PHIL 2003 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ad Hominem, False Dilemma, Circular Reasoning
6 Apr 2016
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Fallacies of relevance - premises are true, but not relevant to conclusion. Inappropriate appeal to authority: relying on an expert who is not an expert in presented mater/there are no experts in presented mater. Geneic fallacy: arguing a claim is true/false based on its origins. Ad hominem against the person : criicizing the person giving the argument rather than the argument itself. Tu quoque you too fallacy person is being called hypocriical as a reason for rejecing their arguments or claims. Appeal to popularity a claim must be true merely because of the substanial number of people that believe it. Appeal to tradiion arguing a claim must be true because its part of a tradiion. Illicit appeals to emoion using emoion to persuade audience to believe something when the emoions appealed are irrelevant to the argument. Appeal to ignorance inferring something is true due to lack of evidence that proves it is false ( and vice versa)
