Saylor Academy - PHIL102 Final Study
Questions with 100% Correct and
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Saylor Academy - PHIL102 Final Study
Questions with 100% Correct and
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ad hominem - Answer a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the
real issue in dispute...
Saylor Academy - PHIL102 Final Study
Questions with 100% Correct and
Verified Answers
, Saylor Academy - PHIL102 Final Study
Questions with 100% Correct and
Verified Answers
ad hominem - Answer ✓✓a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the
real issue in dispute
ad ignorantiam - Answer ✓✓an argument from lack of evidence
Ex: Aliens don't exist because we have never seen one.
Ad populum - Answer ✓✓This fallacy occurs when evidence boils down to
"everybody's doing it, so it must be a good thing to do."
Affirming the consequent - Answer ✓✓If P then Q
Q
Therefore P
Analogical reasoning - Answer ✓✓reasoning in which a speaker compares two similar
cases and infers that what is true for the first case is also true for the second
antecedent - Answer ✓✓The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.
argument map - Answer ✓✓Visual diagram of how the premises of an argument relate
to one another and to the conclusion.
Aristotelian System - Answer ✓✓assumes existential import, that is, it assumes that
there is at least one existing member of the subject class in the categorical proposition
begging the question - Answer ✓✓Often called circular reasoning, it occurs when the
believability of the evidence depends on the believability of the claim.
biconditional - Answer ✓✓a statement that contains the words "if and only if"
categorical proposition - Answer ✓✓A proposition that relates two classes or
categories
category mistake - Answer ✓✓Attributing a property to something that could not
possibly have that property.
Ex: Comparing apples and oranges and placing apples in the "citrus" category.
Causal network diagrams - Answer ✓✓use arrows to show how events are causally
related
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