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What fallacy involves drawing a broad conclusion from a small set of data?

What fallacy involves asserting that a compromise between two extremes must be true?

In logic, what is a statement that expresses a conditional relationship between two propositions called?

What fallacy involves assuming that one's opponents intend the worst possible outcome?

What fallacy involves claiming a piece of evidence supports or refutes a claim when it is actually irrelevant to the claim?

What fallacy involves assuming that a part of something has to be representative of the whole?

What fallacy involves dismissing someone's argument due to their hypocrisy rather than addressing the argument itself?

What fallacy involves assuming that because two events occur together, one must be the cause of the other?

What fallacy involves assuming that future events will necessarily follow a particular pattern because they have in the past?

In logical reasoning, what does a 'parallel reasoning' question require you to do?

In logical reasoning, what is a question that asks you to select the choice that describes an assumption required by the argument?

In logical reasoning, what does the term 'counterexample' refer to?

What fallacy involves assuming a false range of choices?

In critical reasoning, what term describes a statement that supports the main conclusion?

What fallacy involves making a general rule based on a few, unrepresentative cases?

In the context of logical reasoning, what is the term for a minor premise that typically provides specific information linking the major premise to the conclusion?

If a conclusion cannot be true unless a certain condition is met, what logical relationship does the condition have to the conclusion?

What fallacy involves assuming that a complex phenomenon can be explained by something simpler than is actually required?

In logical reasoning, what type of question asks you to identify the conclusion of an argument?

In logical reasoning, what kind of question involves predicting what follows logically from a given set of rules?

In the context of logical reasoning, what is a 'sufficient assumption' question asking for?

What fallacy involves an argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or most people believe it?

In the context of logical reasoning, what does a 'flaw question' ask you to do?

What fallacy involves concluding that one event caused another simply because it occurred first?

What fallacy involves assuming that a proposition is true simply because it has not been proven false, or vice versa?