Solutions to the fallacies Homework (Chapter 6)
Part A:
2. Subjectivism
5. Appeal to Authority (this isn't appeal to majority; Medical doctors have no privileged status with respect to moral claims.
)8. Appeal to Majority
11. Appeal to Ignorance
14. Equivocation (uses both broad and narrow sense of the word "abuse")
17. Ad Hominem (not appeal to emotion; dismisses someone's opinion on the basis of their experience)
20. Begging the Question
Part C:
2. Post Hoc
5. Appeal to Authority
8.
Diversion (To argue that the Jews are a fine people is definitely not to argue that a Jewish problem doesn’t exist!)11. Appeal to Force
14. Post Hoc
17. Ad Hominem
20. Appeal to Majority
Some others from Part A:
1. Appeal to Majority
4. Appeal to Emotion
7. False Alternative
10. Hasty Generalization
13. Diversion (can't be ad hominem, because we aren't rejecting any of Picasso's opinions)
16. False Alternative
19. Composition/Division
21. Composition/Division
22. Begging the Question
23. Ad Hominem
24. Diversion
25. Appeal to Majority