Logical Fallacies Quiz

Question 1

Argumentum ad misericordium

Answer 1

Appeals to pity

Question 2

Argumentum ad nauseum

Answer 2

The more it’s repeated the more likely it’s factual

Question 3

Aggumentum as numerum

Answer 3

More people who believe in an assertion, the more factual it is likely to be

Question 4

Argumentum ad verrcundium

Answer 4

Appeal to authority

Question 5

Begging the question (tautology)

Answer 5

Circular resoning

Question 6

Bifuraction

Answer 6

Either or falicy

Question 7

Hasty generalization

Answer 7

One thus all

Question 8

Sweeping generalization

Answer 8

All thus one

Question 9

Non sequitur

Answer 9

Conclusion is drawn from ideas not related

Question 10

Faulty causality

Answer 10

A caused b because a happened first

Question 11

Weak false analogy

Answer 11

Makes comparison between two things that arnt compare able

Question 12

Appeal to traditions

Answer 12

Because it has been done or believed for a long time

Question 13

Slippery slope

Answer 13

One event will be followed by other, usually harmful, events

Question 14

Argumentum ad hominem

Answer 14

Attacks the individual