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Logical Fallacies

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1. 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.
Faulty Analogy Example
Straw Man Example
Begging the Question
Appeals to False Authority

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

3. 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
Begging the Question
Slippery Slope Example
Hasty Generalization Example

4. Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty - lazy hippies.
Scare Tatics Example
Sentimental Appeals Example
Ad hominem Example
Dogmatism

5. 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.
Either/Or.
Equivocation Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex

6. If you restrict my right to say whatever I want however I want this is the beginning of totalitarianism in America.
Faulty Causality Example
Slippery Slope Example
Equivocation Example
Dogmatism

7. 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
Non sequitur Example
Ad hominem
Red Herring

8. 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
Appeals to False Authority Example
Scare Tatics Example

9. 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
Red herring Example
Either/Or. Example
Straw Man

10. 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
Either/Or. Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Non sequitur

11. 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.
Ad hominem Example
Red herring Example
Either/Or. Example
Slippery Slope Example

12. This fallacy of argument recommends a course of action on the grounds that everyone else is following the same path.
Scare Tatics
Bandwagon appeal
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Analogy Example

13. I don't support the President's foreign policy; look at the disastrous way he has taken care of our domestic economy.
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Dogmatism Example
Red herring Example

14. I can't be guilty of embezzlement; I'm an honest person.
Begging the Question Example
Dogmatism Example
Red herring Example
Non sequitur Example

15. 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.
Appeals to False Authority
Red Herring Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Sentimental Appeals Example

16. This argumentative fallacy in which the rhetor frames an issue in terms of exaggerated threats or dangers.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Red Herring Example
Scare Tatics
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.)
Equivocation Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Either/Or. Example

18. 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 Example
Dogmatism
Faulty Analogy Example
Either/Or. Example

19. Everyone else is going out and getting drunk tonight - so you should too.
Sentimental Appeals Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Slipper Slop Example

20. 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 Example
Hasty Generalization
Sentimental Appeals
Sentimental Appeals Example

21. 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
Begging the Question Example
Either/Or. Example
Non sequitur Example

22. She is feminist; she must hate men.
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Causality Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Non sequitur Example

23. We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.
Equivocation Example
Slippery Slope Example
Either/Or. Example
Ad hominem Example

24. 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
Appeals to False Authority Example
Non sequitur Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example

25. 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
Either/Or. Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Appeals to False Authority Example

26. This is a conclusion that oversimplifies the argument by reducing it only to two sides or choices.
Red herring Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Straw Man Example
Either/Or.

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.
Slipper Slop Example
Slippery Slope Example
Either/Or. Example
Sentimental Appeals Example

28. 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.
Scare Tatics
Ad hominem Example
Faulty Analogy
Begging the Question

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

30. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
Begging the Question Example
Scare Tatics Example
Either/Or.
Hasty Generalization Example

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

32. Either you support the president in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Causality Example
Non sequitur Example
Equivocation Example

33. This is a diversionary tactic that avoid key issues - often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them.
Red Herring
Either/Or. Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Straw Man Example

34. I drank bottled water and now I am sick - so the water must have made me sick.
Faulty Causality Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Scare Tatics Example
Either/Or. Example

35. 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)
Hasty Generalization
Slipper Slop Example
Equivocation Example
Begging the Question

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

37. 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
Ad hominem Example
Sentimental Appeals Example
Begging the Question Example
Either/Or. Example

38. 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.
Hasty Generalization Example
Non sequitur Example
Dogmatism Example
Slipper Slop Example

39. 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
Bandwagon appeal
Slippery Slope Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example

40. 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.
Non sequitur Example
Equivocation Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Straw Man

41. 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
Equivocation
Faulty Causality Example
Straw Man Example

42. Everyone else is displaying a flag - or a support our troops sticker on their car - therefore - you should too.
Either/Or. Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Straw Man
Ad hominem Example

43. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.
Either/Or. Example
Begging the Question EX.
Hasty Generalization Example
Non sequitur Example

44. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than her/his opinions or arguments.
Ad hominem
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Non sequitur Example
Either/Or. Example

45. You can't give me a C - I'm an A student.
Faulty Causality Example
Dogmatism
Scare Tatics
Begging the Question EX.

46. 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.
Scare Tatics
Ad hominem Example
Red herring Example
Red herring Example

47. 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.
Faulty Analogy Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Bandwagon appeal
Slippery Slope

48. There's no way that anyone can argue that abortion is anything other than murder.
Hasty Generalization Example
Dogmatism Example
Equivocation Example
Either/Or. Example

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

50. 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.
Non sequitur Example
Scare Tatics Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Ad hominem Example