Overview
PROBLEM SET 2-ANSWER SHEET
TEXTBOOK (HURLEY, 13TH ED.):
Check the EXCERCISE Section 3.1: # 2, #6, #8 2. Informal f1allacy 6. Formal fallacy 8. Informal fallacy Section 3.2: #3, #6, #8, #11, #15, #18 3. Red herring. The issue is whether the schools are in need of repair. The arguer changes the subject to whether the students spend too much time on their computers. 6. Argument against the person, abusive. The exercise assumes that philosophy consists of arguments. 8. Straw man. The arguer distorts Senator Barrow’s argument (which is about Social Security benefits) by making it appear that the argument promotes socialism. 11. No fallacy. The argument is deductively valid, and probably sound. 15. Accident 18. No fallacy. This is not an ad hominem. Ad hominem attempts to discredit an argument. Höss has not made any argument. Section 3.3: #3, #5, #11 #12, #14, #15 3. Appeal to unqualified authority. The stated experts are authorities in matters related to physics—not psychic phenomena. 5. No fallacy 11. No fallacy. This is not an appeal to ignorance. The claim is not that some nameless nobody has failed to prove something but that qualified experts have failed to find something.
12. Slippery slope 14. Appeal to ignorance 15. False cause (non causa pro causa) Section 3.4: #3, #9, #11, #21, #23 3. Equivocation (on "good") 9. Suppressed evidence. The argument suppresses the fact that the trees are much larger today than they were twenty years ago. 11. Complex question 21. Composition. There were only two atomic bombs dropped during World War II, but hundreds of thousands of conventional bombs. 23. Amphiboly. What’s in the book, the errors or the warning?