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Logical Fallacies

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1. This argument gives a lie an honest appearance - by insisting on What is only partially or formally true.
Equivocation
Equivocation Example
Slippery Slope Example
Faulty Causality

2. This is a diversionary tactic that avoid key issues - often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them.
Red Herring
Hasty Generalization Example
Non sequitur
Straw Man

3. 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
Straw Man
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Analogy Example

4. I drank bottled water and now I am sick - so the water must have made me sick.
Faulty Causality Example
Sentimental Appeals Example
Slippery Slope Example
Red Herring

5. You can't give me a C - I'm an A student.
Non sequitur Example
Faulty Causality
Red herring Example
Begging the Question EX.

6. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than her/his opinions or arguments.
Ad hominem Example
Faulty Analogy
Ad hominem
Hasty Generalization Example

7. We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.
Either/Or. Example
Begging the Question Example
Scare Tatics Example
Straw Man Example

8. Either you support the president in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American
Either/Or. Example
Red Herring Example
Faulty Causality
Scare Tatics Example

9. Even though it's only the first day - I can tell this is going to be a boring course.
Straw Man Example
Bandwagon appeal
Non sequitur Example
Hasty Generalization Example

10. 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.
Faulty Analogy Example
Straw Man
Non sequitur Example
Appeals to False Authority Example

11. 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
Slippery Slope Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex

12. 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.
Hasty Generalization Example
Dogmatism
Either/Or.
Appeals to False Authority

13. 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
Equivocation
Begging the Question

14. 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
Dogmatism
Non sequitur
Bandwagon appeal

15. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.
Faulty Causality Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Bandwagon appeal
Either/Or. Example

16. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
Non sequitur Example
Equivocation Example
Either/Or.
Begging the Question Example

17. 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.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Non sequitur Example
Scare Tatics Example
Red Herring Example

18. 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.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Ad hominem
Dogmatism Example
Scare Tatics Example

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

20. 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 Analogy
Faulty Analogy Example
Non sequitur Example
Non sequitur Example

21. Here's what I think about what you have written: anyone who opposes the death penalty for murder is a criminal at heart.
Hasty Generalization Example
Begging the Question EX.
Bandwagon appeal
Ad hominem Example

22. 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.
Red herring Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Dogmatism Example
Either/Or. Example

23. I can't be guilty of embezzlement; I'm an honest person.
Ad hominem
Slippery Slope
Begging the Question Example
Red Herring Example

24. If you restrict my right to say whatever I want however I want this is the beginning of totalitarianism in America.
Hasty Generalization Example
Appeals to False Authority
Slippery Slope Example
Straw Man Example

25. Relying on manipulatively heart-warming or heart-wrenching appeals to emotion to win support for what has not been otherwise rationally justified.
Dogmatism
Sentimental Appeals
Slippery Slope Example
Straw Man Example

26. 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)
Faulty Causality
Ad hominem Example
Straw Man Example
Equivocation Example

27. 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
Begging the Question Example
Faulty Causality
Appeals to False Authority Example

28. I don't support the President's foreign policy; look at the disastrous way he has taken care of our domestic economy.
Equivocation Example
Red herring Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Hasty Generalization Example

29. This fallacy of argument recommends a course of action on the grounds that everyone else is following the same path.
Bandwagon appeal
Ad hominem Example
Straw Man Example
Dogmatism Example

30. 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.
Either/Or. Example
Either/Or. Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Red Herring Example

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

32. 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
Faulty Analogy Example
Non sequitur
Hasty Generalization

33. 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
Ad hominem
Scare Tatics
Faulty Causality Example

34. Everyone else is displaying a flag - or a support our troops sticker on their car - therefore - you should too.
Straw Man Example
Red herring Example
Begging the Question Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example

35. This sort of argument relies on the faulty assumption that because one event follows another - the second necessarily causes the first
Non sequitur Example
Straw Man
Ad hominem Example
Faulty Causality

36. 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.
Straw Man Example
Scare Tatics
Appeals to False Authority
Red Herring Example

37. There's no way that anyone can argue that abortion is anything other than murder.
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Analogy
Dogmatism Example
Slippery Slope Example

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

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.
Hasty Generalization Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Either/Or. Example

40. The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe - but what will fishers do to support their families?
Begging the Question Example
Either/Or. Example
Red herring Example
Begging the Question Example

41. She is feminist; she must hate men.
Non sequitur Example
Either/Or.
Equivocation Example
Straw Man

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

43. 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.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Causality Example
Straw Man Example

44. 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.
Faulty Analogy Example
Bandwagon appeal
Straw Man
Slippery Slope

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
Appeals to False Authority Example
Scare Tatics Example
Hasty Generalization Example

46. I knew a gay guy who was not very masculine; this just goes to show that gay guys are more effeminate than straight men.
Equivocation Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Straw Man Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex

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

48. 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.)
Either/Or. Example
Equivocation Example
Appeals to False Authority
Begging the Question EX.

49. 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
Red herring Example
Dogmatism
Straw Man Example

50. 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
Either/Or. Example
Non sequitur