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Argumentation and Critical Thinking Tutorial

INFORMAL FALLACY DEFINITIONS GROUP 3
TEST #2

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Plurium interrogationum. is the fallacy of many questions, and happens when someone asks a question that either includes a hidden assumption or asks two questions at the same time, then demands a yes or no answer. The hidden assumption and the multiple questions make a straightforward yes or no answer unreasonable because the answer would result in an unwanted admission.

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Arguing that a claim must be true because there is no evidence that it is false is which of the following fallacies?

a priori

Extension

Appeal to ignorance

plurium interrogationum