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Logical Fallacies
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Subject
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logic-and-reasoning
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. If we can Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars - so we should not ban hummers.
Equivocation
Slipper Slop Example
Ad hominem
Sentimental Appeals
2. Because of the possibility of poisoning of Halloween candy by some people who give it out to trick or treaters - communities should ban trick-or-treating.
Ad hominem
Sentimental Appeals Example
Scare Tatics Example
Faulty Analogy Example
3. I gave you everything i had to give to you(right then and there when you asked me - but of course everything I could have given you if I took into account what I maintain elsewhere.)
Hasty Generalization Example
Red herring Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Equivocation Example
4. That celebrity is suffering a lot of pain and aguish after breaking p with his girlfriend and coming through drug and alcohol rehabilitation treatment; he is a role model for all of us - and needs us to support him by his albums and going to his movi
Sentimental Appeals Example
Either/Or. Example
Non sequitur Example
Scare Tatics Example
5. She is feminist; she must hate men.
Non sequitur
Faulty Analogy
Either/Or.
Non sequitur Example
6. This is a conclusion that oversimplifies the argument by reducing it only to two sides or choices.
Red Herring
Either/Or.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Faulty Analogy Example
7. Even though it's only the first day - I can tell this is going to be a boring course.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Red Herring
Hasty Generalization Example
8. It has been scientifically proven that people need to drink a certain amount of water every day to keep healthy. Water is liquid and so is beer. Therefore people should be able to substitute beer for water - drinking beer each day as doctors recommen
Non sequitur
Hasty Generalization
Faulty Analogy Example
Ad hominem Example
9. Either you support the president in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American
Either/Or. Example
Red Herring Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Appeals to False Authority
10. Britney Spears says that George W. Bush has got a great plan for the economy - and so therefore I am supporting him because I trust what she has to say.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Faulty Causality
Non sequitur
11. I don't support the President's foreign policy; look at the disastrous way he has taken care of our domestic economy.
Red herring Example
Begging the Question
Faulty Causality Example
Scare Tatics Example
12. You can't trust jim to do a good job as student body president; he doesn't dress with an up-to-date sense of style.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Non sequitur Example
Red Herring Example
Straw Man
13. Person: A we should liberalize the laws one beer B: No any society with unrestricted access to intoxicants loses its work ethic and goes only for immediate gratification.
Either/Or. Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Straw Man Example
Non sequitur
14. This is a conclusion based on insufficient evidence. In other words - you are rushing to a conclusion before you have all the relevant facts.
Either/Or. Example
Hasty Generalization
Slippery Slope Example
Red Herring
15. I drank bottled water and now I am sick - so the water must have made me sick.
Scare Tatics Example
Faulty Causality Example
Slippery Slope Example
Non sequitur Example
16. Everyone else is going out and getting drunk tonight - so you should too.
Dogmatism
Ad hominem Example
Scare Tatics Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
17. We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.
Either/Or.
Dogmatism Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Either/Or. Example
18. This argument gives a lie an honest appearance - by insisting on What is only partially or formally true.
Either/Or. Example
Red Herring
Equivocation
Ad hominem Example
19. This fallacy of argument recommends a course of action on the grounds that everyone else is following the same path.
Ad hominem Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Bandwagon appeal
Appeals to False Authority
20. Relying on manipulatively heart-warming or heart-wrenching appeals to emotion to win support for what has not been otherwise rationally justified.
Faulty Analogy
Either/Or. Example
Scare Tatics Example
Sentimental Appeals
21. The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe - but what will fishers do to support their families?
Red herring Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Equivocation
Sentimental Appeals
22. This involves drawing an analogy that is based upon faulty equations or identifications of terms. The writer makes a comparisons between two objects which is either inaccurate or inconsequential.
Faulty Analogy
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Ad hominem Example
Dogmatism
23. I can't be guilty of embezzlement; I'm an honest person.
Faulty Analogy Example
Ad hominem Example
Non sequitur
Begging the Question Example
24. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
Begging the Question Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Dogmatism Example
Hasty Generalization Example
25. I did not have sex with that woman(if by sex you mean penile-vaginal intercourse). (from bill clinton in relation of the nature of his relationship with monica lewinsky)
Equivocation Example
Faulty Causality Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Equivocation
26. The conclusion that the writer should prove is validated within the claim. The author assumes as true they very claim that is disputed - in a circular argument.
Dogmatism Example
Slipper Slop Example
Either/Or. Example
Begging the Question
27. This is a conclusion based on the premise that if A happens - then eventually through a series of small steps - through B -C -...X -Y -Z will happen - too basically equating A and Z.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Slippery Slope
Scare Tatics Example
28. Everyone else is displaying a flag - or a support our troops sticker on their car - therefore - you should too.
Sentimental Appeals Example
Begging the Question
Straw Man Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
29. Students in kindergarten at Jefferson Elementary school did better when given milk and cookies than when not; therefore students at UWEC will do better too if they are given milk and cookies in class.
Scare Tatics Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Slippery Slope
30. There's no way that anyone can argue that abortion is anything other than murder.
Dogmatism Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Non sequitur Example
Hasty Generalization
31. You can't give me a C - I'm an A student.
Begging the Question EX.
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Equivocation Example
32. This logical fallacy proposes that there are simply cannot be another possible way of making sense of and engaging with an issue but the one you represent.
Faulty Analogy Example
Red Herring Example
Straw Man Example
Dogmatism
33. This sort of argument relies on the faulty assumption that because one event follows another - the second necessarily causes the first
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Causality
Scare Tatics Example
Slipper Slop Example
34. Here's what I think about what you have written: anyone who opposes the death penalty for murder is a criminal at heart.
Ad hominem
Straw Man
Straw Man Example
Ad hominem Example
35. The administration closed the smoking court in our school at the end of the last year - and fights among students have gone down his year; therefore - closing the smoking court caused the reaction in fights among students.
Faulty Causality Example
Straw Man
Straw Man Example
Red herring Example
36. A black family move into my neighborhood once - and they were financially quite well-off - better than we were; this proves that black people actually are economically equal to whites.
Red herring Example
Ad hominem
Either/Or. Example
Hasty Generalization Example
37. That boy scout made an old lady's day by visiting and entertaining her in her nursing home; we should give generously to the boy scouts as a result.
Slippery Slope Example
Equivocation
Either/Or.
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
38. I knew a gay guy who was not very masculine; this just goes to show that gay guys are more effeminate than straight men.
Ad hominem Example
Non sequitur Example
Straw Man
Hasty Generalization Example
39. Because of the possibility of a terrorist hijacking or mechanical failure - flying on a plane is too dangerous and should be avoided altogether.
Slipper Slop Example
Non sequitur Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Scare Tatics Example
40. There's no way a man could love a man or a woman love a woman as much as a man and woman love each other.
Dogmatism Example
Bandwagon appeal
Ad hominem Example
Ad hominem Example
41. In listening to what you have to say I have this to say in reply: only an idiot would argue for pursuing a peaceful solution to this conflict.
Ad hominem Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Analogy
42. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.
Non sequitur Example
Either/Or.
Scare Tatics Example
Either/Or. Example
43. This argumentative fallacy in which the rhetor frames an issue in terms of exaggerated threats or dangers.
Equivocation
Scare Tatics
Appeals to False Authority
Scare Tatics Example
44. Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty - lazy hippies.
Ad hominem Example
Non sequitur
Straw Man Example
Either/Or.
45. American students' relatively poor performance in foreign language and geography examinations means that they should be subjected to regular standardized tests in these two areas each year throughout their mandatory period of schooling.
Hasty Generalization Example
Red Herring Example
Either/Or. Example
Non sequitur Example
46. If you restrict my right to say whatever I want however I want this is the beginning of totalitarianism in America.
Ad hominem
Slippery Slope Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Bandwagon appeal
47. This move oversimplifies an opponents' view point and then attacks that hollow argument. This opponents position is misrepresented as being more extreme than it actually is - so it becomes easier to refute.
Begging the Question
Dogmatism
Straw Man
Either/Or.
48. This is a diversionary tactic that avoid key issues - often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them.
Dogmatism Example
Sentimental Appeals
Red Herring
Red herring Example
49. If we let homosexual couple live on our street before you know it our neighborhood will start to become like Greenwich Village in New York or the Castro District in San Francisco.
Begging the Question Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Ad hominem
Slippery Slope Example
50. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than her/his opinions or arguments.
Dogmatism
Equivocation
Ad hominem
Slippery Slope Example