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Strayer Phil210 week 7 quiz 2

Question Question 1Every member of the Delta Club is over 70 years old. Therefore, the Delta Club must be over 70 years old.Answer IgnoranceCompositionAuthorityCircular reasoning5 pointsQuestion 2The idea that black people in this country live in poverty is ridiculous. Look at Bill Cosby. He’s a millionaire. And so are Denzel Washington and Oprah Winfrey.Answer DivisionHasty generalizationFalse AnalogyComposition5 pointsQuestion 3No one has ever proved that the human fetus is not a person with rights. Therefore, abortion is morally wrong.Answer IgnoranceCompositionAuthorityCircular reasoning5 pointsQuestion 4If someone rents a piece of land and plants crops on it, the landlord is never permitted to come and take those crops for himself when harvest time arrives. Similarly, if couples enlist the services of a surrogate mother to provide them with a baby, the mother should never be allowed to welch on the deal and keep the baby for herself once it is born.Answer DivisionFalse analogyEquivocationNo fallacy5 pointsQuestion 5The farmers of our state have asked that we introduce legislation to provide subsidies for soybeans. Unfortunately, we will have to turn down their request. If we give subsidies to the soybean farmers, then the corn and wheat growers will ask for the same thing. Then it will be the cotton growers, citrus growers, truck farmers, and cattle raisers. In the end, the cost will be astronomical.Answer AuthorityCircular reasoningGeneticSlippery slope5 pointsQuestion 6Terrorists from the Middle East have crossed our borders and traveled through the country at will. Obviously the Immigration Service has not been doing its job.Answer Circular reasoningPost hoc ergo propter hocAuthoritySlippery slope5 pointsQuestion 7Motives and desires exert forces on people, causing them to choose one thing over another. But force is a physical quantity, governed by the laws of physics. Therefore, human choices are governed by the laws of physics.Answer DivisionFalse analogyEquivocationNo fallacy5 pointsQuestion 8When a car breaks down so often that repairs become pointless, the car is thrown on the junk heap. Similarly, when a person becomes old and diseased, he or she should be mercifully put to death.Answer DivisionHasty generalizationFalse AnalogyComposition5 pointsQuestion 9All persons act in order that they might get pleasure. Even so-called altruistic persons who help others so much that they do almost nothing for themselves get pleasure out of giving. Otherwise, they wouldn’t do it. Suppose a person hits himself over the head with a hammer. He must get pleasure from it, because why else would he do it if he didn’t get pleasure from it?Answer Circular reasoningCompositionEither/Or FallacyPost hoc ergo propter hoc5 pointsQuestion 10Televangelist Jerry Falwell said that God’s anger with feminism led to the destruction of the World Trade Center. Given Falwell’s closeness to God, we have no alternative than to blame the feminists for this atrocity.Answer IgnoranceCompositionAuthorityCircular reasoning5 pointsQuestion 11Of course animals have rights. Just look at how powerless they are in comparison with modern humans.Answer IgnoranceCompositionAuthorityCircular reasoning5 points Question 12White sheep eat more than black sheep (because there are more of them). Therefore, this white sheep eats more than that black sheep.Answer DivisionFalse analogyEquivocationNo fallacy5 pointsQuestion 13We know that induction will provide dependable results in the future because it has always worked in the past. Whatever has consistently worked in the past will continue to work in the future, and we know that is true because it has been established by induction. Answer Circular reasoningPost hoc ergo propter hocAuthoritySlippery slope5 pointsQuestion 14Raising a child is like growing a tree. Sometimes violent things, such as cutting off branches, have to be done to force the tree to grow straight. Similarly, corporal punishment must sometimes be inflicted on children to force them to develop properly. Answer False analogyPost hoc ergo propter hocCircular reasoningIgnorance5 pointsQuestion 15Either we have prayer in our public schools or the moral fabric of society will disintegrate. The choice should be obvious.Answer Circular reasoningCompositionEither/Or FallacyPost hoc ergo propter hoc5 points Question 16Rhubarb pie is a dessert. Therefore, whoever eats rhubarb pie eats a dessert.Answer BandwagonEither/Or fallacyDivisionNo fallacy5 pointsQuestion 17If you find yourself paralyzed in bed for a few moments and see little creatures by your bed, you might conclude that you had experienced some kind of UFO alien abduction. Answer Hasty generalizationPost hoc ergo propter hocExtravagant hypothesisIgnorance5 points Question 18A woman’s place is in the home. That’s the way it’s always been, so that’s the way it ought to be. Answer TraditionCompositionPost hoc ergo propter hocBandwagon5 pointsQuestion 19Either the government imposes price controls on the cost of prescription drugs, or the pharmaceutical companies will continue to reap huge profits. Therefore, price controls must be imposed, because we cannot tolerate these huge profits any longer.Answer BandwagonEither/Or fallacyDivision    No fallacy5 points Question 20Karen has just moved in with her boyfriend. She claims that living together before marriage is ethical since everyone is doing it now.Answer BandwagonEither/Or fallacyDivisionNo fallacy

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