Which of the following are fallacies of relevance? equivocation and division hasty generalization and false analogy faulty analogy and non sequitur popular appeal and personal attack
Answer: popular appeal and personal attack.
Fallacies
of relevance fail to provide relevant and sufficient reasons to support its
conclusion. Popular appeal (argumentum ad
populum) believes a statement is true when the majority believes it is true. This
is a fallacy of relevance because the truth of a statement is solely based upon
the circumstances whether or not everyone regards it as true or not instead of
focusing on the statement itself.
On the
other hand, personal attack (argumentum
ad hominem) makes the person giving the statement appear bad in order to
discredit their statements. This fallacy attempts to steer away the
conversation into another issue and therefore making its conclusion an invalid
one.