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Logical Fallacies

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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
Faulty Analogy Example
Non sequitur Example
Equivocation Example

2. 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)
Equivocation Example
Faulty Analogy
Faulty Analogy Example
Begging the Question EX.

3. This is a diversionary tactic that avoid key issues - often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Slippery Slope Example
Red Herring
Dogmatism Example

4. 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.
Slipper Slop Example
Ad hominem Example
Faulty Causality Example
Straw Man Example

5. 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.
Scare Tatics Example
Begging the Question Example
Straw Man
Equivocation Example

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

7. She is feminist; she must hate men.
Begging the Question Example
Hasty Generalization
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Non sequitur Example

8. This argumentative fallacy in which the rhetor frames an issue in terms of exaggerated threats or dangers.
Faulty Analogy
Scare Tatics
Faulty Causality Example
Sentimental Appeals Example

9. I don't support the President's foreign policy; look at the disastrous way he has taken care of our domestic economy.
Red herring Example
Non sequitur Example
Begging the Question Example
Sentimental Appeals

10. This argument gives a lie an honest appearance - by insisting on What is only partially or formally true.
Red Herring Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Equivocation
Begging the Question Example

11. 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.
Straw Man Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Analogy
Slippery Slope

12. There's no way that anyone can argue that abortion is anything other than murder.
Sentimental Appeals Example
Dogmatism Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Appeals to False Authority Example

13. 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
Slippery Slope
Bandwagon Appeal Example

14. This is a conclusion that oversimplifies the argument by reducing it only to two sides or choices.
Non sequitur
Scare Tatics Example
Either/Or.
Begging the Question

15. 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.
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Equivocation Example
Red herring Example
Red herring Example

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.
Begging the Question Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Causality Example
Equivocation

17. This fallacy of argument recommends a course of action on the grounds that everyone else is following the same path.
Equivocation
Faulty Analogy Example
Begging the Question EX.
Bandwagon appeal

18. 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.
Sentimental Appeals
Red Herring Example
Scare Tatics Example
Slippery Slope Example

19. Because of the possibility of a terrorist hijacking or mechanical failure - flying on a plane is too dangerous and should be avoided altogether.
Ad hominem Example
Straw Man
Straw Man Example
Scare Tatics Example

20. I drank bottled water and now I am sick - so the water must have made me sick.
Sentimental Appeals Example
Either/Or. Example
Red herring Example
Faulty Causality 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.
Faulty Causality Example
Non sequitur
Scare Tatics Example
Hasty Generalization

22. Here's what I think about what you have written: anyone who opposes the death penalty for murder is a criminal at heart.
Red herring Example
Ad hominem Example
Bandwagon appeal
Dogmatism Example

23. 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. Ex
Sentimental Appeals Example
Either/Or. Example
Red herring Example

24. You can't give me a C - I'm an A student.
Begging the Question EX.
Slippery Slope Example
Non sequitur
Faulty Analogy Example

25. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than her/his opinions or arguments.
Ad hominem
Slipper Slop Example
Red Herring
Straw Man Example

26. Either you support the president in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Causality
Dogmatism Example
Hasty Generalization

27. 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.
Either/Or.
Slippery Slope
Sentimental Appeals
Bandwagon Appeal Example

28. 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 Causality Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Appeals to False Authority
Red herring Example

29. If we can Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars - so we should not ban hummers.
Faulty Analogy Example
Faulty Causality
Slipper Slop Example
Dogmatism Example

30. 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
Scare Tatics Example
Red Herring
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Analogy Example

31. Even though it's only the first day - I can tell this is going to be a boring course.
Slippery Slope Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Equivocation Example
Faulty Causality Example

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

33. Everyone else is going out and getting drunk tonight - so you should too.
Either/Or. Example
Bandwagon appeal
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Scare Tatics Example

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

35. 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.
Begging the Question
Appeals to False Authority Example
Slipper Slop Example
Straw Man

36. The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe - but what will fishers do to support their families?
Hasty Generalization Example
Red herring Example
Begging the Question EX.
Dogmatism Example

37. 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.
Begging the Question Example
Faulty Analogy
Dogmatism
Equivocation Example

38. 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.
Hasty Generalization Example
Equivocation Example
Red Herring Example
Slippery Slope

39. 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.
Ad hominem Example
Faulty Analogy
Appeals to False Authority Example
Dogmatism Example

40. I can't be guilty of embezzlement; I'm an honest person.
Either/Or. Example
Non sequitur Example
Begging the Question Example
Equivocation Example

41. 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.
Slippery Slope Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Begging the Question
Scare Tatics

42. 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.
Faulty Analogy Example
Ad hominem Example
Begging the Question
Either/Or.

43. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.
Either/Or. Example
Straw Man
Faulty Analogy
Scare Tatics Example

44. 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
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Ad hominem Example
Hasty Generalization

45. 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.
Dogmatism Example
Non sequitur Example
Red herring Example
Appeals to False Authority

46. We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.
Red Herring Example
Non sequitur Example
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Analogy

47. 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
Non sequitur Example
Non sequitur
Slippery Slope Example

48. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
Begging the Question Example
Equivocation Example
Either/Or.
Faulty Causality Example

49. 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
Red Herring Example
Either/Or. Example
Hasty Generalization Example

50. 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.)
Scare Tatics Example
Dogmatism Example
Either/Or. Example
Equivocation Example