Definitions of Ploys and Fallacies

From Ch 4 for Test 2

38 cards   |   Total Attempts: 188
  

Cards In This Set

Front Back
Which fallacy is driven by a false assumption concerning the connection between what is commonly believed and what is morally, socially, or rationally acceptable to believe?
Common Practice
Which fallacy claims that what is not proven must be false or that what is not disproved must be true?
Appeal to Ignorance
Which rhetorical ploy appeals to our desire to run with the crowd, not to appear different than the norm, and not to miss out on what others have?
Appeal to Popularity
Which fallacy affirms the consequent of a conditional statement, rather than affirming the antecedent?
Affirming the Consequent
Which fallacy is committed when an inference is mistakenly drawn from the attributes of the parts to the attributes of the whole?
Fallacy of Composistion
Which fallacy is committed when one utilizes a poor reconstruction of someone else’s argument in order to make it easier to defeat?
Straw Man
Which fallacy revolves around the difficulty in discerning what someone else believes or knows?
Epistemic Fallacy
Which fallacy takes it that when one thing is usually found in conjunction with another that it is reasonable to conclude that the one thing is the cause of the other?
Mistake in Correlation for Cause
Which rhetorical ploy supplements its words with images of things that are taken to be sexy in order to deliver a message?
Appeal to Sexiness
Which fallacy occurs when the truth of the conclusion is assumed by one or more of the premises?
Begging the Question
Which rhetorical ploy uses fashionable words or phrases that are loaded with rhetorical power due to the secondary connotation of the word or phrase?
Buzzwords
Which fallacy can be committed by either making an attack upon the arguer or by rejecting a claim because of disapproval or dislike of the person who makes it?
Ad Hominem
Which fallacy is committed when the premises of an argument purporting to establish one conclusion are actually directed toward some other conclusion?
Irrelevant Conclusion
Which fallacy concludes on the basis of the fact that the majority believe a certain proposition that the proposition must be true?
Majority Belief
Which fallacy is committed when one assumes that if something causes something else, then an absence of that something will prevent that something else?
Inverting Cause and Effect