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What is an
ad hominem
argument
?
An attack on the person rather than the argument itself
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What does "
begging the question
" mean in an argument?
It assumes what it is supposed to prove without providing
evidence
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How would you identify a
straw man
argument
?
By recognizing that the argument
misrepresents
another person's position
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What is the difference between a necessary condition and a sufficient condition?
Necessary condition
: Something must happen for the event to occur.
Sufficient condition
: If something happens, it guarantees the event will occur.
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What is
modus ponens
in logical reasoning?
If P, then Q;
therefore
, Q is true
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What does
modus tollens
state?
If
P
then
Q
; Q is false, therefore P is also false
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What is the
fallacy
of
affirming the consequent
?
It assumes that because the outcome is true, the cause is also true
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What does
denying
the
antecedent
imply in logical reasoning?
If the cause is not true, then the
result
is not true
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How does
reductio ad absurdum
function in an argument?
It follows an idea to its
extreme
conclusion to show it is not logical
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What is the relationship between
cause
and
correlation
?
Correlation
does not imply
causation.
Just because two events occur together
does not mean
one causes the other.
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