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Logical Fallacies

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. You can't give me a C - I'm an A student.
Either/Or. Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Analogy
Begging the Question EX.

2. Everyone else is going out and getting drunk tonight - so you should too.
Red Herring Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Sentimental Appeals
Sentimental Appeals Example

3. 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
Slippery Slope Example
Ad hominem Example
Appeals to False Authority

4. 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.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Dogmatism Example
Equivocation Example
Begging the Question

5. 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
Equivocation Example
Dogmatism
Ad hominem Example

6. 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
Hasty Generalization
Dogmatism Example
Appeals to False Authority Example

7. If you restrict my right to say whatever I want however I want this is the beginning of totalitarianism in America.
Hasty Generalization Example
Slippery Slope Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Non sequitur

8. 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.
Appeals to False Authority
Sentimental Appeals Example
Either/Or. Example
Hasty Generalization Example

9. 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.
Bandwagon appeal
Red herring Example
Slippery Slope Example
Appeals to False Authority

10. I can't be guilty of embezzlement; I'm an honest person.
Hasty Generalization Example
Bandwagon appeal
Begging the Question Example
Ad hominem Example

11. Even though it's only the first day - I can tell this is going to be a boring course.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Either/Or.
Hasty Generalization Example
Bandwagon appeal

12. 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.
Ad hominem Example
Begging the Question
Faulty Analogy Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex

13. Either you support the president in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American
Ad hominem Example
Begging the Question Example
Either/Or. Example
Begging the Question EX.

14. There's no way that anyone can argue that abortion is anything other than murder.
Non sequitur Example
Ad hominem
Dogmatism Example
Begging the Question Example

15. 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.
Hasty Generalization Example
Ad hominem Example
Dogmatism
Ad hominem Example

16. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.
Hasty Generalization Example
Scare Tatics Example
Red herring Example
Either/Or. Example

17. 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
Equivocation Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example

18. Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty - lazy hippies.
Equivocation
Slippery Slope
Faulty Causality Example
Ad hominem Example

19. She is feminist; she must hate men.
Non sequitur Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Scare Tatics Example
Faulty Analogy

20. 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.
Begging the Question Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Slippery Slope

21. We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.
Sentimental Appeals Example
Scare Tatics Example
Either/Or. Example
Appeals to False Authority Example

22. This fallacy of argument recommends a course of action on the grounds that everyone else is following the same path.
Equivocation Example
Begging the Question
Red Herring
Bandwagon appeal

23. If we can Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars - so we should not ban hummers.
Begging the Question
Faulty Analogy Example
Slipper Slop Example
Appeals to False Authority Example

24. Because of the possibility of a terrorist hijacking or mechanical failure - flying on a plane is too dangerous and should be avoided altogether.
Scare Tatics Example
Faulty Analogy
Faulty Causality Example
Slippery Slope Example

25. 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.
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Slippery Slope
Dogmatism
Hasty Generalization

26. This is a conclusion that oversimplifies the argument by reducing it only to two sides or choices.
Begging the Question Example
Scare Tatics
Slippery Slope Example
Either/Or.

27. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
Ad hominem Example
Either/Or. Example
Straw Man Example
Begging the Question Example

28. Relying on manipulatively heart-warming or heart-wrenching appeals to emotion to win support for what has not been otherwise rationally justified.
Hasty Generalization Example
Sentimental Appeals
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Scare Tatics Example

29. I knew a gay guy who was not very masculine; this just goes to show that gay guys are more effeminate than straight men.
Slippery Slope Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Non sequitur
Sentimental Appeals. Ex

30. 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
Faulty Analogy Example
Begging the Question Example
Slippery Slope

31. The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe - but what will fishers do to support their families?
Equivocation Example
Dogmatism
Red herring Example
Slippery Slope Example

32. 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.
Dogmatism Example
Red Herring Example
Faulty Causality
Faulty Causality Example

33. 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.
Bandwagon appeal
Equivocation
Faulty Analogy
Either/Or. Example

34. Everyone else is displaying a flag - or a support our troops sticker on their car - therefore - you should too.
Faulty Analogy
Bandwagon appeal
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Ad hominem Example

35. This argument gives a lie an honest appearance - by insisting on What is only partially or formally true.
Ad hominem Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Equivocation
Equivocation Example

36. 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)
Slippery Slope Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Equivocation Example
Begging the Question

37. 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.
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Dogmatism
Non sequitur Example
Straw Man Example

38. 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
Faulty Analogy Example
Dogmatism
Non sequitur Example

39. 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.
Begging the Question Example
Sentimental Appeals
Appeals to False Authority Example
Hasty Generalization Example

40. I drank bottled water and now I am sick - so the water must have made me sick.
Faulty Causality Example
Appeals to False Authority
Slipper Slop Example
Slippery Slope

41. 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.
Hasty Generalization Example
Dogmatism
Faulty Analogy Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex

42. 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.
Scare Tatics Example
Faulty Causality Example
Appeals to False Authority
Slippery Slope Example

43. 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
Dogmatism Example
Sentimental Appeals Example
Faulty Causality Example
Hasty Generalization Example

44. This argumentative fallacy in which the rhetor frames an issue in terms of exaggerated threats or dangers.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Begging the Question Example
Scare Tatics
Slippery Slope Example

45. 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.
Slippery Slope Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Non sequitur
Equivocation Example

46. 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
Slippery Slope
Ad hominem Example
Ad hominem Example

47. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than her/his opinions or arguments.
Begging the Question Example
Ad hominem
Scare Tatics Example
Begging the Question Example

48. 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 Example
Red Herring Example
Begging the Question Example
Begging the Question

49. 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
Ad hominem
Bandwagon appeal
Faulty Causality Example

50. This sort of argument relies on the faulty assumption that because one event follows another - the second necessarily causes the first
Red herring Example
Non sequitur Example
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Causality