Matching: Arguments: 1. In this town three pro-life demonstrators have been arre
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Question
Matching:
Arguments:
1. In this town three pro-life demonstrators have been arrested for trespassing or assault. I"m telling you, pro-lifers are lawbreakers.
2. No one has proven the fetus is not a person, so it is fact a person.
3. Rampant proliferation of pornography on the internet leads to obsession with pornographic materials. Obsession with pornographic materials disrupts relationships, and that disruption leads to divorce. Therefore, we should ban pornography on the Internet.
4 Women in Muslim countries, regardless of their social status and economic limitations, are entitled to certain rights, including but not necessarily limited to suffrage.Therefore, all women in Muslim countries have the right to vote in political elections.
5. Maria says that animals have rights and that we shouldn't use animal products on moral grounds. Don't believe a word of it. She owns a fur coat--she's a big hipocrite.
FALLACIES:
Answer A. Begging the Question: The fallacy of arguing in a circle--that is, trying to use a statement as both a premise in an argument and the conclusion of that agument. Such an argument says, in effect, p is true because p is true.
Answer B. Equivocation--The fallacy of assigning two different meanings to the same term in an argument.
Answer C. Slippery Slope--The fallacy of using dubious premises to argue that doing a particular action will eneviably lead to other actions that will result in disaster, so you should not do that first action.
Answer D. Appeal to Ignorance--The fallacy of arguing that the absence of evidence entitles us to believ a claim.
Answer E. Appeal to the person--The fallacy (also known as ad hominem) of arguing that a claim should be rejected solely becasue of the characteristics fo the person who makes it.
Answer F. Hasty Generalization--The fallacy of drawing a conclusion about an entire group of people or things based on an undersized sample of the group.
Explanation / Answer
1. Answer F. Hasty Generalization.
2. Answer D. Appeal to Ignorance.
3. Answer C. Slippery Slope.
4. Answer A. Begging the Question.
5. Answer E. Appeal to the person.