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Instructions: Identify the fallacy of relevance that appears in the following passage. Your parents raised you to believe in God. If you become an atheist as an adult, they would be devastated.
Your Answer: The appeal to emotion

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Instructions: Identify the fallacy of relevance that appears in the following passage. Those who are against the death penalty believe the lives of murderers are more important than the lives of their victims.
Your Answer: The straw man

3.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of relevance that appears in the following passage. You should hire me for this position, even though I know I don't have much experience in this field. But I have been out of work for two years and really need this job. You shouldn't allow my family to suffer if I can learn on the job.
Your Answer: The appeal to emotion

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Instructions: Identify the fallacy of relevance that appears in the following passage. Don't break up with me! If you do, all of my friends will think I am a loser. You don't want that, do you?
Your Answer: The appeal to emotion

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Instructions: Identify the fallacy of relevance that appears in the following passage. You would have to be crazy to vote for a third-party candidate. The fact is, we live in a two-party system. People that vote for a thirdparty candidate or write in a name are just stupid.
Your Answer: The attack on the person

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Instructions: Identify the fallacy of relevance that appears in the following passage. Don't listen to what Senator Jones says about the war in Iraq, he was a draft-dodging coward.
Your Answer: The attack on the person

7.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of relevance that appears in the following passage. It is important that you vote for Hillary Clinton for president. You don't want to be considered anti-woman, do you?
Your Answer: The appeal to emotion

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Instructions: Identify the fallacy of defective induction that appears in the following passage. I just can't believe it is possible, therefore it must not be true.
Your Answer: The argument from ignorance

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Instructions: Identify the fallacy of defective induction that appears in the following passage. Western art needs to stay at the core of our university curriculum. The recent push toward diverse curriculum has left little time to study the important artists of our past. Rather, we are told urban poetry and graffiti murals are to be seen as legitimate works of art. If we continue down this path of multiculturalism, Beethoven will be replaced by Lady Gaga and Da Vinci will be replaced by common

street thugs. Art appreciation will be lost forever!

Your Answer: False cause

10.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of defective induction that appears in the following passage. If we change our store policy of not accepting returns without a receipt, for you, we will have to change it for everyone. Since this is a chain store, taking back items without a receipt will have to become a national policy. In order to compete with us, every business in America will have to adopt the new return policy. Soon, this policy will lead to unemployment and the businesses going bankrupt. So, no, we can't change our store policy just for you.
Your Answer: False cause

11.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of defective induction that appears in the following passage. You can't prove I don't have an incorporeal, floating, invisible, heatless fire-breathing dragon in my garage, so it would be irrational for you to say I don't.
Your Answer: The argument from ignorance

12.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of defective induction that appears in the following passage. Some reported paranormal activity has never been proven to be the work of physical forces. Unless you can prove that there are no ghosts, or other spiritual entities, it is irrational to suggest that ghosts don't exist.
Your Answer: The argument from ignorance

13.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of defective induction that appears in the following passage. You can't prove that I did steal your favorite sweater. So, obviously, I didn't do it!
Your Answer: False cause

Correct Answer: The argument from ignorance See Fallacies of Defective Induction

14.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of ambiguity that appears in the following passage. You are perfectly willing to believe in miracles, such as a person landing on the moon. If this is so, you shouldn't be so skeptical of the miracles in the Bible.
Your Answer: Equivocation

15.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of ambiguity that appears in the following passage. Everything in the universe had a beginning; therefore the universe itself must have had a beginning.
Your Answer: Composition

16.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of ambiguity that appears in the following passage. The candlelight from one candle is not enough to illuminate this room. Therefore, the candlelight from one thousand candles will not be enough to illuminate this room.
Your Answer: Division Correct Answer: Composition See Fallacies of Ambiguity

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Instructions: Identify the fallacy of ambiguity that appears in the following passage. The law says that insane people should not be punished. Anyone who leaves fingerprints all over a murder weapon must be insane and should be treated in a mental ward, not punished.
Your Answer: Equivocation

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Instructions: Identify how the accent of a particular word influences the meaning of the sentence. The statement "I don't really want to go to this wedding." is most similar with the following statement:
Your Answer: These people will probably not have a fun wedding.

19.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy that corresponds to the given definition. An informal fallacy in which two or more meanings of the same word or phrase have been confused.
Your Answer: Equivocation

20.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of presumption that appears in the following passage. Have you stopped beating your wife?
Your Answer: Begging the question Correct Answer: Complex question See Fallacies of Presumption

21.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of presumption that appears in the following passage. I can be assured that whatever I know clearly and distinctly is true, because God is not a deceiver. I have a clear and distinct idea of God, therefore, I know God exists.
Your Answer: (blank)

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Instructions: Identify the fallacy of presumption that appears in the following passage. One should eat and drink in moderation, since it is best not to eat or drink too much or too little.

Your Answer: Complex question Correct Answer: Begging the question See Fallacies of Presumption

23.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of presumption that appears in the following passage. As long as I know that I am right, nobody will ever prove me wrong.
Your Answer: Accident Correct Answer: Begging the question See Fallacies of Presumption

24.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of presumption that appears in the following passage. Everybody knew who Michael Jackson was. Socrates was somebody. Therefore, Socrates knew who Michael Jackson was.
Your Answer: Complex question Correct Answer: Accident See Fallacies of Presumption

25.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of presumption that appears in the following passage. When will my opponent read the legislation before voting on it?
Your Answer: Begging the question Correct Answer: Complex question See Fallacies of Presumption