1、Consider the following dialogue:Hokey: I know that I will go to Heaven when I die.Pokey: How do you know that?Hokey: Because my cleric tells me that I will.Pokey: How do you know that what your cleric says is true?Hokey: Because the Holy Book te
A、 begging the question.
B、 equivocating.
C、 sliding down a slippery slope.
D、 All of the above.
E、 None of the above.
2、Consider the following dialogue:Hanky: The birth of a child is a blessed event!Panky: So you say, but there are some who worry about human overpopulation, and they deny this.Hanky: This is because they do not know how to tell blessed events from unbl
A、 question-begging.
B、 irrefutable.
C、 equivocal.
D、 All of the above.
E、 None of the above.
3、An argument begs the question when
A、 you have no reason to believe the premises.
B、 you have no reason to believe the premises unless you already have a reason to believe the conclusion.
C、 you have no reason to believe the conclusion unless you already have a reason to believe t
4、An argument is circular if
A、 the conclusion follows from the premises.
B、 the conclusion does not follow from the premises.
C、 the conclusion is one of the premises.
D、 the conclusion is the only premise.
E、 the conclusion is distinct from the premises.
5、Consider the following dialogue:Akey: Those who have been enlightened recognize that the purpose of our life is to carry out Zeus’s orders, as laid down in this ancient document.Brakey: Why should I believe that? Why shouldn’t I live my life in the w
A、 false.
B、 true.
C、 believed.
D、 refuted.
E、 All of the above.
6、Which of the following claims is irrefutable?
A、 Anyone who believes in God can feel His presence.
B、 This year, the United States has a larger population than Brazil.
C、 The Earth is larger than the Moon.
D、 Pluto does not orbit around the Sun.
E、 None of the above.
7、Consider the following argument:“There is a report in the Wall Street Journal that says that the Financial Times is a very reliable newspaper. But when we look at the Financial Times, we see a report that says that the Wall Street Journal is a very r
A、 fallacy of vagueness.
B、 fallacy of equivocation resulting from semantic ambiguity.
C、 fallacy of equivocation resulting from syntactic ambiguity.
D、 begging the question.
E、 counterexample to all arguments.
