PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Ad Nauseam, Reductio Ad Hitlerum, Tu Quoque

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Vincent Bergeron

Document Summary

Ad hominem - attacking the person making the claim. Tu quoque - deflect the attention of misdeads done by one group by saying another group did them. Guilt by association - discredit an argument because someone else who was bad said those things. Ad baculum - threaten someone, accept something or else . Ad misericordiam - appeal to pity (this bad thing happened, how dare you say theyre wrong) Ad populum - appeal to popularity/bandwagon, everyone believes so must be true. Complex question - asking a question demanding a yes/no which both reveal a bad admission. Ad ignoransiam - appeal to ignorance, no proof of this doesn"t make it fully true or false. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc - this caused that. If it happened before it doesn"t cause what happens after. Hasty generalization - jumping to conclusions without sufficient evidence. Gambler"s fallacy - losing more means more likely to win, not true.