GOVT 215 Quiz: Introduction to Fallacies
Module 2: Week 2
- Choose the best answer to fill in the blanks. ______________ ________________: reasoning from particular instances to general principles.
- Choose the best answer to fill in the blanks. _____________ ________________ is the process of reasoning from a general statement to a particular one.
- Many lawyers are surprised to learn that the arguments they encounter and deliver every day are governed by the rules of logic.
- In a disjunctive syllogism, the conclusion follows from the relationship between the concepts in the premises and their membership in certain categories.
- Lawyers use logic in which contexts?
- In logic, an argument that violates a rule is said to be:
- Choose the best answer to fill in the blank. The most basic structure of formal logic is the
- Both hypothetical syllogism and categorical syllogism focus on the logical relationships between concepts at the macro level.
- The “if . . . then” arguments that lawyers often confront are hypothetical syllogisms.
- Inductive reasoning is the most effective tool for completing legal tasks.