Chapter 11 Pretest. Circle the numbers of the true statements. Cross out the false ones

1. You should always agree with someone who can hurt you if you disagree.

2. You should always believe those claims that you most deeply want to be true.

3. You should always think the way your opponant wants you to think.

4. You should always define "facts" as "what your opponant wants you to believe. "

5. You should only make the distinctions your opponant wants you to make.

6. The way something started always determines the way it is now.

7. Perceptions are the same as reality.

8. If a claim involves enormous suffering to innocent people, then that claim can't possibly be true.

9. If any part of what you say is a bad argument, then the whole of what you say is a bad argument.

10. The the morality of my actions depends on what words I use to describe my actions.

11. If the way I use a particular word is different from the way you define it, I can refute your argument, based on your meaning of the word, with a counter argument based on my meaning of the word.

12. If I can show that an argument that sounds very much like your argument is stupid, then I've shown that your exact argument is stupid.

13. If a policy is very, very popular, that means it couldn't possibly be a bad policy.

14. If someone is believed to be a good person, then he or she couldn't have ever done anything wrong.

15. The leaders of your country couldn't possibly ever do anything seriously wrong

16. If someone wants you to ignore certain facts, then you should ignore those facts.

17. People always give the correct moral description of their own actions.

18. You should never introduce true facts that induce strong emotions in people.

19. You should never say that those who gave their lives for a cause might have died in vain.

20. You should never introduce true facts that don't support your opponant's argument.

21. You should never believe things that the rest of society doesn't believe.

22. You should never choose an option that your opponant doesn't want you to consider.

23. You should never get someone to believe things by playing on their feelings

24. You should never pretend that there are fewer choices than there really are.

25. You should never emphasize a fact that has nothing to do with the issue, even if its true.

26. You should never make a thing seem better by calling it by an inappropriate name.

27. You should never try to get people to agree with you by threatening them.

28. You should never make someone else's beliefs sound bad by parodying those beliefs

29. You cannot prove an argument bad by refuting a similar-sounding but logically different argument.

30. Just because you can define some entity as the only possible source of some real thing, doesn't mean that the existance of that real thing proves that your entity exists.

31. You cannot refute my argument by taking only part of that argument, calling it my whole argument, and then refuting that.

32. Calling some action by the name of something good doesn't matter. What matters is whether or not the action could reasonably have been expected to have good or bad consequences.