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The fact that someone has dubious reasons for making a claim does not show that the claim is false.   True  
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The distorting, weakening, or oversimplifying of someone's position so it can be more easily attacked or refuted is known as   Straw Man  
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The use of derision, sarcasm, laughter, or mockery to disparage a person or idea is known as   Ridicule  
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Any argument that tries to show that one event or state of affairs can inevitably lead to others is fallacious.   false  
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A scientific claim must be true if it hasn't been shown to be false.   false  
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A slippery-slope pattern of argument is fallacious when   There is no good reason to think that doing one action will inevitably lead to another undesirable action.  
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The fallacy of equivocation occurs whenever a word has one meaning in one premise and the same meaning in another premise or the conclusion.   false  
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Good writers never combine arguments with appeals to emotion.   false  
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The attempt to establish the conclusion of an argument by using that conclusion as a premise is known as   begging the question  
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The demand that someone prove a universal negative is unreasonable.   true  
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"No one has shown that ghosts aren't real, so they must be real"--is an example of   appeal to ignorance  
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Claims that come out of a "poisoned well" cannot be automatically dismissed.   true  
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If we could prove anything with a lack of evidence, we could prove almost anything.   true  
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The straw man fallacy is a favorite of politicians.   true  
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"The political action committee is very prestigious in Washington; we can expect, then, that each of its soldiers is very prestigious in Washington" is an example of the fallacy of division.   true  
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Whether people are hypocritical regarding their claims is directly related to the truth of those claims.   false  
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An argument of this form--P. Therefore, p--is called   begging the question  
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The appeal to popularity is arguing that a claim must be false because   a substantial number of people doubt it  
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"Reinterpret claim X so that it becomes the weak or absurd claim Y; attack claim Y; conclude that X is unfounded" is an example of equivocation.   false  
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In most cases a claim should be considered true if it hasn't been shown to be false.   false  
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Arguing that your doing something morally wrong is justified because someone else has done the same (or similar) thing is known as the fallacy of   two wrongs make a right  
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"Either you support the war or you are a traitor to your country. You don't support the war. So you're a traitor"--is an example of   false dilemma  
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The fallacy of arguing that what is true of the parts must be true of the whole is called   composition  
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rhetoric should never be combined with critical thinking   false  
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The fallacy of division is frequently used in statistical arguments.   true  
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