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Logical Fallacies
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Subject
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logic-and-reasoning
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Dogmatism
Bandwagon Appeal Example
2. 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.
Red Herring Example
Non sequitur Example
Faulty Causality Example
Non sequitur
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.
Sentimental Appeals Example
Dogmatism Example
Slippery Slope Example
Begging the Question
4. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Faulty Causality Example
Begging the Question Example
Dogmatism Example
5. 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
Faulty Analogy
Slippery Slope Example
Hasty Generalization
6. There's no way that anyone can argue that abortion is anything other than murder.
Non sequitur Example
Red Herring
Either/Or.
Dogmatism 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.
Non sequitur Example
Non sequitur
Faulty Analogy Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
8. Because of the possibility of a terrorist hijacking or mechanical failure - flying on a plane is too dangerous and should be avoided altogether.
Either/Or. Example
Scare Tatics Example
Dogmatism Example
Faulty Analogy Example
9. This sort of argument relies on the faulty assumption that because one event follows another - the second necessarily causes the first
Begging the Question EX.
Straw Man Example
Faulty Causality
Dogmatism Example
10. 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.
Equivocation Example
Begging the Question
Scare Tatics
Faulty Analogy 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.
Faulty Causality Example
Red Herring
Faulty Analogy
Red herring Example
12. 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
Hasty Generalization Example
Begging the Question
Red Herring
13. I can't be guilty of embezzlement; I'm an honest person.
Begging the Question Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Slippery Slope
Red herring Example
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.
Red herring Example
Equivocation Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Scare Tatics Example
15. Either you support the president in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American
Begging the Question Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Equivocation
Either/Or. Example
16. This is a conclusion based on insufficient evidence. In other words - you are rushing to a conclusion before you have all the relevant facts.
Slipper Slop Example
Begging the Question Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Hasty Generalization
17. 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.
Slippery Slope Example
Bandwagon appeal
Appeals to False Authority Example
Red Herring
18. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.
Sentimental Appeals
Begging the Question
Scare Tatics
Either/Or. Example
19. 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
Appeals to False Authority Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Scare Tatics
20. Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty - lazy hippies.
Hasty Generalization Example
Sentimental Appeals Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Ad hominem Example
21. We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.
Either/Or. Example
Equivocation Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Faulty Causality Example
22. 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
Red Herring
Hasty Generalization Example
Hasty Generalization Example
23. 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
Begging the Question Example
Non sequitur
24. 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.
Ad hominem
Red Herring Example
Scare Tatics Example
Faulty Analogy Example
25. This argumentative fallacy in which the rhetor frames an issue in terms of exaggerated threats or dangers.
Scare Tatics
Appeals to False Authority Example
Equivocation
Appeals to False Authority Example
26. 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.
Non sequitur
Ad hominem Example
Faulty Causality Example
Either/Or. Example
27. 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.
Red herring Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Straw Man Example
Dogmatism Example
28. 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
Faulty Causality Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Faulty Analogy
29. The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe - but what will fishers do to support their families?
Scare Tatics Example
Red herring Example
Ad hominem Example
Either/Or. Example
30. This is a diversionary tactic that avoid key issues - often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them.
Non sequitur Example
Bandwagon appeal
Red Herring
Begging the Question
31. She is feminist; she must hate men.
Slippery Slope Example
Ad hominem Example
Non sequitur Example
Faulty Analogy
32. Here's what I think about what you have written: anyone who opposes the death penalty for murder is a criminal at heart.
Bandwagon appeal
Ad hominem Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Either/Or. Example
33. This is a conclusion that oversimplifies the argument by reducing it only to two sides or choices.
Scare Tatics
Either/Or.
Begging the Question Example
Faulty Causality Example
34. 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
Ad hominem Example
Equivocation Example
Equivocation Example
35. I drank bottled water and now I am sick - so the water must have made me sick.
Either/Or. Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Either/Or.
Faulty Causality Example
36. This argument gives a lie an honest appearance - by insisting on What is only partially or formally true.
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Hasty Generalization
Faulty Analogy Example
Equivocation
37. Relying on manipulatively heart-warming or heart-wrenching appeals to emotion to win support for what has not been otherwise rationally justified.
Scare Tatics
Sentimental Appeals
Ad hominem Example
Non sequitur Example
38. If we can Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars - so we should not ban hummers.
Non sequitur Example
Equivocation
Dogmatism Example
Slipper Slop Example
39. Even though it's only the first day - I can tell this is going to be a boring course.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Red Herring
Equivocation Example
Hasty Generalization Example
40. 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
Either/Or. Example
Slippery Slope Example
Hasty Generalization Example
41. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than her/his opinions or arguments.
Faulty Causality Example
Ad hominem
Non sequitur Example
Dogmatism
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.
Sentimental Appeals Example
Begging the Question EX.
Appeals to False Authority
Red Herring Example
43. 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
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Scare Tatics Example
Non sequitur Example
44. Everyone else is going out and getting drunk tonight - so you should too.
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Dogmatism
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Straw Man Example
45. 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.
Non sequitur Example
Slipper Slop Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Bandwagon appeal
46. 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
Hasty Generalization
Ad hominem Example
Faulty Causality Example
47. This fallacy of argument recommends a course of action on the grounds that everyone else is following the same path.
Ad hominem
Red Herring Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Bandwagon appeal
48. Everyone else is displaying a flag - or a support our troops sticker on their car - therefore - you should too.
Dogmatism Example
Faulty Analogy
Red Herring Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
49. 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.
Slippery Slope Example
Non sequitur Example
Dogmatism
Faulty Analogy Example
50. If you restrict my right to say whatever I want however I want this is the beginning of totalitarianism in America.
Faulty Analogy Example
Slippery Slope Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Bandwagon appeal