Logical Fallacies I Quiz

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What are fallacies of insufficient evidence?

  • Mistakes in reasoning due to missing conclusions
  • Mistakes in reasoning due to premises lacking sufficient evidence for the conclusion (correct)
  • Mistakes in reasoning due to contradictory premises
  • Mistakes in reasoning due to irrelevant premises

When is a statement positively relevant to another statement?

  • When it contradicts that statement
  • When it counts in favor of that statement (correct)
  • When it is unrelated to that statement
  • When it has no impact on that statement

What is the concept of relevance based on?

  • Whether a statement agrees with another statement
  • Whether a statement is emotionally appealing
  • Whether a statement provides at least some evidence for the truth or falsehood of another statement (correct)
  • Whether a statement is popular or not

In what ways can a statement be relevant or irrelevant to another?

<p>Positively relevant, negatively relevant, logically irrelevant (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does a positively relevant statement do?

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