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Critical Thinking And Informal Logic
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Subject
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logic-and-reasoning
Instructions:
Answer 28 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Our neighbor couldn't have poisened our cat - he is always telling me how pretty the cat is.
2. Pit bulls are gentle - my neighbor has one and it is great with his kids.
Faulty Use of Authority
An example of hasty generalization is...
False Analogy
Hasty Generalization
3. A mandatory seat belt law could never be enforced. You cant issue a citation to a dead man.
An example of Appeals to Tradition
An example of Slippery Slope
An example of Straw Man
Begging the Question
4. This action opens the door for this action to follow
Appeal to Tradition
Slippery Slope
Begging the Question
An example of a False Dilemma
5. I am stealing his T.V. - because he stole my watch.
Post Hoc or Doubtful Cause
An example of Two Wrongs dont make a Right
Begging the Question
Hasty Generalization
6. Why do I make wine the way I do? Because my father - and his father before him made it that way.
An example of Appeals to Tradition
An example of Ad Hominem
Faulty Emotional Appeals
Non Sequitur
7. Irrellevant to the argument or draw attention from the issues being argued or conceal another purpose.
Two Wrongs make a right
An example of Slippery Slope
Faulty Emotional Appeals
Post Hoc or Doubtful Cause
8. The arguer suggests that only two alternatives exist. Either-or
An example of Appeals to Tradition
False Analogy
An example of Begging the Question
False Dilemma
9. There is no reason to listen to the arguments of those who oppose school prayer - they are all athiests.
An example of Ad Hominem
An example of Faulty Analogy
An example of Non Sequitar 'it does not follow'
An example of Begging the Question
10. The professors test was extremely unfair. Just ask anyone who took the test.
An example of Ad Populumn
An example of Faulty Analogy
Slippery Slope
An example of Appeals to Tradition
11. An attempt to bolster a claim by citing an expert
An example of Ad Hominem
Faulty Use of Authority
Ad Populum
An example of Slippery Slope
12. The movie star Kirk Douglas uses klennex brand so it must be the best.
An example of Appeals to Tradition
Ad Hominem
Post Hoc or Doubtful Cause
An example of False use of Authority
13. Writer making the suggestion that the answer to the question at hand has already been proved.
Begging the Question
Non Sequitur
Two Wrongs make a right
An example of a False Dilemma
14. If I drive a larger car I will be spending to much on gas - however if I drive a smaller car I am risking my life in an accident
An example of hasty generalization is...
An example of a False Dilemma
An example of Two Wrongs dont make a Right
Hasty Generalization
15. By allowing congress to regulate certain weapons that will cause them to revoke our right to bear arms.
An example of Slippery Slope
Begging the Question
False Dilemma
Non Sequitur
16. The arguer infers that because one event follows another event the first event must be the cause of the second.
Post Hoc or Doubtful Cause
Hasty Generalization
An example of Faulty Analogy
Appeal to Tradition
17. A black cat crossed my path - because this happened I wrecked my car this afternoon
Ad Hominem
An example of Post Hoc
An example of Faulty Emotional Appeals
An example of Faulty Analogy
18. An attack on the person rather than the issue of the argument
An example of Post Hoc
An example of hasty generalization is...
Two Wrongs make a right
Ad Hominem
19. Misdirection - an attack on a view similar to but not the same as the one you opponent holds.
Hasty Generalization
Staw Man
False Analogy
An example of Post Hoc
20. Whats the big deal if some settlers killed a few indians? After all - you can't make an omlette without breaking a few eggs.
An example of Faulty Analogy
Two Wrongs make a right
An example of Slippery Slope
Ad Populum
21. An attempt to make a comparison between items or situations that have no discernable link
Two Wrongs make a right
Ad Populum
Faulty Emotional Appeals
False Analogy
22. A diversionary tactic
Staw Man
Two Wrongs make a right
Post Hoc or Doubtful Cause
An example of False use of Authority
23. Abortion is murder - since killing a baby is murder.
Begging the Question
Appeal to Tradition
An example of Begging the Question
False Analogy
24. 'it does not follow' this refers to improper results - such as he hit a home run so they lost the game.
Non Sequitur
An example of Straw Man
An example of hasty generalization is...
Faulty Use of Authority
25. This murderer should not be found guilty - he was abused as a child and couldnt help himself.
An example of Faulty Analogy
An example of Faulty Emotional Appeals
An example of Begging the Question
An example of Two Wrongs dont make a Right
26. Appealing to the prejudices of the people
An example of hasty generalization is...
An example of Slippery Slope
An example of False use of Authority
Ad Populum
27. Status Quo it has always been this way why change it.
False Analogy
An example of Two Wrongs dont make a Right
False Dilemma
Appeal to Tradition
28. A judgement made before the facts are in.
An example of False use of Authority
An example of Post Hoc
Slippery Slope
Hasty Generalization