Question

12B. Which fallacy does the following statement or argument commit: “The problem with the Giants is the Loma Prieta earthquake. They haven't won a league championship since the earthquake hit during the World Series in 1989.”(a) False cause(b) weak analogy(c) hasty generalization (d) slippery slope (e) straw man

13B.Which fallacy does the following statement or argument commit: “If we had left Saddam in power, every other despot in the region would get overconfident, then all the ones in Latin America and Africa, and before you know it we will be threatened by the entire Third World.”(a) Slippery slope(b) weak analogy(c) Untestability(d) accident(e) Straw man

14B. Which fallacy does the following statement or argument commit: “The man and his family disappeared for a week, no one could find them. They did not show up to school or work. Their family members and neighbors were all worried. They must have been abducted by aliens and returned a week later.”(a) red herring(b) Untestability(c) false cause(d) Hasty generalization(e) accident

Answer 1

12b

d. slippery slope

A slippery slope argument takes an initial premise and sees it through a chain of consequences until you arrive at an unacceptable, or disastrous outcome. Premise A leads to B, which leads to C, which leads to D, and so on. The final result is then used to assert why the initial premise ("A") is bad.

13b

e. straw man

A straw man  is a form of argument and an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent.

14b

a. red herring

A red herring usually appears either as a literary device, where it is used in order to intentionally mislead readers,