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