Vaughn - Concise Guide to Critical Thinking - Chapter 10 Student Quiz

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. Fallacies can be psychologically persuasive even though they are...

Psychologically impotent correct incorrect

Logically flawed correct incorrect

Deductively valid correct incorrect

Inductively valid correct incorrect

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. The fallacy of appeal to the person is rejecting a claim by...

Using rhetoric correct incorrect

Making false statements correct incorrect

Ignoring the person correct incorrect

Criticizing the person who makes it correct incorrect

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. Whether someone is hypocritical regarding her claims is...

Irrelevant to her character correct incorrect

Evidence that the claims are false correct incorrect

Irrelevant to the truth of the claims correct incorrect

Relevant only in court correct incorrect

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Automatically rejecting a claim just because it's traditional is...

Not reasonable correct incorrect

An appeal to tradition correct incorrect

An appeal to the masses correct incorrect

Reasonable correct incorrect

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. A slippery-slope pattern of argument is fallacious when...

It is hypothetical correct incorrect

There is good reason to think that doing one action will inevitably lead to another undesirable action correct incorrect

There are only two possible results correct incorrect

There is no good reason to think that doing one action will inevitably lead to another undesirable action correct incorrect

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. The use of a word in two different senses in an argument is the fallacy of...

Appeal to the person correct incorrect

Equivocation correct incorrect

Appeal to tradition correct incorrect

Appeal to emotion correct incorrect

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. Rejecting a claim by criticizing the person who makes it rather than the claim itself is known as the fallacy of...

Division correct incorrect

Appeal to emotion correct incorrect

Composition correct incorrect

Appeal to the person correct incorrect

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. Arguing that a claim must be true merely because a substantial number of people believe it is called the fallacy of...

Tu quoque correct incorrect

Composition correct incorrect

Appeal to the masses correct incorrect

Appeal to reason correct incorrect

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. Arguing that a lack of evidence proves something is the fallacy of...

Appeal to ignorance correct incorrect

Double negative correct incorrect

Equivocation correct incorrect

Burden of proof correct incorrect