Logical Fallacies Quiz

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Logical Fallacies Quiz

Test your knowledge of logical fallacies and improve your critical thinking skills with our engaging quiz! This quiz covers various types of fallacies, from ad hominem attacks to equivocation, and will challenge you to recognize errors in reasoning.

By the end of this quiz, you will enhance your understanding of:

Argumentative errors
Empirical content of statements
Appeals to fear and authority
Identifying equivocation

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by AnalyzingThought21

Which of the following fallacies exemplifies an argumentative error committed when the premise(s) of an argument is unrelated to its conclusion?

Equivocation

Petitio principii

Weak inductive argument

Bandwagon fallacy

The empirical content of a statement refers to the......................................

The truth or falsity of a statement

Neither truth nor falsity of a statement

The range of entities contained in the reference class of a statement

The range of entities contained in the attribute class of a statement

If a mother tells a pediatrician that she does not trust his judgment because the pediatrician has never been a mother before, the mother will be engaged in..............................

Ad hominem abusive

Ad baculum

Ad hominem praise

Ad populum

One of these is not applicable to an argumentative passage.

It can be a syllogism and at the same time informally fallacious

It can be valid and at the same time formally fallacious

It can be invalid and at the same time informally fallacious

It can be valid and at the same time informally fallacious

Women argue that they do not have the same freedom as men do. But they are free to move about, to talk and to go to school. So what is their problem?" What is the source of equivocation?

Freedom

Problem

Move about

Argue

Which of the following illustrates appeal to fear fallacy?

To oppose the president's arguments for the opening of a new department, implies the resignation one's office since the president will not countenance any opposition

Each of the 50 persons who responded to the survey said the exercise program helped them lose weight. Therefore, everyone who uses the program loss weight

The car that just cut me off is from South Dakota, so all South Dakotans are jerks

Solomon deserves to be picked for the available promotion for he really needs the additional money to support his family

The sentence, "No, I will not reply. I see no need to defend my views against the objections of ignoramuses." expresses.............................

Fallacy of appeal to person, abusive

Fallacy of appeal to person, praise

Mass appeal fallacy

Hasty generalization fallacy

It is not impossible for a syllogistic argument to be involved in formal argument.

False

True

Not sure

None of the above

Coercing someone to accept a position by referring him or her to what will happen if the position is not accepted, may be described as..............................

Appeal to fear

Ad hominem

Appeal to illegitimate authority

Appeal to pity

The passage "Freedom of the press is one of the most important hallmarks of a modern-open society because modern-open societies value the ability of the press to report what's happening in the state." commits...............

Begging the question fallacy

Hasty generalisation fallacy

Equivocation fallacy

Appeal to the masses fallacy

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