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Logical Fallacies

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1. I knew a gay guy who was not very masculine; this just goes to show that gay guys are more effeminate than straight men.
Sentimental Appeals Example
Hasty Generalization
Hasty Generalization Example
Begging the Question Example

2. Here's what I think about what you have written: anyone who opposes the death penalty for murder is a criminal at heart.
Dogmatism Example
Scare Tatics
Faulty Analogy
Ad hominem Example

3. I don't support the President's foreign policy; look at the disastrous way he has taken care of our domestic economy.
Non sequitur Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Red herring Example
Faulty Causality

4. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than her/his opinions or arguments.
Hasty Generalization
Ad hominem
Straw Man
Begging the Question Example

5. This is a conclusion based on insufficient evidence. In other words - you are rushing to a conclusion before you have all the relevant facts.
Slipper Slop Example
Dogmatism
Slippery Slope Example
Hasty Generalization

6. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.
Faulty Analogy Example
Red Herring Example
Either/Or. Example
Either/Or.

7. Either you support the president in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American
Non sequitur Example
Either/Or. Example
Dogmatism
Ad hominem Example

8. You can't give me a C - I'm an A student.
Begging the Question EX.
Slippery Slope Example
Dogmatism Example
Either/Or.

9. 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 Example
Slippery Slope
Appeals to False Authority Example
Sentimental Appeals Example

10. 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
Hasty Generalization
Faulty Analogy Example
Faulty Causality Example
Non sequitur Example

11. 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.
Ad hominem
Begging the Question Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Bandwagon appeal

12. 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.
Slippery Slope Example
Red herring Example
Appeals to False Authority
Bandwagon Appeal Example

13. Everyone else is going out and getting drunk tonight - so you should too.
Equivocation Example
Begging the Question Example
Begging the Question Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example

14. 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
Faulty Analogy
Begging the Question EX.
Faulty Analogy Example
Sentimental Appeals Example

15. 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.
Either/Or. Example
Slippery Slope Example
Dogmatism Example
Red Herring Example

16. There's no way that anyone can argue that abortion is anything other than murder.
Hasty Generalization Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Dogmatism Example
Begging the Question EX.

17. Everyone else is displaying a flag - or a support our troops sticker on their car - therefore - you should too.
Dogmatism
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Ad hominem
Scare Tatics Example

18. This argument gives a lie an honest appearance - by insisting on What is only partially or formally true.
Slipper Slop Example
Equivocation
Red herring Example
Faulty Analogy Example

19. If you restrict my right to say whatever I want however I want this is the beginning of totalitarianism in America.
Slippery Slope Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Faulty Analogy Example
Dogmatism Example

20. 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
Begging the Question Example
Either/Or. Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex

21. Even though it's only the first day - I can tell this is going to be a boring course.
Hasty Generalization Example
Begging the Question EX.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Straw Man

22. 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.
Slipper Slop Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Scare Tatics Example
Red Herring Example

23. 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.)
Dogmatism Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Slippery Slope Example
Equivocation Example

24. I can't be guilty of embezzlement; I'm an honest person.
Faulty Causality
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Begging the Question Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex

25. This is a diversionary tactic that avoid key issues - often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them.
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Faulty Causality Example
Scare Tatics
Red Herring

26. 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.
Scare Tatics
Faulty Analogy Example
Non sequitur Example
Straw Man Example

27. 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.
Straw Man Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Dogmatism Example

28. 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
Either/Or. Example
Ad hominem Example
Faulty Analogy Example

29. 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.
Faulty Analogy Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Dogmatism Example
Scare Tatics Example

30. Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty - lazy hippies.
Ad hominem Example
Straw Man
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Either/Or. Example

31. We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.
Either/Or. Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Non sequitur Example
Faulty Causality

32. This argumentative fallacy in which the rhetor frames an issue in terms of exaggerated threats or dangers.
Dogmatism Example
Scare Tatics
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Causality Example

33. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
Equivocation Example
Begging the Question Example
Faulty Causality
Faulty Causality Example

34. 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.
Scare Tatics
Dogmatism
Red Herring Example
Hasty Generalization Example

35. She is feminist; she must hate men.
Faulty Causality
Slippery Slope Example
Slippery Slope Example
Non sequitur Example

36. 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
Scare Tatics Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Red Herring Example

37. 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
Equivocation Example
Ad hominem Example
Red Herring Example

38. The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe - but what will fishers do to support their families?
Straw Man Example
Red herring Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Ad hominem Example

39. 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 Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Appeals to False Authority
Straw Man

40. This sort of argument relies on the faulty assumption that because one event follows another - the second necessarily causes the first
Dogmatism
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Faulty Causality
Straw Man

41. If we can Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars - so we should not ban hummers.
Either/Or. Example
Sentimental Appeals Example
Slipper Slop Example
Faulty Analogy Example

42. 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.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Scare Tatics
Slipper Slop Example

43. This is a conclusion that oversimplifies the argument by reducing it only to two sides or choices.
Either/Or.
Non sequitur
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Slipper Slop Example

44. 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
Equivocation Example
Scare Tatics Example
Appeals to False Authority Example

45. Relying on manipulatively heart-warming or heart-wrenching appeals to emotion to win support for what has not been otherwise rationally justified.
Slippery Slope
Sentimental Appeals
Either/Or.
Faulty Causality

46. 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.
Faulty Analogy Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Either/Or. Example
Non sequitur Example

47. 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.
Begging the Question
Faulty Analogy
Begging the Question Example
Scare Tatics Example

48. 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
Either/Or. Example
Red herring Example
Sentimental Appeals Example

49. 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
Either/Or. Example
Either/Or.

50. 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
Red Herring Example
Slippery Slope Example
Straw Man Example