PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Slippery Slope, Slippery Slope, False Dilemma

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Mark Brown

Document Summary

Thinking that previous events can influence the probabilities in the random event at hand: the false cause fallacy (post hoc): This is a very common logical fallacy. But that doesn"t mean that one thing following another is always a case of causation: the fallacy of the hasty generalization. When a conclusion is made about a whole group based on an inadequate sample of the group. Hasty generalizations provide evidence that is relevant but that isn"t sufficient to justify a strong conclusion. When applied to groups of people, hasty generalizations tend to result in stereotyping: the fallacy of the false dilemma: Asserting that there are only two alternatives to consider in some issue when there are actually more than two. If you are presented with an either/or statement and you can think up more possibilities then just two, then you may be looking at a false dilemma: the fallacy of the loaded question: