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Exercises |
These exercises are designed to be interactive - within the limits of the technology. Each exercise includes a link, labeled "answer," which will take you to the fallacy that appears in that passage. Decide which fallacy you think the passage contains, then click on the answer link to see if your answer agrees with mine. However, it is important to understand that the same passage may contain more than one fallacy, or different fallacies depending on how the passage is read. If my answer does not match your answer, this may mean your answer is wrong. However, it may also mean that you are (correctly) seeing something in the passage that did not occur to me (or that I chose to overlook). It could also mean that my answer is wrong. Bring your answer to class and we will discuss it.
Have fun!
Unit A: Deductive Fallacies
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Unit B: Non-Deductive Fallacies
The Inductive Fallacies The Errors in Observation The Errors in Sampling The Inductive Circularities |
The Retroductive Fallacies The False Cause Fallacies The False Report Fallacies The Retroductive Circularities |
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Review:
| A. Let's begin with some short exercises of the kind you
have already seen. However, the fallacies in these exercises are taken from
all of the above categories.
B. In "real life" fallacies usually do not occur just in short snippets, but in the context of longer passages. Spotting fallacies in passages is much harder than naming them in a short example. (At least, most students find it to be much more difficult.) The following review exercises take the form of longer passages so you can practice looking for fallacies in a setting that more closely resembles their natural environment.
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