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Logical Fallacies

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1. 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 Example
Red herring Example
Straw Man
Faulty Causality Example

2. 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
Scare Tatics
Dogmatism
Ad hominem Example

3. Relying on manipulatively heart-warming or heart-wrenching appeals to emotion to win support for what has not been otherwise rationally justified.
Sentimental Appeals
Red Herring
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Faulty Analogy Example

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

5. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.
Hasty Generalization Example
Dogmatism
Either/Or. Example
Hasty Generalization

6. There's no way that anyone can argue that abortion is anything other than murder.
Faulty Analogy Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Dogmatism Example

7. I drank bottled water and now I am sick - so the water must have made me sick.
Ad hominem
Faulty Causality Example
Red herring Example
Begging the Question

8. She is feminist; she must hate men.
Dogmatism Example
Non sequitur Example
Scare Tatics Example
Begging the Question

9. Either you support the president in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American
Faulty Analogy Example
Scare Tatics
Straw Man Example
Either/Or. Example

10. 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.
Either/Or. Example
Straw Man
Faulty Analogy
Appeals to False Authority Example

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.
Hasty Generalization Example
Either/Or. Example
Slippery Slope Example
Either/Or. Example

12. 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.)
Faulty Analogy Example
Red Herring Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Equivocation Example

13. This fallacy of argument recommends a course of action on the grounds that everyone else is following the same path.
Either/Or. Example
Slippery Slope Example
Bandwagon appeal
Ad hominem Example

14. 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
Red Herring
Slippery Slope Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example

15. 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.
Ad hominem Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Non sequitur Example
Non sequitur

16. 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.
Straw Man
Faulty Analogy
Faulty Causality Example
Ad hominem Example

17. We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.
Equivocation Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Either/Or. Example

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

19. 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
Equivocation
Faulty Analogy Example
Hasty Generalization 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.
Begging the Question Example
Either/Or. Example
Slippery Slope
Hasty Generalization Example

21. 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
Non sequitur
Ad hominem
Equivocation Example

22. This is a conclusion that oversimplifies the argument by reducing it only to two sides or choices.
Either/Or.
Equivocation Example
Begging the Question
Bandwagon Appeal Example

23. This sort of argument relies on the faulty assumption that because one event follows another - the second necessarily causes the first
Faulty Causality
Appeals to False Authority Example
Slipper Slop Example
Ad hominem Example

24. 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.
Straw Man Example
Red Herring
Dogmatism Example
Either/Or. Example

25. 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
Slippery Slope
Either/Or.

26. Everyone else is going out and getting drunk tonight - so you should too.
Equivocation Example
Either/Or. Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Ad hominem Example

27. If you restrict my right to say whatever I want however I want this is the beginning of totalitarianism in America.
Bandwagon appeal
Faulty Analogy
Begging the Question EX.
Slippery Slope Example

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

29. 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.
Scare Tatics Example
Faulty Analogy
Appeals to False Authority Example
Appeals to False Authority

30. 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
Sentimental Appeals Example
Equivocation Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Scare Tatics

31. You can't give me a C - I'm an A student.
Bandwagon appeal
Hasty Generalization Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Begging the Question EX.

32. 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.
Slipper Slop Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Dogmatism Example
Slippery Slope Example

33. 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.
Equivocation Example
Red Herring Example
Hasty Generalization
Hasty Generalization Example

34. 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.
Slippery Slope Example
Straw Man Example
Non sequitur Example
Red Herring Example

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

36. 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
Slippery Slope
Either/Or. Example
Dogmatism
Faulty Analogy Example

37. 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.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Either/Or. 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
Slipper Slop Example
Scare Tatics Example
Slippery Slope

39. 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.
Non sequitur
Equivocation Example
Ad hominem Example
Non sequitur Example

40. If we can Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars - so we should not ban hummers.
Dogmatism Example
Scare Tatics Example
Slipper Slop Example
Hasty Generalization Example

41. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
Hasty Generalization Example
Sentimental Appeals
Slippery Slope Example
Begging the Question Example

42. I can't be guilty of embezzlement; I'm an honest person.
Hasty Generalization Example
Begging the Question Example
Non sequitur
Hasty Generalization Example

43. This argument gives a lie an honest appearance - by insisting on What is only partially or formally true.
Slipper Slop Example
Faulty Causality
Sentimental Appeals
Equivocation

44. Here's what I think about what you have written: anyone who opposes the death penalty for murder is a criminal at heart.
Non sequitur Example
Sentimental Appeals Example
Straw Man Example
Ad hominem Example

45. 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.
Hasty Generalization Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Scare Tatics Example
Begging the Question

46. This argumentative fallacy in which the rhetor frames an issue in terms of exaggerated threats or dangers.
Equivocation Example
Either/Or. Example
Begging the Question
Scare Tatics

47. 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.
Scare Tatics Example
Non sequitur
Appeals to False Authority Example
Faulty Analogy Example

48. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than her/his opinions or arguments.
Sentimental Appeals Example
Ad hominem
Scare Tatics Example
Red Herring

49. 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
Straw Man
Appeals to False Authority Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex

50. 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)
Scare Tatics Example
Faulty Causality
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Equivocation Example