Question

1. Since Carol plays on a great volleyball team, she is a great volleyball player.

What is the fallacy? a) fallacy of composition b) syntactic ambiguity c) semantic ambiguity d) hasty generalization e) fallacy of division

2. A factual claim may be false. a) true b) false

3. The most common types of definitions are definition by synonym, definition by example, and ____________. a) rhetorical definition b) analytical definition c) subjective definition d) dictionary definition

4. The red planet is Mars. This definition is ___________. a) definition by example b) an analytic definition c) a definition by synonym d) a rhetorical definition  

5.  He is just a child. In this sentence "child" may be a) too vague b) ambiguous c) too general d) all of the above e) none of the above

Answer 1

1. Since Carol plays on a great volleyball team, she is a great volleyball player. What is the fallacy?

ANSWER- d) hasty generalization

2. A factual claim may be false.

ANSWER- a) true

3. The most common types of definitions are definition by synonym, definition by example, and ____________.

ANSWER- a) Subjective definition

4. The red planet is Mars. This definition is ___________.

ANSWER- a) definition by synonym

5.  He is just a child. In this sentence "child" may be-

ANSWER- c) too general