Unit Test 1 Flashcards
(28 cards)
Ad hominem
Attack on a person
Tradition
Attack on tradition
Motive
Attack on motive
Bandwagon
An argument most people except
Appeal to authority
An expert in one field extending their expertise to another field
Appeal to pity
Using sympathy in a argument to convince your point
Straw man
An argument easy to knock down
Appeal to ignorance
No evidence for the truth of X
Circular argument
Begins with the conclusion and circles back to the conclusion
Equivocation
A term that has 2 meanings that combine to make one
Loaded terms
Used to broaden or narrow the conclusion in a argument
Slippery slope
Leap in logic
Fallacy of accident
A failure to realize an exception to a rule
Hasty generalization
Just because it’s true once doesn’t mean it’s always true
Composition
Parts are incorrectly assigned to a whole
Decomposition
A whole is incorrectly assigned to parts
Arguments
Premises and conclusion are propositions which true and false
Law of identity
A thing is what it is
Law of non contradiction
Cannot be true or false at the same time in the same way
Law of excluded middle
Either true or false
Principle of sufficient reason
Everything has a cause
Ockham razor
Simplest explanation, most right
Deductive arguments
Logically entailed
Inductive arguments
The conclusion is probably true if the premises are
