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Match the fallacy with its name.


Victoria enjoys dance class; all girls enjoy dance class.


non-sequitur

bandwagon

black-or-white

straw man

ad hominem

oversimplication/hasty generalization



Match the fallacy with its name.


The Gorps would have you believe that all you need to be happy is green beans, but those of us with heads on our shoulders know better.


non-sequitur

bandwagon

black-or-white

straw man

ad hominem

oversimplication/hasty generalization

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Greenleafable

The correct answer for 1 is oversimplification/hasty generalization

It is hastily generalized that just because Victoria is a girl and likes dancing, that all girls like dancing.

The correct answer for 2 should be ad hominem

He is not providing any argument to counter their statement, he is attacking them that they don't have heads.


holesstanham

Answer:

  • oversimplication/hasty generalization
  • ad hominem

Explanation:

  • The fallacy of hasty generalization is an informal fallacy in which a person reaches a generalization without having sufficient evidence to do so. In this case, the speaker has reached the conclusion that all girls like dance based on a single case.
  • Ad hominem is a fallacious argument in which the person attacks the character, motive or other attribute of the opponent, instead of attacking his argument. In this case, the speaker is attacking the Gorps for who they are, as opposed to attacking the argument they are putting forward.

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