferences)

1) A

2) A

3) E

4) E

5) D

6) D (though B & C)

7) C

8) A

9) D

10) E (the rest are assumptions of facts not in evidence)

ACTIVITY #3:

1)A (logical guess)

2) B

3) C

4) A

5) A

6) A (although more proof is required)

7) E (rest could be true, but lack proof)

8) B

9) C

10) A

ACTIVITY #4:

  • List the multiple indefinite pronouns he employs to overgeneralize: all, nothing, no BUT not some, most, many
  • He is discussing EVERY classroom in EVERY school in EVERY country “around the world” – impossible to know


ACTIVITY #5:

1) PHEPH

2) AD IGNORANTIUM

3) PHEPH

4) PHEPH

5) CARD STACKING

6) CARD STACKING (& overgeneralization, ad ignorantium)

7) PHEPH (& OG)

8)ad ignorantium

9) PHEPH

10) OG

ACTIVITY #7:

1) PLAIN FOLKS

2) RED HERRING

3) AD HOMINEM

4) SNOB APPEAL (& ad hominem)

5) GENETIC FALLACY (& Plain Folks)

6) GBA

7)AD MISERICORDIUM

8) WEAK OPPONENT

9) BANDWAGON

10) AD BACULUM

11) TU QUOQUE

12) GBA

13) RED HERRING

14) SNOB

15) AD VERICUNDIUM

16) OVERSIMPLIFICATION

17) AD POPULUM

18) AD BACULUM

19) OS

20) RED HERRING

ACTIVITY #9:

1) BTQ

2) BTQ

3) AMPHIBOLY

4) AMPHIBOLY

5) LOADED

6) AMPHIBOLY

7) LOADED

8) FALSE ANALOGY

9) AMPHIBOLY

10) FA

ACTIVITY #11:

1) SLIPPERY

2) R.A. ABSURD.

3) NON SEQUITUR

4) NS

5) FALSE DILEMMA

6) NS

7) RATIONALIZATION

8) RATIONALIZATION

9) SLIPPERY SLOPE

10) RATIONALIZATION

REVIEW:

1) ad vericundium

2) BTQ

3) ad misericordium

4) false dilemma

5) tu quoque/bandwagon

6) amphiboly, NS, bandwagon

7) non sequitur

8) loaded language

9) card stacking, ad ignorantium

10) PHEPH (NS)

11) equivocation (LL?)

12) ad populum (LL, BTQ)

13) plain folks, ad pop.

14) TQ

15) rationalization

16) PHEPH(NS)

17) R.A. absurd.

18) genetic fallacy

19) ad ignorantium

20) card stacking

21) equivocation

22) slippery slope

23) snob appeal

24) strawman, NS

25) LL & GBA (cs?)