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Logical Fallacies

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Everyone else is displaying a flag - or a support our troops sticker on their car - therefore - you should too.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Straw Man
Begging the Question Example
Non sequitur

2. 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.)
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Faulty Causality
Equivocation Example
Equivocation

3. 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
Straw Man Example
Begging the Question EX.
Dogmatism Example

4. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than her/his opinions or arguments.
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Faulty Causality Example
Ad hominem
Red Herring Example

5. We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.
Either/Or. Example
Begging the Question Example
Equivocation
Hasty Generalization Example

6. Everyone else is going out and getting drunk tonight - so you should too.
Slippery Slope Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Slippery Slope Example
Red Herring Example

7. 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.
Non sequitur
Red Herring
Faulty Analogy Example
Non sequitur Example

8. Here's what I think about what you have written: anyone who opposes the death penalty for murder is a criminal at heart.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Straw Man
Faulty Analogy Example
Ad hominem Example

9. 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
Faulty Causality
Appeals to False Authority Example
Equivocation Example

10. Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty - lazy hippies.
Ad hominem Example
Begging the Question EX.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Begging the Question Example

11. This sort of argument relies on the faulty assumption that because one event follows another - the second necessarily causes the first
Ad hominem
Hasty Generalization
Faulty Causality
Faulty Analogy

12. I knew a gay guy who was not very masculine; this just goes to show that gay guys are more effeminate than straight men.
Hasty Generalization
Ad hominem
Hasty Generalization Example
Either/Or.

13. 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.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Faulty Causality Example
Slippery Slope
Either/Or. Example

14. This argument gives a lie an honest appearance - by insisting on What is only partially or formally true.
Hasty Generalization
Equivocation
Red Herring
Bandwagon Appeal Example

15. Even though it's only the first day - I can tell this is going to be a boring course.
Dogmatism Example
Begging the Question EX.
Hasty Generalization Example
Ad hominem Example

16. I can't be guilty of embezzlement; I'm an honest person.
Begging the Question Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Equivocation
Red herring Example

17. 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
Ad hominem Example
Straw Man Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Ad hominem

18. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.
Sentimental Appeals
Slippery Slope Example
Either/Or. Example
Hasty Generalization Example

19. 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.
Hasty Generalization Example
Non sequitur Example
Faulty Causality Example
Faulty Analogy Example

20. 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.
Ad hominem Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Scare Tatics
Faulty Analogy

21. Relying on manipulatively heart-warming or heart-wrenching appeals to emotion to win support for what has not been otherwise rationally justified.
Non sequitur
Sentimental Appeals
Begging the Question Example
Scare Tatics

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.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Faulty Causality
Slippery Slope Example

23. There's no way that anyone can argue that abortion is anything other than murder.
Slipper Slop Example
Either/Or.
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Dogmatism Example

24. She is feminist; she must hate men.
Sentimental Appeals Example
Faulty Causality Example
Non sequitur Example
Hasty Generalization Example

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.
Either/Or. Example
Bandwagon appeal
Non sequitur
Begging the Question Example

26. 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.
Sentimental Appeals
Begging the Question Example
Ad hominem Example
Faulty Analogy

27. This argumentative fallacy in which the rhetor frames an issue in terms of exaggerated threats or dangers.
Scare Tatics
Ad hominem
Non sequitur
Ad hominem Example

28. 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
Non sequitur Example
Slipper Slop Example
Begging the Question EX.

29. You can't give me a C - I'm an A student.
Begging the Question
Begging the Question EX.
Non sequitur Example
Either/Or.

30. I drank bottled water and now I am sick - so the water must have made me sick.
Either/Or.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Causality Example

31. 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
Slippery Slope
Slipper Slop Example
Red Herring

32. This is a conclusion based on insufficient evidence. In other words - you are rushing to a conclusion before you have all the relevant facts.
Equivocation Example
Scare Tatics
Hasty Generalization
Straw Man

33. 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.
Straw Man
Ad hominem Example
Scare Tatics Example
Sentimental Appeals Example

34. 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
Non sequitur Example
Slippery Slope
Appeals to False Authority

35. 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
Bandwagon appeal
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Non sequitur Example

36. This is a diversionary tactic that avoid key issues - often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them.
Ad hominem Example
Non sequitur Example
Begging the Question
Red Herring

37. Because of the possibility of a terrorist hijacking or mechanical failure - flying on a plane is too dangerous and should be avoided altogether.
Straw Man
Scare Tatics Example
Begging the Question Example
Faulty Causality Example

38. 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.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Scare Tatics Example
Faulty Causality Example
Slippery Slope

39. The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe - but what will fishers do to support their families?
Faulty Analogy
Hasty Generalization Example
Slippery Slope
Red herring Example

40. 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.
Straw Man Example
Bandwagon appeal
Hasty Generalization Example
Appeals to False Authority Example

41. This fallacy of argument recommends a course of action on the grounds that everyone else is following the same path.
Equivocation Example
Dogmatism Example
Sentimental Appeals
Bandwagon appeal

42. 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.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Dogmatism Example
Non sequitur Example
Hasty Generalization Example

43. Either you support the president in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American
Either/Or. Example
Dogmatism
Appeals to False Authority Example
Sentimental Appeals

44. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
Begging the Question Example
Slippery Slope
Equivocation Example
Either/Or. Example

45. 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
Scare Tatics
Hasty Generalization Example
Bandwagon appeal
Sentimental Appeals Example

46. 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.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Straw Man Example
Begging the Question EX.
Faulty Causality Example

47. I don't support the President's foreign policy; look at the disastrous way he has taken care of our domestic economy.
Sentimental Appeals Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Red Herring
Red herring Example

48. 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.
Slippery Slope
Hasty Generalization
Straw Man
Either/Or. Example

49. 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.
Bandwagon appeal
Slippery Slope
Red herring Example
Dogmatism

50. This is a conclusion that oversimplifies the argument by reducing it only to two sides or choices.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Either/Or.
Begging the Question
Sentimental Appeals