Phil110 Test 2

1. Attacking the persons character

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Appealing to non-experts
No evidence its false, so its true
After this therefore because of this
An unlikely snowball effect
Its always been done this way
Attacking a false target
Conclusion is a restatement of the
premise, circular reasoning
9. Like comparing apples and oranges
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Ad hominem in advance
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Parts to whole
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Whole to parts
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Everybodys doing it, so its ok
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Accept my conclusion or else
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Based on insufficient evidence
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Past random events arent
effecting anything
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Using same word with two
different meanings
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Its justified because they did
wrong to me
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I wish X were true, therefore X
is true
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Means Youre another,
hypocrisy charge
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Next, then ending with
something extreme or unlikely
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When the reason given to
support the argument is saying the
same thing as the conclusion
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Before, after, causal
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Same word used differently in
the next instance
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Insults, personal attack
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A comparison, X is like Y
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Woe is me, so accept my
conclusion
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A few incidents all or most
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Most people

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Contains a threat or warning
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Joe blow says X, so X must be
true
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Bias the audience in advance
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Conjunctions
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Disjunction
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Negation
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Conditional
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This argument is intended to
supply only this support for its
conclusion. (Strong or weak)
38.
What are two types of inductive
reasoning?
39.
Reason from individual
members of a group to conclusions
about the whole. (Surveys)
40.
What are two things that
determines the strength of
enumerative induction?
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Because these two things are
similar in several ways, they must be
similar in some further way.
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This is a comparison of things
based on similarities those things
share.
43.
What are five types of
explanations?
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How something is done.
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Meaning of terms, gestures
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How something works.
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End purpose, goal, or plan
48.
Why something is the way it is,
why something is the case
49.
When a theoretical explanation
is used within an argument, it is
referred to as this.
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Minimum requirement for any
theory.

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Judging the worth of a theory is
a four step process called this.
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What are TEST formula?
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This is used to judge the
plausibility of a theory in relation to
other possible theories.
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What are five criteria of
adequacy?
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There is some way, at least in
principle, to determine whether the

theory is true or false the

verification principle
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The extent to which the theory
makes novel predictions
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The amount of diverse
phenomena explained by the theory
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How well a theory fits with
existing knowledge
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The number of assumptions
made within the theory