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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What fallacy involves assuming a false range of choices?

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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