PHI 103 WEEK 3 LEARNING ACTIVITY WITH
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What is an appeal to fear? A type of appeal to emotion & A fallacy
that tries to get someone to agree to something out of fear when it is
contrary to a rational assessment of the evidence
What does learning about fallacies help you do? Avoid using
erroneous reasoning & Think Critically, & Avoid falling for fallacies
committed by other.
"You shouldn't hate ice cream. Pretty much everyone loves it." What
Fallacy is this? Appeal to Popular Opinion
1. Which of these arguments commits the appeal to pity fallacy? "You
shouldn't give me a bad grade because my mother would be so
unhappy." & "You shouldn't give me a bad grade because that
would make me lose my scholarship."
2. Which of these samples are biased? Estimating what percentage of
people own laptops by sampling a group of college students & A
volleyball team used as a sample to predict average height.
3. What is a judgment about a person or thing based solely on the
person or thing being a member of a group or of a certain type? A
Stereotype
4. "Atheists cannot prove that there is no god. Therefore, there is a
god."
What fallacy is committed? Appeal to ignorance
5. Since Tom is not a Democrat, he must be a Republican. Why ooes
argument commit a false dilemma? It implicitly assumed that
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everyone must be either a Democrat or a Republican
6. What is an innuendo? Making a point without directly stating it but
only implying it.
7. "Atheists cannot prove that there is no god. Therefore, there is a
god." What fallacy is committed? Appeal to ignorance
8. "Studies show that the more people spend on clothes, the more they
spend on food. So buying clothes must make
ANSWERS
What is an appeal to fear? A type of appeal to emotion & A fallacy
that tries to get someone to agree to something out of fear when it is
contrary to a rational assessment of the evidence
What does learning about fallacies help you do? Avoid using
erroneous reasoning & Think Critically, & Avoid falling for fallacies
committed by other.
"You shouldn't hate ice cream. Pretty much everyone loves it." What
Fallacy is this? Appeal to Popular Opinion
1. Which of these arguments commits the appeal to pity fallacy? "You
shouldn't give me a bad grade because my mother would be so
unhappy." & "You shouldn't give me a bad grade because that
would make me lose my scholarship."
2. Which of these samples are biased? Estimating what percentage of
people own laptops by sampling a group of college students & A
volleyball team used as a sample to predict average height.
3. What is a judgment about a person or thing based solely on the
person or thing being a member of a group or of a certain type? A
Stereotype
4. "Atheists cannot prove that there is no god. Therefore, there is a
god."
What fallacy is committed? Appeal to ignorance
5. Since Tom is not a Democrat, he must be a Republican. Why ooes
argument commit a false dilemma? It implicitly assumed that
, PHI 103 WEEK 3 LEARNING ACTIVITY WITH
ANSWERS
everyone must be either a Democrat or a Republican
6. What is an innuendo? Making a point without directly stating it but
only implying it.
7. "Atheists cannot prove that there is no god. Therefore, there is a
god." What fallacy is committed? Appeal to ignorance
8. "Studies show that the more people spend on clothes, the more they
spend on food. So buying clothes must make
