Details Title: Fallacies Group Three Description: N/A Total Flash Cards: 9 Created: 02/26/2009 13:54:52		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Debate/Speech Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Inconsistency Definition Fallacy occurs when an arguement is presented that is self-contradictory or self defeating. The person is thus inconsistent because he or she says or argues one thing and then does the opposite. Term Questionable Premise Definition Fallacy occurs when a person assumes the truth of the premise and then proceeds to a conclusion without testing the validity or rationality of that premise. The premise is so questionable (based on such scanty evidence) that it is not even worth considering the conclusion. Term Questionable Cause Definition Fallacy occurs when an arguer concludes that one thing causes another simply because the two are associated on a regular basis, or because something occurred after something else. Thus, A is the cause of B simply because they are associate on a regular basis, or because B occurred after A. The error being made is that a causal connection is being drawn from inadequate evidence Term Questionable or Unknowable Statistics Definition Fallacy occurs when someone bases an argument upon statistics, which for any number of reasons, may be false or misleading. Term Small Sample Definition Fallacy occurs when someone bases an argument upon statistics, which for any number of reasons, may be false or misleading. Term Unrepresentative Sample Definition Fallacy occurs when an arguer makes a generalization or reaches a conclusion based on a sample that does not accurately reflect the characteristics of the whole group from which it was taken. Term Fallacy of Composition Definition This fallacy assumes that an item has a particular quality because some of its parts have that quality. Term Fallacy of Division Definition Fallacy occurs when someone assumes that all the individual parts of an item have a quality because the item as a whole has the quality. Term Gambling Fallacy Definition Fallacy occurs when someone bases an argument on the possibility of an outcome, not on the probability of an outcome.