Logic Trivia Questions for College Students — page 2

_Ad populum_. is another name for which fallacy?

• Aappeal to pride
• Bpoisoning the well
• Csuppressed evidence
• Dappeal to the people

The Dean was showing a visitor around the campus. The visitor asked, "About how many students do you have here?" After a moment of reflection the Dean replied, "Oh, I'd guess about one in a hundred."

• AEquivocation
• BDenying the Antecedent
• CAppeal to Authority
• DFallacy of Division

When someone uses grammar or punctuation in a way that makes a statement have more than one possible interpretation, that person may have committed which of the following fallacies?

• AHypostatization
• BStyle over substance
• CAmphiboly
• DQuestion begging epithets

The fallacy of appeal to the person is rejecting a claim by...

• AUsing rhetoric
• BMaking false statements
• CCriticizing the person who makes it
• DIgnoring the person

Which of the following fallacies happens when someone concludes that someone must be honest because the people he hangs around with are honest?

• ALaudatory personality
• BGuilt by association
• CCircular reasoning
• DReprehensible personality

Which of the following fallacies is a way of suppressing evidence that eliminates a source of evidence from consideration by claiming the source is flawed, when there is no true relationship between the alleged flaw and the reliability of the source?

• Asnob appeal
• Bappeal to anonymous authority
• Cpoisoning the well
• Dsignificance

Arguing that a claim must be true merely because a substantial number of people believe it is called the fallacy of...

• ATu quoque
• BAppeal to reason
• CAppeal to the masses
• DComposition

Arguing that what is true of the parts must be true of the whole is the fallacy of...

• ADivision
• BAppeal to the person
• CAppeal to ignorance
• DComposition

"Each term must be used twice, no more and no less" is a requirement for

• Avalid categorical syllogism
• Ba valid disjunctive syllogism
• Ca materially true hypothetical syllogism
• Da valid conditional syllogism

Which of the following describes the fallacy of appeal to tradition?

• Areasoning that a claim must be true because a lot of people believe it
• Breasoning that a claim must be true because a regular person believes it
• Creasoning that a claim must be true because it's been believed in the past
• Dreasoning that a claim must be true because it's been made so often

Which of the following describes the fallacy of appeal to indignation?

• Aattacking the character or background of someone making an argument instead of his or her evidence and reasoning
• Bresponding to charges of wrongdoing by saying other people do the same thing
• Cresponding to an argument with an expression of derision instead of a counter argument
• Darguing against a position only based on personal feelings toward the position

Which of the statements below is correct about the following argument? "If the sky is blue there won't be rain. The sky is blue today. Therefore, there won't be rain."

• AIt is a formally valid conditional syllogism
• BIt is a formally invalid conditional syllogism
• CIt is a formally invalid disjunctive syllogism
• DIt is a formally valid categorical syllogism

Which of the following describes the horse laugh fallacy?

• Acharacterizing an opponent's position in such way to make it or its consequences appear to be ridiculous
• Bresponding to an argument with an expression of derision instead of a counter argument
• Cattempts to gain agreement based solely the feelings aroused by the message
• Darguing actions should be taken to avoid negative results, when those results are exaggerated, unlikely, or irrelevant

In a deductively valid argument

• AThe conclusion has already been stated in its premises
• BIf all the premises are true, the conclusion may still be false
• CBoth A and B
• DIf all the premises are true, the conclusion must be true

Telling people that they haven't been harmed because there is something they should be thankful for commits which of the following fallacies?

• Afalse consolation
• Bhorse laugh
• Cgenetic fallacy
• Dappeal to joy

_Ad hominem_ is another name for the fallacy of

• Aappeal to loyalty
• Breducing to an absurdity
• Cignorance of refutation
• Dargument against the person

If someone uses an emotionally charged restatement of a claim in place of support for the claim, that person may have committed which of the following fallacies?

• AHypostatization
• BQuestion begging epithets
• CAmphiboly
• DStyle over substance

A valid disjunctive syllogism has which of the following characteristics?

• AThe minor premise must either accept an alternative or reject an alternative
• BOne of the premises is missing
• CThe minor premise must either affirm the antecedent or deny the consequent
• DIt reaches a truthful conclusion

Arguing that what is true of an entire object is also true of each part of that object is the fallacy of

• Adivision
• Bhasty generalization
• Cad crumenam
• Dfalse criteria

Which of the following fallacies happens when someone concludes that someone couldn't have done something bad because he or she has good qualities?

• ALaudatory personality
• BCircular reasoning
• CReprehensible personality
• DGuilt by association

Arguing that someone couldn't have done something good because he is incapable of doing good commits the fallacy of

• ABegging the question
• BFalse dilemma
• CAccident
• DFalse dichotomy

Which of the following describes the fallacy of appeal to loyalty?

• Aarguing that an idea should be accepted only because of who originated the idea
• Barguing that someone should do something to be loyal to a person or a group
• Cresponding to an argument with an expression of derision
• Darguing that someone should do something because it will make him or her better liked by others

Men are better drivers than women are. The proof of this is that men are more capable than women of managing cars on the road.

• AAd hominem (Attacking the Person)
• BFalse Dilemma
• CBegging the question
• DAppeal to Pity

False analogy is another name for which fallacy?

• AOver generalization
• BConcomitant variation
• CComposition
• DImperfect analogy

Another name for the fallacy of false dilemma is

• ACircular reasoning
• BLaudatory personality
• CGuilt by association
• DFalse dichotomy

A syllogism that is formally invalid

• Aboth B and C
• Bcannot be materially true
• Cmight be materially true
• Dmight be materially untrue

Evading burden of proof is another name for the fallacy of

• AComplex proposition
• BExtension
• CAppeal to ignorance
• DComplex question

The fallacy of guilt by association is a specific type of

• ALaudatory personality
• BCircular reasoning
• CFallacy of accident
• DBegging the question

_Circulus in probando_ is another name for

• AThe fallacy of accident
• BBegging the question
• CFalse dilemma
• DGuilt by association

Automatically rejecting a claim just because it's traditional is...

• AAn appeal to tradition
• BNot reasonable
• CAn appeal to the masses
• DReasonable

Which fallacy happens when someone argues in favor of a two part proposition, only supports one part of the proposition, then asserts that the entire proposition has been supported.

• AAppeal to ignorance
• BComplex proposition
• CExtension
• Da priori

Which type of syllogism's major premise takes the form, "All A's are B"?

• Acategorical
• Bconditional
• Chypothetical
• Ddisjunctive

Another name for the fallacy of accident is

• AFalse dichotomy
• BPetitio principii
• CBlack-or-white fallacy
• DSweeping generalization

When someone is aware of evidence that contradicts her claim, but doesn't consider that evidence when making her argument, she may have committed which of the following fallacies?

• Asuppressed evidence
• Bappeal to pride
• Cappeal to authority
• Dslippery slope

The fallacy of appeal to emotions consists of

• Adefending wrongdoing by claiming the opposing arguer does the same thing
• Btrying to get someone else to agree to a claim only by arousing that person's feelings about the subject
• Carguing that an argument should be rejected because the source of the argument
• Dtrying to make an opponent's argument seem ridiculous

Which of the following describes the _tu quoque_ fallacy?

• Asummarizing an opponent's position in a way that makes it seem silly
• Battempting to gain agreement based only on the feelings aroused in the argument
• Carguing against a position based only on negative personal feelings toward the position
• Dresponding to charges of wrongdoing by saying the accuser does the same thing

Which of the following is another name for evading the issue?

• Airrelevant conclusion
• Bargument against the person
• Cappeal to fear
• D"you too" fallacy

"Misuse of statistics," "questionable statistics," and "questionable use of statistics" are all other names for the fallacy of

• Aappeal to a pride
• Bslippery slope
• Cpoisoning the well
• Dsignificance

All things that are spoiled are inedible. Timothy is spoiled. So, Timothy is inedible.

• AAttacking the Person (ad hominem)
• BEquivocation
• CQuestionable Cause
• DFallacy of Division

We must assume that he is a Communist, because he says that he is not, and we know that Communists are taught always to deny party membership.

• AAffirming the Consequent
• BArgument from Ignorance
• CDenying the Antecedent
• DBegging the Question

The natural law fallacy is

• Aarguing that what is true in nature must be true about humans
• Bsubstituting individual stories for a larger sample when supporting a generalization
• Carguing that something is necessarily bad because it doesn't cost very much
• Dthe same thing as the post hoc fallacy

The appeal to fear involves

• Aarguing someone should do something only because of ill will towards someone else
• Barguing actions should be taken to avoid exaggerated, unlikely, or irrelevant negative results
• Carguing something should be done only because it will make the person doing it feel good
• Dcharacterizing an opponents position in a way that makes it seem silly

" _Ad novitatem_ " is

• Aarguing that something must be good because it is new, or must be bad because it is old
• Bdrawing a conclusion by applying irrelevant criteria to a subject
• Csubstituting individual stories for a larger sample as support for a claim
• Darguing that what is true of a few members of a class is true of all members of the class

The natural law fallacy is a specific type of

• Afalse analogy
• Bfalse criteria
• Cfalse sign
• Dfalse cause

Arguing that someone should do something because other people are doing it is a description of which of the following fallacies?

• Aargument by consensus
• Bappeal to tradition
• Csnob appeal
• Dappeal to common practice

If you argued something is flawed because it fails to do something, when it was never intended to do that, you may have committed which of the following fallacies?

• Aad ignorantium
• BMany questions
• CExtension
• DCompound proposition

When people argue that an idea must be true because a lot of people believe it they commit which of the following fallacies?

• Aslippery slope
• Bad vericundiam
• Cad populum
• Dappeal to pride

Another name for the fallacy of complex question is

• AExtension
• BCompound proposition
• CAppeal to ignorance
• DFallacy of interrogation

Which of the following fallacies happens when someone attributes the cause of an event to a simple cause when the cause is actually more complicated?

• Apost hoc
• Bcomplex cause
• Chasty generalization
• Ddivision

I don't know what the answer is to number 8. But Heather hasn't made the third option into the correct answer for a while, and even then only once, so I'm guessing that this is the fallacy of Composition!

• AFallacy of Composition
• BGambler's Fallacy
• CAppeal to Pity
• DEquivocation