Question

For each of these questions, please choose the fallacy (if any) that best characterizes the argument provided in the question.

Question 125 (1 point)

Stealing is morally wrong. Therefore the refugee shoplifting an apple and bread from a larger multinational supermarket conglomerate to feed his starving, malnourished child when no other source of food is available is morally wrong.

Question 125 options:

a)

Begging the Question.

b)

Hasty Generalization.

c)

Accident.

d)

Amphiboly.

e)

Division.

f)

Composition.

For each of these questions, please choose the fallacy (if any) that best characterizes the argument provided in the question.

Question 126 (1 point)

Gary keeps telling me that I need to get help for my depression and anxiety. He says that I shouldn't leave it untreated. But I'm not sure I should listen to him. After all, he went years without doing anything about his depression.

Question 126 options:

a)

Argument against the person, circumstantial.

b)

Argument against the person, abusive.

c)

Appeal to the people (direct).

d)

Appeal to unqualified authority.

e)

You, too (tu quoque).

f)

Straw man.

For each of these questions, please choose the fallacy (if any) that best characterizes the argument provided in the question.

Question 127 (1 point)

Many elderly people with cancer eventually succumb to the disease and, after hospitalization, pass away. Thus, if an elderly person wants to recover from cancer he or she must, at all costs, refuse hospitalization, because it seems that hospitalization leads to death.

Question 127 options:

a)

Appeal to unqualified authority.

b)

False cause / post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy

c)

Hasty generalization.

d)

Begging the question.

e)

Argument against the person, circumstantial.

For each of these questions, please choose the fallacy (if any) that best characterizes the argument provided in the question.

Question 128 (1 point)

Almost everyone has driven home at one time or other after having had a few drinks. We all do it. You can too; you shouldn’t have any problem with driving home now, even though you’re a bit tipsy.

Question 128 options:

a)

Argument Against the Person.

b)

Appeal to the people: Appeal to Snobbery.

c)

Appeal to the people: Bandwagon Argument.

d)

Appeal to Ignorance.

e)

No fallacy.

f)

Hasty Generalization.

g)

Accident.

h)

Appeal to the people: Appeal to Vanity

Answer 1

125. The correct answer is Option C. This is the accident fallacy.

126. The correct answer is Option E. This is the tu quoque fallacy.

127. The correct answer is Option B. This is the false cause fallacy.

128. The correct answer is Option C. This is the bandwagon argument.