Fallacies Final Written Portion

LOGIC

PART I : FINAL EXAM : FALLACIES

We can recognize that athletes that participate in sports must be given special consideration within our grading system , or we can let the University sink into athletic oblivion . - FALSE DILEMMA

I don 't know what colleges are teaching these days ! I have just received a letter of application from a young man who graduated from the state university last June . It was a wretched letter--badly written , with elementary errors in spelling , punctuation , and grammar . The state university does not deserve the tax support that

it is getting . - HASTY GENERALIZATION

All right-thinking people will support the Board of Education 's decision to destroy novels in the school libraries that are offensive to the moral standards of the community . If there were an epidemic of typhoid the health authorities would be expected to do everything in their power to wipe it out . Pornography is worse than typhoid , since it corrupts the minds and morals of the young , not just their bodies . The school board is to be applauded for their prompt action in wiping out this moral disease . - FALSE ANALOGY

Despite endless efforts , no one has been able to prove that God exists we may just as well stop trying and accept the truth : there is no God APPEAL TO IGNORANCE

Alicia started gaining more weight than ever when she started taking Slimdown the stuff must be fattening ! POST HOC , ERGO PROPTER HOC

No sensible person would support the Equal Rights Amendment . If...