PHIL 2003 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Inductive Reasoning, Hyperbole, Co-Premise
6 Dec 2020
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Answers to fallacy exercises in course pack, pages 59-65. Exercise 5-3, pages 60-61: begging the question, slippery slope, begging the question, false dilemma, false dilemma, hasty generalization, hasty generalization, no fallacy, or false dilemma, depending on how it"s understood, faulty analogy, false dilemma. Exercise 5-4, pages 62-63: the provincial budget deficit will destroy the economy. Those fat cats in the legislature have voted themselves a raise, and they"re already being paid way too much for the lousy job they"re doing. It"s overspending like this that causes the deficit, bankrupting the government. And a bankrupt government will make the economy implode: everybody knows that shane is the best western ever made. Millions of shane fans can"t be wrong: vampires the blood-sucking phantoms of folklore are real. And there can be no greater proof of their existence than the failure of science to prove that they physically exist.
