Phil Exam 4 Questions with 100%
Correct Answers 2024/2025
Middle/Compromise position - ANSWERSa position between extreme views that are possible on the
subject, or between the most extreme views anyone actually defends, or that combines elements from
multiple competing views
Fallacy of the mean - ANSWERSinferring that a middle position must be right just because it's a middle
position
Continum Fallacy - ANSWERSthe fallacy of inferring from the fact that there is a grey area between A and
B either nothing can definitely be called A and B or that there is no real difference between A and B
closed concept - ANSWERSstraight forward, easily defined
open concept - ANSWERSnot easy to say when someone is a movie star or not, they're not easily defined
Divison fallacy - ANSWERSIf the whole part has P then the parts must have P
Composition fallacy - ANSWERSIf each part has P then the whole must have P
Disjunction - ANSWERSeither/or statements
False dichotomy - ANSWERSwhen both disjuncts in a statement are false
Self-refutting statements - ANSWERSstatements that entails their own falsity
Pragmatically self-refitting statements - ANSWERSstatements that could be true in principle, but saying
them proves that it is actually false
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