The Inference to the Best Explanation is an example of
Question 1The Inference to the Best Explanation is an example of
Neither deductive nor inductive
Deductive argument
Inductive argument
Both deductive and inductive
Question 2In the Inference to the Best Explanation, the best explanation is the one that
is less likely to be true
guarantees the truth of the explanation
is extremely likely to be true
is certainly to be true
Question 3Considered moral judgments are…
Those moral judgments that we accept after we reason about them carefully
All the possible answers are correct
Those moral judgments that we accept because of our upbringing
Those moral judgments that the majority of people accept
Question 4Which of the following is a moral statement?
Handsome Paul is a good looking Professor
Homosexuality is immoral
Handsome Paul teaches critical thinking
Some people are homosexual
Question 5Which of the following is a general moral principle?
All the possible answers are correct
it is wrong to kill innocent people
President Trump is accused of cheating on his wife
Saddam Hussein killed innocent people
Question 6For Utilitarians,
None of the above
The end always justifies the means
The means always justifies the end
We ought to follow moral rules no matter the outcome
Question 7According to utilitarians,
the lowest happiness for the greatest number
None of the above
the greatest happiness for the greatest number
the greatest happiness for the fewest number
Question 8According to Kantian ethics,
right actions are those that achieve the greatest happiness for the greatest number
The end always justifies the means
some acts are absolutely right no matter their consequences
None of the Above
Question 9Which of the following is inaccurate about Kantian ethics?
It is wrong for anyone anywhere to break a promise
We are never to tell a lie, no matter what
We are permitted to lie to save a human life
All the above answers are correct
Question 10Which of the following is true of Kantian ethics?
We can lie to save a human life
We ought to follow moral rules no matter what?
All the above answers are correct
What matters is the consequences of actions
Question 11″Yes, many innocent civilians have been killed in Iraq. But in the long run, the world will be a better place if Iraq is a free country.” Which ethical theory would support this claim?
Categorical imperative
Kantian Ethics
Deontology
Utilitarianism
Question 12“You have to balance a person’s rights against the common good. Pornography isn’t good for a society, it would make most people unhappy. Thus, we should get rid of it.” Which ethical theory would support this claim?
Deontology
Kantian Ethics
All the possible answers are correct
Utilitarianism
Question 13Non moral statements
Describe state of affairs
Assert that an action is right
None of the Above
Assert that an action is wrong
Question 14Smoking is associated with a higher frequency of lung cancer; therefore; smoking and lung cancer are said to be
Positively and negatively correlated
Positively correlated
Causally correlated
Negatively correlated
Question 15
Which of the following descriptions best captures the difference between a euphemism and a dysphemism?
A euphemism is a form of rhetoric but a dysphemism is not
A dysphemism is employed to create a negative effect on a reader’s attitude, and a euphemism is employed to create a positive effect on a reader’s attitude
A euphemism is employed to create a negative effect on a reader’s attitude, and a dysphemism is employed to create a positive effect on a reader’s attitude.
A dysphemism is a form of rhetoric but a euphemism is not.
Question 16People who support the Gaddafi government may refer to those fighting against the government as “rebels” or “terrorists”. Identify the rhetorical device involved here
No rhetorical device involved
Dysphemism
Euphemism
Both Euphemism and Dysphemism
Question 17″Would you have voted for President Trump if you knew he had cheated on his tax and had slept with the Porn star Stormy Daniels”? This question contains an example of
Straw Man
Appeal to Tradition
Innuendo
Equivocation
Question 18President Trump says the tax increase is for revenue enhancement. The phrase “revenue enhancement” is a ___________ for “tax increase.”
Stereotype
Dysphemism
Fallacy
Euphemism
Question 19Which of the following is accurate about inductive causal reasoning?
Correlation always guarantees causation
Correlation cannot be as a result of coincidence
Correlation cannot guarantee causation
If A is correlated with B, then A caused B
Question 20″After 10 years, a wife started to think their child looks kinda strange, so she did a DNA test and found out the child is not theirs. When she told her husband what she found out, the husband replied, you don’t remember, do you?? When we were leaving the hospital, the baby pooped and you told me go and change him, so I went inside, got a clean one, and left the dirty one there. The wife fainted…” What fallacy is involved here?
Equivocation
Red Herring
Straw Man
Bandwagon
Question 21Reporter: “Trump university is said to be a total disaster. If you couldn’t successfully manage a university, how can you successfully manage the whole country?”
Trump: “I am very proud of my accomplishments. I will build a great wall—and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me—and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that walls. Mark my words”. Which fallacy, if any, is being committed by Trump?
No fallacy involved
Appeal to Ignorance
Red Herring
Slippery Slope
Question 22In arguing against the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, one of the Senators said this “We finally did away with the individual mandate tax that was established under that wonderful bill called Obamacare”, he continued “No, if you didn’t catch on, I was being very sarcastic. That was the stupidest, dumbass bill that I’ve ever seen.” What fallacy is involved in this argument?
Slippery Slope
Hasty Generalization
Ad Hominem
Appeal to Ignorance
Question 23“Minutes after I e-mailed the copies of the chain letter, my headache went away. E-mailing the letter must have cured my headache.” This argument commits
The fallacy of Slippery Slope
No fallacy
The fallacy of Scare Tactics
The fallacy of Post Hoc
Question 24″Look Tom, you could go to the police with your information about our questionable accounting practices here at Fayetteville. But remember, you have a family to feed. Besides, you know how rumors of this kind of disloyalty can spread through the industry. You’ll never work as an accountant in this town again.” This argument commits
The fallacy of Begging the Question
The fallacy of Scare Tactics
The fallacy of Appeal to Tradition
No fallacy
Question 25″Professor Handsome Paul, I deserve a better grade than a D in this class. Look, my parents just got a divorce. If they see that I got a D, they will just blame each other, and the fighting will start all over again. Give me a break.” This is a classic fallacy of
Equivocation
Appeal to Pity
Hasty Generalization
Appeal to Tradition
Question 26Before Covid-19 and social distancing, pregnancy rate was low. Pregnancies increase shortly after covid-19 and social distancing. Clearly covid-19 and social distancing are making people pregnant. This is a fallacy of
Red Herring
Post Hoc
Appeal to Tradition
Slippery Slope
Question 27″Paul says that students who cheat on exams should not automatically be expelled from school. But it’s ridiculous to insist that students should never be punished for cheating.” What fallacy is involved here?
Two Wrongs Make a Right
Red Herring
Straw Man
Look Who is Talking
Question 28The Bible is true because God exists, and God exists because the Bible says so. This is a classic fallacy of
Begging the question
Equivocation
Straw Man
Scare Tactics
Question 29″Dad, I can’t believe you won’t let me get “I love my Handsome Critical Thinking Professor” tattooed on my left buttocks. After all, I am sixteen years old, and you told me you and Mom both got your first tattoo when you were sixteen.” This is a fallacy of
Look Who’s Talking
Straw Man
Red Herring
Appeal to Popularity
Question 30“Twenty percent? You want to tip her 20%???? Hey, maybe you want to give her everything we make, but I frankly think that is ridiculous!” This is a classic fallacy of
Straw Man
Begging the Question
Bandwagon
Red Herring
Question 31Mother to Student: “I just received your phone Bill. It has gone way over the limit. I am really pissed off.”
Student to Mother: “My critical thinking class has been extremely hard. Thank God, I was the only one who made an A on a test today. And the professor who teaches the class is really really good looking.” Identify the fallacy involved in this argument.
Ad Hominem
Red Herring
Begging the Question
Straw Man
Question 32″Of course, the death penalty is a just punishment. It has been used for centuries.” What fallacy is involved in this argument?
Appeal to Tradition
Appeal to ignorance
Red Herring
Ad Hominem
Question 33″Two of the Fayetteville Critical Thinking Professors are originally from Ghana. Both Professors received their first degree from the University of Ghana. They must really have a great Philosophy program. I think I’ll enroll my children at the University of Ghana Philosophy Program.” What fallacy is involve here?
Faulty Analogy
Slippery Slope
Ad Hominem
Hasty Generalization
Question 34″For those of you who call your Husband Baby, your Wife Baby, and even your Boyfriend and Girlfriend Baby, please don’t forget to bring them for immunization tomorrow. Let’s kick Polio out of society because its affecting babies at an alarming rate.” What fallacy is involved here?
Appeal to Tradition
Equivocation
Bandwagon
Slippery Slope
Question 35IRS agent: “Dr. Boaheng, there is nothing in these documents that proves that you haven’t been cheating on your taxes. Therefore, I must assume that you have been cheating on your taxes.” What fallacy is involved here?
Appeal to ignorance
Appeal to Pity
Red Herring
Appeal to Tradition
Question 36″Every woman I have ever dated dumped me for a richer guy. It shows that women don’t care about anything but money.” This argument commits the fallacy of
Hasty Generalization
Red Herring
Two Wrongs Make a Right
Look Who is Talking
Question 37Handsome Paul to his critical thinking students: “If you miss class today, then you’d better forget about a good grade, and if you make a bad grade here, you might as well drop out of college, and if you drop out of college, then you’d better forget about getting a lucrative job”. What fallacy is Handsome Paul committing?
Slippery Slope
Ad Hominem
Appeal to Tradition
Red Herring
Question 38″Abortion is the unjustified killing of a human being and as such is murder. Murder is illegal. So, abortion should be illegal.” What fallacy is involved here?
Hasty Generalization
False Dilemma
Begging the Question
Red Herring
Question 39Former President Bush made this declaration: ‘Look, either you support the Iraq war or you are a traitor to your country. Some Americans don’t support the war. So they are traitors.” President Bush’s argument is a classic fallacy of
Faulty Analogy
False Dilemma
Hasty Generalization
Slippery Slope
Question 40″Nobody would buy a car without first taking it for a test drive. Why then shouldn’t two mature high school juniors live together before they decide whether to get married?” What fallacy is involved here?
Two Wrongs Make a Right
Look Who is Talking
Slippery Slope
Faulty Analogy
Question 41″My mother has a lot of nerve criticizing me for marrying a man I only knew for 3 months. She married someone she only knew for 33 weeks!” This argument commits a fallacy called
Red Herring
Look Who is Talking
Slippery Slope
Equivocation
Question 42″After leaving a store, Ana notices that she has underpaid by $100. She decides not to return the money to the store because if she had overpaid, they would not have returned the money.” What fallacy is Ana committing?
Look Who is Talking
Ad Hominem
Genetic fallacy
Two Wrongs Make a Right
Question 43″If I were you, I’d rethink your criticisms of this class before I need to turn in final grades. Just some friendly advice.” What fallacy is involved here?
Red Herring
Scare Tactics
Appeal to ignorance
Appeal to Pity
Question 44″l read the other day that most people now really like the Obama Health Care Policy. I was sort of suspicious of them, but I guess if most people like them, then they must be okay.” Identify the fallacy involved here.
Equivocation
Hasty Generalization
Appeal to Popularity
Red Herring
Question 45Hillary Clinton: “The fetus has no constitutional right; therefore, abortion is not murder.”
Donald Trump: “Hillary believes one can take babies and rip them out of mothers in the 9th month on the final day (i.e. just before they are born)” Which fallacy, if any, is involved here?
Straw Man
Red Herring
Hasty Generalization
Appeal to Tradition
Question 46″President Obama recently attended a wedding ceremony and stole the show. Since we all know that stealing is wrong, President Obama should be arrested.” This “argument” contains a fallacy of
Equivocation
Ad Hominem
Appeal to Tradition
Appeal to ignorance
Question 47The trouble with impeaching President Trump is this: “If we start going after him, next we’ll be going after senators, representatives, governors. Pretty soon, no elected official will be safe from partisan attack.” This is a classic example of a fallacy called
Red herring
Straw Man
Slippery Slope
Ad Hominem
Question 48″After the training for police officers was enhanced, violent crime in the city decreased by 10%. So enhanced training caused the decline in violent crime.” This is a post hoc fallacy because
There is a guarantee that the enhanced training actually caused the decline in crime
There is no guarantee that the enhanced training actually caused the decline in crime
correlation always guarantees causation
Only enhanced training can cause decline in crime
Question 49″Look, even if Bush did lie about the WMD threat, what’s the surprise? Clinton lied about having sex with that intern, and Bush’s own father lied about raising taxes. To be sure, everybody lies.” This argument contains a fallacy called
Appeal to Tradition
Appeal to Popularity
Appeal to ignorance
Look Who is Talking
Question 50What is the real name of the (Handsome) instructor for this PHIL 110 class?
Peter Boateng
Paul Boateng
Paul Boaheng
Ugly Boaheng (If you select this, you will automatically get an F grade)
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