PHI 215 final exam Question and
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This fallacy is the only formal fallacy discussed in the book - correct answer
✔Affirming the consequent
This fallacy takes place when we criticize a person instead of the argument
that they have presented - correct answer ✔Ad Hominem
When a person claims that they must be right because you can't prove them
wrong - correct answer ✔Appeal to ignorance
Misrepresenting, misquoting, misconstruing, and oversimplifying an
opponent's position are all means by which one can commit this fallacy -
correct answer ✔Straw man
This fallacy is used to discredit an argument for proposing an idea that is
shared by some socially demonized individual or group - correct answer
✔guilt by association
This fallacy is committed when an argument is either devaluated or defended
solely because of its origins - correct answer ✔Genetic Fallacy
This fallacy exploits the ambiguity of language by changing the meaning of a
word during the course of an argument and using the different meanings to
support an ill-founded conclusion - correct answer ✔Equivocation
"I ask all employees to vote for my chosen candidate in the upcoming election.
If the other candidate wins, he will raise taxes and many of you will lose your
job" - correct answer ✔Appeal to fear
, This fallacy is committed when one forms a conclusion from a sample that is
either too small to too special to be representative - correct answer ✔Hasty
Generalization
majority believes its true, so its true - correct answer ✔Appeal to Bandwagon
The issue of what mental phenomena are and how they relate to the physical
world - correct answer ✔mind-body problem
The view that the mind is the functions that the brain performs - correct
answer ✔Functionalism
The doctrine that every object and event in the world is physical - correct
answer ✔Physicalism
This individual stated that Descartes' theory of substance dualism, if correct,
would imply that the mind is a mere "Ghost in a machine" - correct answer
✔Gilbert Ryle
The view that mental properties are nonphysical properties arising from, but
not reducible to physical properties - correct answer ✔property dualism
What is aristotle's view of the possibility of immortality? - correct answer ✔He
rejects the idea
According to Descartes he is - correct answer ✔an immaterial, thinking thing
answers verified to pass 2025
This fallacy is the only formal fallacy discussed in the book - correct answer
✔Affirming the consequent
This fallacy takes place when we criticize a person instead of the argument
that they have presented - correct answer ✔Ad Hominem
When a person claims that they must be right because you can't prove them
wrong - correct answer ✔Appeal to ignorance
Misrepresenting, misquoting, misconstruing, and oversimplifying an
opponent's position are all means by which one can commit this fallacy -
correct answer ✔Straw man
This fallacy is used to discredit an argument for proposing an idea that is
shared by some socially demonized individual or group - correct answer
✔guilt by association
This fallacy is committed when an argument is either devaluated or defended
solely because of its origins - correct answer ✔Genetic Fallacy
This fallacy exploits the ambiguity of language by changing the meaning of a
word during the course of an argument and using the different meanings to
support an ill-founded conclusion - correct answer ✔Equivocation
"I ask all employees to vote for my chosen candidate in the upcoming election.
If the other candidate wins, he will raise taxes and many of you will lose your
job" - correct answer ✔Appeal to fear
, This fallacy is committed when one forms a conclusion from a sample that is
either too small to too special to be representative - correct answer ✔Hasty
Generalization
majority believes its true, so its true - correct answer ✔Appeal to Bandwagon
The issue of what mental phenomena are and how they relate to the physical
world - correct answer ✔mind-body problem
The view that the mind is the functions that the brain performs - correct
answer ✔Functionalism
The doctrine that every object and event in the world is physical - correct
answer ✔Physicalism
This individual stated that Descartes' theory of substance dualism, if correct,
would imply that the mind is a mere "Ghost in a machine" - correct answer
✔Gilbert Ryle
The view that mental properties are nonphysical properties arising from, but
not reducible to physical properties - correct answer ✔property dualism
What is aristotle's view of the possibility of immortality? - correct answer ✔He
rejects the idea
According to Descartes he is - correct answer ✔an immaterial, thinking thing
