Test II: Language and Informal Fallacies

Important Concepts: be able to characterize and give examples.

the forms and functions of language		the types of sentences
informative use		expressive use
directive use		factual significance
emotive significance		disagreement in belief
disagreement in attitude		varieties of disagreements
methods of dispute resolution		slanted language
emotively neutral language		phatic language
performative utterances		ad ignorantiam
ad verecundiam		ad hominem
ad misericordiam		ad baculum
ignoratio elenchi		complex question
false cause		petitio principii
accident		converse accident

Important Skills: be able to do the following kinds of problems.

1. analyze and resolve disagreements in belief and attitude
2. distinguish among the forms and functions of language
3. identify and analyze informal fallacies

Important Distinctions: be able to list differences and give examples.

1. declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative sentences
2. belief and attitude
3. emotive and neutral language
4. accident and converse accident
5. fallacies of relevance and presumption

Example test is online:
http://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/fallacies_test.html