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Logical Fallacies

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1. 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
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Sentimental Appeals
Equivocation

2. You can't give me a C - I'm an A student.
Slipper Slop Example
Begging the Question EX.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Ad hominem

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

4. Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty - lazy hippies.
Appeals to False Authority
Sentimental Appeals
Equivocation
Ad hominem Example

5. 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 Causality
Begging the Question Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Dogmatism

6. 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. Ex
Sentimental Appeals
Scare Tatics Example
Red Herring Example

7. She is feminist; she must hate men.
Bandwagon appeal
Non sequitur Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Either/Or. Example

8. 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.
Straw Man
Slippery Slope Example
Ad hominem Example
Red Herring Example

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.
Slippery Slope
Scare Tatics
Dogmatism
Straw Man Example

10. 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.
Red Herring Example
Begging the Question EX.
Dogmatism
Hasty Generalization Example

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

12. This is a conclusion that oversimplifies the argument by reducing it only to two sides or choices.
Either/Or. Example
Non sequitur Example
Either/Or.
Slippery Slope

13. This is a diversionary tactic that avoid key issues - often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them.
Red Herring Example
Equivocation Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Red Herring

14. 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.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex

15. 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
Hasty Generalization
Either/Or. Example
Dogmatism Example

16. Even though it's only the first day - I can tell this is going to be a boring course.
Bandwagon appeal
Ad hominem
Scare Tatics
Hasty Generalization Example

17. I knew a gay guy who was not very masculine; this just goes to show that gay guys are more effeminate than straight men.
Faulty Analogy Example
Scare Tatics Example
Faulty Causality Example
Hasty Generalization Example

18. If you restrict my right to say whatever I want however I want this is the beginning of totalitarianism in America.
Slippery Slope Example
Appeals to False Authority
Faulty Causality Example
Red herring Example

19. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.
Either/Or. Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Faulty Causality Example
Ad hominem Example

20. There's no way that anyone can argue that abortion is anything other than murder.
Dogmatism Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Dogmatism
Non sequitur

21. I can't be guilty of embezzlement; I'm an honest person.
Begging the Question Example
Slippery Slope Example
Ad hominem Example
Equivocation Example

22. This argument gives a lie an honest appearance - by insisting on What is only partially or formally true.
Slipper Slop Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Begging the Question EX.
Equivocation

23. 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
Hasty Generalization
Scare Tatics
Red herring Example

24. 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.
Either/Or. Example
Ad hominem Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Appeals to False Authority

25. 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
Red herring Example
Straw Man
Faulty Causality

26. 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.
Faulty Analogy
Scare Tatics
Slippery Slope Example
Non sequitur

27. If we can Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars - so we should not ban hummers.
Bandwagon appeal
Slipper Slop Example
Scare Tatics Example
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.
Equivocation
Slipper Slop Example
Dogmatism Example
Red Herring Example

29. 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)
Either/Or. Example
Scare Tatics Example
Slippery Slope
Equivocation Example

30. This is a conclusion based on insufficient evidence. In other words - you are rushing to a conclusion before you have all the relevant facts.
Red herring Example
Hasty Generalization
Non sequitur
Faulty Analogy

31. 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.
Begging the Question
Hasty Generalization Example
Straw Man Example
Faulty Analogy Example

32. 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
Either/Or. Example
Equivocation Example
Faulty Analogy

33. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
Scare Tatics Example
Begging the Question Example
Non sequitur
Dogmatism Example

34. Because of the possibility of a terrorist hijacking or mechanical failure - flying on a plane is too dangerous and should be avoided altogether.
Red Herring Example
Ad hominem Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Scare Tatics Example

35. 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.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Slippery Slope Example
Either/Or. Example
Equivocation Example

36. 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.
Faulty Causality Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Scare Tatics Example
Sentimental Appeals Example

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

38. 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.
Non sequitur Example
Sentimental Appeals Example
Begging the Question Example
Begging the Question

39. 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.
Slipper Slop Example
Faulty Analogy
Begging the Question Example
Appeals to False Authority 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.
Faulty Analogy Example
Appeals to False Authority
Straw Man
Dogmatism Example

41. Everyone else is going out and getting drunk tonight - so you should too.
Hasty Generalization Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Sentimental Appeals
Faulty Analogy

42. Here's what I think about what you have written: anyone who opposes the death penalty for murder is a criminal at heart.
Faulty Causality Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Either/Or.
Ad hominem Example

43. The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe - but what will fishers do to support their families?
Appeals to False Authority Example
Scare Tatics Example
Red herring Example
Begging the Question EX.

44. 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 Analogy Example
Equivocation Example
Non sequitur Example
Ad hominem Example

45. 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.
Red Herring Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Faulty Causality Example
Non sequitur

46. This argumentative fallacy in which the rhetor frames an issue in terms of exaggerated threats or dangers.
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Either/Or. Example
Scare Tatics
Ad hominem Example

47. I drank bottled water and now I am sick - so the water must have made me sick.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Faulty Causality Example
Slippery Slope Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example

48. 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.
Sentimental Appeals
Appeals to False Authority Example
Scare Tatics
Hasty Generalization Example

49. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than her/his opinions or arguments.
Red herring Example
Ad hominem
Appeals to False Authority Example
Equivocation Example

50. Everyone else is displaying a flag - or a support our troops sticker on their car - therefore - you should too.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Straw Man Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Non sequitur Example

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