Thursday, May 8, 2008

chapter 11: intuctive reasoning and inductive fallacies

chapter summary

1. hasty generalization is the fallacy of basing a conclusion on insufficient evidence.

2. the either-or-fallacy, or false dilemma, is an argument that oversimplifies a situation, asserting that there are only two choices, when actually other alternatives exists.

3. the questionable statistic is that is either unknowable or unsound.

4. inconsistency in evidence is the fallacy of offering evidence that contradicts the conclusion.

5. the loaded question is the use of a biased question that seeks to obtain a predetermined answer.

6. the false analogy is a comparison of two things that have some similarities but also significant differences that are ignored for the sake of the arguments

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