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Psychological Fallacies Quiz II
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In cases of pseudoreasoning, is the failure of a motivation to justify one's believing a given claim or acting in a given way.
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is the alleged support given for a claim that does not in fact support it because the reasons given are irrelevant to the claim's truth.
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A would-be argument may be called a(n) if it hides relevant issues by arousing anger.
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is a breed of "argument" from outrage in which one person, or a group, gets blamed for everything bad.
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When the emotion appealed to is fear, we call the appeal .
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In a special case of scare tactics, the amounts to saying, "Agree with me or I will hurt you."
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is a pattern of pseudoreasoning in which someone tries to induce acceptance of a claim by eliciting compassion.
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When someone appeals to your vanity, the fallacy goes by the name .
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The fallacy elicits feelings of guilt to get people to do something or agree that they should do it.
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The argument from puts all its weight on approval alone.
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The fallacy reasons on the basis of group identification.
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is a powerful emotion that can lead to the absolute endorsement of all of a country's policies.
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The argument from tries to justify a belief or practice on the grounds that other people accept it.
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The argument from focuses on what has been done or thought in the past.
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begins with the undeniable fact of differences among individuals and tries to infer from those differences that anything one believes is true.
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begins with the undeniable fact of differences between cultures or groups and tries to infer from those differences that anything one believes is true.
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Support for a position rests on the fallacy when one justifies some action that hurts another person on the grounds that the other person has done (or is likely to do) the same kind of harm.
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A fallacy is an irrelevant topic or consideration introduced into a discussion to divert attention from the original issue.





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