08 Oct Identify the fallacy: Misrepresenting someone’s position to make it easier to refute

Strategies for Decision Making

•Question 1       Identify the fallacy: Misrepresenting someone’s position to make it easier to refute      

•Question 2       Identify the fallacy: Giving only two choices when more are possible                                      

•Question 3       Identify the fallacy: Assuming what you are trying to prove                                         

•Question 4       Identify the fallacy: Using the word of alleged authorities when there is not sufficient reason to believe that they have the information we week                                             

•Question 5       Identify the fallacy: Offering or accepting a token gesture in lieu of the real thing                             

•Question 6       Identify the fallacy: Arguing that something should be done because it has always been done that way                                

•Question 7       Identify the fallacy: Justifying a wrong by pointing to a similar wrong perpetrated by others

•Question 8       Identify the fallacy: Assuming an item has a certain property because all or most of its parts have that property                                             

•Question 9       Identify the fallacy:   Assuming that all or most parts of an item have a property because the whole item has it                                            

•Question 10     Identify the fallacy: An irrelevant attack on an opponent rather than on the opponent’s evidence or arguments