Moral Reasoning - Fallacies
11 important questions on Moral Reasoning - Fallacies
What are the classical formal fallacies?
- Fallacy of denying the antecendent.
- Fallacy of affirming the consequent.
What is the fallacy of denying the antecedent?
2. P is false.
Therefore
3. Q is false
Example: if gods exists, then abortion is immoral. God doesn't exist, therefor abortion is morally OK.
What is a ad hominem fallacy?
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What is the fallacy of affirming the consequent?
2. Q is true
Therefore
3. P is true.
Example: if God exists, then morality is objective. Morality is objective, therefore, God exists.
What are the informal fallacies?
- Ad hominem fallacy.
- Appeal to authority, involves relying on authority figures.
- Appeal to ignorance
- when one thinks that a claim is true because it hasn't been proven false.
- when one thinks that a claim is false because it hasn't been proven true.
- Hasty generalization, which occurs when someone illicitly draws a general lesson from only a small handful of cases.
What is the ad hominem fallacy?
What is the appeal to irrelevant emotions?
What is the appeal to authority?
What is the straw man fallacy?
What is the appeal to ignorance?
What is a hasty generalization?
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