The ________________ _______________ fallacy assumes that if we take one step, nothing will stop us from taking a series of steps because each step is the same.
slippery slope
An equivocation changes the meaning of a ___________ in the middle of an argument.
word
We must discipline our minds the same way an athlete _________ his body.
exercises
The fallacy of the _______________ ____________ is changing or exaggerating an opponent's position to make it easier to refute.
straw man
When someone asks two questions, but one is hidden behind the other, that a loaded ________________.
question
An _______________________ attack is attacking an opponent's character his motives for believing something instead of disproving his argument.
ad hominem
When we are forming an opinion on an issue, it is often a good idea to collect other people's _______________ on the issue.
viewpoints
When someone uses a double standard or argues for an unjustified exemption, he is committing the fallacy of ____________.
special pleading
An ________________ is something taken for granted or accepted as true without proof.
assumption
When we claim that our viewpoint is correct because many other people agree with it, we are committing the appeal to the ____________ fallacy.
people
Tu quoque is dismissing someone's viewpoint on an issue because he himself is ___________ in that very issue.
inconsistent
What is a fallacy?
An error in logic
When someone says that what is true of part of something must also be true of the whole thing together, he is using the _________________ fallacy.
part-to-whole
The _____________ fallacy is condemning an argument because of where it began, how it began, or who began it.
genetic
A ____________ appeal to authority is an appeal to someone who has no special knowledge in the area being discussed
faulty
When someone says that what is true of something as a whole must also be true of each of its parts, then this person is committing the ________________ fallacy.
whole-to-part.
An argument which says "P is true because Q is true, and Q is true because P is true" is using ________________ __________________.
circular reasoning
A red herring introduces an _________________ point into an argument.
irrelevant
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