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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. 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.
Scare Tatics
Appeals to False Authority Example
Hasty Generalization
Slippery Slope
2. I don't support the President's foreign policy; look at the disastrous way he has taken care of our domestic economy.
Begging the Question EX.
Slippery Slope Example
Red herring Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
3. Everyone else is going out and getting drunk tonight - so you should too.
Equivocation Example
Scare Tatics
Dogmatism Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
4. Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty - lazy hippies.
Slippery Slope
Ad hominem Example
Hasty Generalization
Either/Or. Example
5. Either you support the president in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American
Ad hominem Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Either/Or. Example
Dogmatism
6. Because of the possibility of a terrorist hijacking or mechanical failure - flying on a plane is too dangerous and should be avoided altogether.
Faulty Analogy Example
Scare Tatics Example
Equivocation Example
Slippery Slope Example
7. This is a diversionary tactic that avoid key issues - often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them.
Red Herring
Red herring Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Slippery Slope
8. 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.
Faulty Analogy Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
9. The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe - but what will fishers do to support their families?
Ad hominem Example
Begging the Question
Red herring Example
Equivocation Example
10. 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.
Non sequitur Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Causality
Bandwagon Appeal Example
11. 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.
Either/Or.
Dogmatism Example
Equivocation Example
Red Herring Example
12. 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.)
Equivocation Example
Either/Or. Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Hasty Generalization
13. This argument gives a lie an honest appearance - by insisting on What is only partially or formally true.
Either/Or. Example
Non sequitur Example
Equivocation
Non sequitur Example
14. 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.
Red Herring Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Ad hominem Example
Hasty Generalization Example
15. This sort of argument relies on the faulty assumption that because one event follows another - the second necessarily causes the first
Bandwagon appeal
Faulty Causality
Hasty Generalization
Red Herring Example
16. Here's what I think about what you have written: anyone who opposes the death penalty for murder is a criminal at heart.
Hasty Generalization Example
Dogmatism
Ad hominem Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
17. We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.
Begging the Question
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Analogy
Dogmatism
18. 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.
Non sequitur Example
Red herring Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Slippery Slope
19. This fallacy of argument recommends a course of action on the grounds that everyone else is following the same path.
Bandwagon appeal
Appeals to False Authority
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Analogy
20. The writer suggest that readers should listen and follow what someone has to say about something that he or she is in fact not a credible - reliable authority on.
Red herring Example
Appeals to False Authority
Hasty Generalization Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
21. 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.
Red herring Example
Faulty Analogy
Appeals to False Authority Example
Faulty Causality Example
22. 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
Equivocation
Red Herring Example
Sentimental Appeals Example
Scare Tatics
23. Even though it's only the first day - I can tell this is going to be a boring course.
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Causality Example
Equivocation Example
Slippery Slope Example
24. 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.
Faulty Analogy
Slippery Slope
Sentimental Appeals
Straw Man
25. In this case the writer forms an argument which leaves out a necessary portion in a logical sequence - seeming to suggest a logical connection when in fact one does not exist.
Non sequitur
Hasty Generalization Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Ad hominem Example
26. This is a conclusion based on insufficient evidence. In other words - you are rushing to a conclusion before you have all the relevant facts.
Slippery Slope Example
Dogmatism Example
Hasty Generalization
Red herring Example
27. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than her/his opinions or arguments.
Begging the Question Example
Slippery Slope
Ad hominem
Scare Tatics Example
28. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.
Hasty Generalization Example
Either/Or. Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Slippery Slope Example
29. I drank bottled water and now I am sick - so the water must have made me sick.
Begging the Question Example
Ad hominem
Slippery Slope Example
Faulty Causality Example
30. 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
Faulty Analogy Example
Dogmatism
Scare Tatics Example
Ad hominem Example
31. 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
Ad hominem Example
Red herring Example
Bandwagon appeal
32. She is feminist; she must hate men.
Non sequitur Example
Slippery Slope Example
Red Herring
Dogmatism Example
33. 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.
Faulty Causality Example
Scare Tatics Example
Hasty Generalization
Faulty Analogy Example
34. 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.
Slippery Slope Example
Ad hominem Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
35. This is a conclusion that oversimplifies the argument by reducing it only to two sides or choices.
Begging the Question
Either/Or.
Ad hominem Example
Equivocation
36. 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.
Straw Man
Straw Man Example
Either/Or. Example
Appeals to False Authority
37. 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.
Slippery Slope Example
Faulty Causality Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Either/Or.
38. Everyone else is displaying a flag - or a support our troops sticker on their car - therefore - you should too.
Either/Or.
Either/Or. Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Slippery Slope Example
39. You can't give me a C - I'm an A student.
Faulty Analogy
Hasty Generalization
Begging the Question EX.
Begging the Question Example
40. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
Scare Tatics
Appeals to False Authority
Begging the Question Example
Dogmatism
41. 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
Either/Or.
Slipper Slop Example
Begging the Question Example
42. 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.
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Analogy
Equivocation Example
Equivocation Example
43. My friend - who is serving in infantry in Iraq - tells me that the government has a secret plan for how to win the war that they won't release until after the election - and because he is my friend and I like and respect him - this must be true.
Sentimental Appeals
Appeals to False Authority Example
Faulty Analogy
Dogmatism Example
44. If we can Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars - so we should not ban hummers.
Slipper Slop Example
Begging the Question
Either/Or. Example
Dogmatism Example
45. If you restrict my right to say whatever I want however I want this is the beginning of totalitarianism in America.
Ad hominem Example
Begging the Question EX.
Either/Or.
Slippery Slope Example
46. 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.
Sentimental Appeals Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Slipper Slop Example
Scare Tatics Example
47. 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.
Dogmatism
Sentimental Appeals
Begging the Question
Non sequitur Example
48. I can't be guilty of embezzlement; I'm an honest person.
Scare Tatics
Dogmatism Example
Straw Man
Begging the Question Example
49. 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.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Either/Or. Example
Begging the Question
Appeals to False Authority Example
50. Relying on manipulatively heart-warming or heart-wrenching appeals to emotion to win support for what has not been otherwise rationally justified.
Either/Or. Example
Sentimental Appeals
Slippery Slope Example
Red herring Example