Summary MGF 1107 TEST 1 with question and 100% answers

ALL - A CIRCLE IN A CIRLE APPEAL TO EMOTION - The appeal to pity takes place when an arguer tries to get people to accept a conclusion by making them feel sorry for someone. -'My son didn't want to eat his chicken, so I told him how many starving children there were in Africa.' APPEAL TO IGNORANCE - based on the assumption that whatever has not been proven false must be true -"People have been trying for centuries to prove that God exists. But no one has yet been able to prove it. Therefore, God does not exist." APPEAL TO POPULARITY - The fallacy of arguing that a claim must be true merely because a substantial number of people believe it. -'Millions of people saw Trainwreck so it must be a good movie' ARGUMENT - Uses a set of facts or assumptions (premises) to support a conclusion CATEGORICAL PROPOSITION - Proposition that claims a specific relationship between sets. ● All S are P ● No S are P ● Some S are P ● Some S are not P CIRCULAR REASONING - a fallacy in which the argument repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence