1)"You're a reasonable man. You'll have to vote for Candidate X. He's a reasonable man like you." This is an example of a stereotype fallacy
True or False
2)The following quote dates from the time of the Holocaust and can be found in Baynes, The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: "The influence of this intellectual Jewish class in Germany had everywhere a disintegrating effect" (p. 732). This is an example of
a.False Analogy.
b.Scapegoating.
c.Red Herring.
d.Begging the question.
3)The following quote is from a 2005 speech given by futurist James Kunstler: "No combination of alternative fuel systems currently known will allow us to run what we are running, the way we're running it, or even a substantial fraction of it." This is an example of
a.Group think.
b.False cause/effect.
c.Hasty generalization.
d.Flattery.
4)In his 2007 book, The Cult of the Amateur, Andrew Keen states, "[Wikipedia] is the blind leading the blind-infinite monkeys providing infinite information for infinite readers, perpetuating the cycle of misinformation and ignorance" (p. 4). This is an example of
a.Ad Hominem.
b.Slippery Slope.
c.Begging the Question.
d.Non Sequitur.