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Logical Fallacies

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1. Here's what I think about what you have written: anyone who opposes the death penalty for murder is a criminal at heart.
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Slippery Slope Example
Ad hominem Example
Equivocation Example

2. We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.
Equivocation Example
Scare Tatics Example
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Analogy Example

3. This argumentative fallacy in which the rhetor frames an issue in terms of exaggerated threats or dangers.
Either/Or. Example
Scare Tatics Example
Faulty Analogy
Scare Tatics

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

5. 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
Slippery Slope Example
Ad hominem Example
Red herring Example

6. 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
Ad hominem Example
Red herring Example

7. 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.
Either/Or. Example
Begging the Question
Non sequitur Example
Sentimental Appeals

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.
Ad hominem Example
Slipper Slop Example
Begging the Question Example
Slippery Slope Example

9. Because of the possibility of a terrorist hijacking or mechanical failure - flying on a plane is too dangerous and should be avoided altogether.
Dogmatism Example
Slippery Slope
Either/Or.
Scare Tatics Example

10. 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.)
Dogmatism Example
Non sequitur
Equivocation Example
Non sequitur Example

11. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than her/his opinions or arguments.
Hasty Generalization Example
Equivocation
Slippery Slope Example
Ad hominem

12. Everyone else is going out and getting drunk tonight - so you should too.
Either/Or.
Equivocation Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Slippery Slope Example

13. If we can Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars - so we should not ban hummers.
Slippery Slope Example
Sentimental Appeals Example
Non sequitur
Slipper Slop Example

14. 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.
Either/Or. Example
Dogmatism
Non sequitur
Straw Man

15. 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
Scare Tatics
Faulty Analogy Example
Faulty Causality Example

16. 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.
Hasty Generalization Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Faulty Causality Example
Slipper Slop Example

17. Either you support the president in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American
Appeals to False Authority
Ad hominem Example
Either/Or. Example
Red Herring Example

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

19. 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
Dogmatism
Begging the Question Example

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

21. 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.
Red herring Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Equivocation Example
Slippery Slope

22. I don't support the President's foreign policy; look at the disastrous way he has taken care of our domestic economy.
Non sequitur Example
Scare Tatics Example
Red herring Example
Dogmatism Example

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

24. 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
Straw Man Example
Sentimental Appeals Example
Red herring Example
Hasty Generalization Example

25. 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
Equivocation Example
Begging the Question EX.
Begging the Question Example

26. 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
Begging the Question Example
Slippery Slope
Equivocation Example

27. If you restrict my right to say whatever I want however I want this is the beginning of totalitarianism in America.
Slippery Slope Example
Non sequitur Example
Red herring Example
Sentimental Appeals

28. I can't be guilty of embezzlement; I'm an honest person.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Begging the Question Example
Straw Man Example
Red Herring

29. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.
Scare Tatics
Faulty Causality Example
Either/Or. Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex

30. This sort of argument relies on the faulty assumption that because one event follows another - the second necessarily causes the first
Dogmatism Example
Faulty Causality
Hasty Generalization Example
Red herring Example

31. 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
Faulty Analogy
Appeals to False Authority
Red Herring

32. 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
Dogmatism Example
Begging the Question
Either/Or.

33. This is a conclusion based on insufficient evidence. In other words - you are rushing to a conclusion before you have all the relevant facts.
Dogmatism
Red Herring Example
Hasty Generalization
Slippery Slope

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

35. 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
Hasty Generalization Example
Ad hominem Example
Scare Tatics Example

36. There's no way that anyone can argue that abortion is anything other than murder.
Faulty Causality Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Dogmatism Example
Begging the Question Example

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

38. 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)
Ad hominem Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Equivocation Example

39. She is feminist; she must hate men.
Red Herring Example
Faulty Analogy
Non sequitur Example
Equivocation 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.
Hasty Generalization Example
Straw Man
Ad hominem Example
Dogmatism Example

41. You can't give me a C - I'm an A student.
Begging the Question EX.
Begging the Question Example
Straw Man
Faulty Analogy

42. 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
Red Herring Example
Straw Man Example
Equivocation Example

43. 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.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Ad hominem
Hasty Generalization Example

44. 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
Dogmatism Example
Red herring Example
Slipper Slop Example

45. The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe - but what will fishers do to support their families?
Ad hominem
Non sequitur
Red herring Example
Sentimental Appeals Example

46. 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.
Scare Tatics
Sentimental Appeals
Faulty Analogy Example
Hasty Generalization Example

47. 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.
Hasty Generalization
Slipper Slop Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Bandwagon Appeal Example

48. 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
Begging the Question Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Begging the Question

49. This argument gives a lie an honest appearance - by insisting on What is only partially or formally true.
Non sequitur Example
Slipper Slop Example
Either/Or. Example
Equivocation

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