QUESTION 7 To attempt to take advantage of the failure of one’s opponent to cross every t and dot every i, to spell out what should be taken for granted.                 A.            Quibble                 B.            Questionable Cause                 C.           

Accepting an unsuitable practice because doing so follows an accepted way of doing things.

A.

Categorical Proposition

B.

Irrelevant Reason

C.

Worldview

D.

Traditional Wisdom

 

QUESTION 2

 

A way of saying something that literally says one thing though the intended meaning is something else, usually opposite to its literal meaning.

A.

Puffery

B.

Tokenism

C.

Analogy

D.

Irony

 

QUESTION 3

 

The positive or negative overtones of a word or expression.

A.

Composition

B.

Denial

C.

Emotive Meaning

D.

Biased Statistics

QUESTION 4

 

The fallacy in which a wrong is justified on the grounds that lots or most others do that sort of thing.

A.

Ad Hominem Attack

B.

Irrelevant Reason

C.

Suppressed Evidence

D.

Common Practice

QUESTION 5

 

A reason offered in support of an argument’s conclusion.

A.

Equivocation

B.

Premise

C.

Categorical Proposition

D.

Worldview

QUESTION 6

 

The predicate of the conclusion of a syllogism.

A.

Questionable Premise

B.

Major Term

C.

Tokenism

D.

Composition

QUESTION 7

 

To attempt to take advantage of the failure of one’s opponent to cross every t and dot every i, to spell out what should be taken for granted.

A.

Quibble

B.

Questionable Cause

C.

Provincialism

D.

Appeal to Authority

QUESTION 8

 

Generalized, vague, or exaggerated claims, particularly when asserted humorously

A.