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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.
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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. 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.
Sentimental Appeals
Non sequitur
Begging the Question
Faulty Analogy
2. This is a conclusion that oversimplifies the argument by reducing it only to two sides or choices.
Either/Or. Example
Either/Or.
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Causality Example
3. 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
Red Herring Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Bandwagon appeal
4. 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
Either/Or. Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Red herring Example
5. 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.
Begging the Question
Slippery Slope Example
Ad hominem Example
Hasty Generalization
6. Either you support the president in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American
Red Herring Example
Dogmatism Example
Either/Or.
Either/Or. Example
7. This is a conclusion based on insufficient evidence. In other words - you are rushing to a conclusion before you have all the relevant facts.
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Causality
Appeals to False Authority Example
Hasty Generalization
8. 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
Non sequitur Example
Scare Tatics 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
Dogmatism Example
Either/Or. Example
Red Herring
10. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.
Begging the Question
Either/Or. Example
Slippery Slope
Straw Man Example
11. Relying on manipulatively heart-warming or heart-wrenching appeals to emotion to win support for what has not been otherwise rationally justified.
Faulty Causality Example
Sentimental Appeals
Appeals to False Authority
Appeals to False Authority Example
12. If we can Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars - so we should not ban hummers.
Equivocation
Non sequitur Example
Slippery Slope Example
Slipper Slop Example
13. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than her/his opinions or arguments.
Straw Man Example
Either/Or. Example
Ad hominem
Red Herring
14. 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.
Either/Or. Example
Red Herring
Straw Man
Equivocation
15. 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
Slippery Slope Example
Straw Man
Faulty Causality Example
16. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
Begging the Question Example
Scare Tatics Example
Either/Or. Example
Dogmatism
17. This argument gives a lie an honest appearance - by insisting on What is only partially or formally true.
Ad hominem
Equivocation
Appeals to False Authority Example
Scare Tatics Example
18. 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. Example
Ad hominem Example
Faulty Causality
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
19. The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe - but what will fishers do to support their families?
Red herring Example
Straw Man Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Hasty Generalization Example
20. You can't give me a C - I'm an A student.
Dogmatism
Begging the Question EX.
Red Herring
Scare Tatics
21. Everyone else is displaying a flag - or a support our troops sticker on their car - therefore - you should too.
Hasty Generalization Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Slippery Slope Example
Non sequitur
22. 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.
Faulty Analogy Example
Sentimental Appeals Example
Slippery Slope Example
Dogmatism 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.
Either/Or. Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Dogmatism Example
Straw Man Example
24. Because of the possibility of a terrorist hijacking or mechanical failure - flying on a plane is too dangerous and should be avoided altogether.
Straw Man Example
Scare Tatics Example
Ad hominem Example
Hasty Generalization Example
25. 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.
Straw Man Example
Slippery Slope
Equivocation Example
Ad hominem Example
26. She is feminist; she must hate men.
Begging the Question Example
Non sequitur Example
Equivocation
Equivocation Example
27. 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.
Slipper Slop Example
Scare Tatics
Appeals to False Authority Example
Faulty Analogy
28. 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.
Slippery Slope Example
Non sequitur
Equivocation Example
Scare Tatics Example
29. 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 Causality
Slipper Slop Example
Scare Tatics Example
Faulty Analogy Example
30. Even though it's only the first day - I can tell this is going to be a boring course.
Scare Tatics
Hasty Generalization Example
Bandwagon appeal
Bandwagon Appeal Example
31. This argumentative fallacy in which the rhetor frames an issue in terms of exaggerated threats or dangers.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Scare Tatics
Red herring Example
Begging the Question
32. I can't be guilty of embezzlement; I'm an honest person.
Ad hominem Example
Begging the Question Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Red herring Example
33. 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.
Scare Tatics
Faulty Causality Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Ad hominem Example
34. If you restrict my right to say whatever I want however I want this is the beginning of totalitarianism in America.
Slippery Slope Example
Begging the Question
Faulty Causality Example
Begging the Question EX.
35. 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.
Red herring Example
Ad hominem
Slippery Slope Example
Equivocation Example
36. This sort of argument relies on the faulty assumption that because one event follows another - the second necessarily causes the first
Equivocation Example
Faulty Causality
Slippery Slope Example
Hasty Generalization Example
37. Everyone else is going out and getting drunk tonight - so you should too.
Dogmatism Example
Either/Or. Example
Bandwagon appeal
Bandwagon Appeal Example
38. Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty - lazy hippies.
Ad hominem Example
Hasty Generalization
Either/Or. Example
Scare Tatics
39. Here's what I think about what you have written: anyone who opposes the death penalty for murder is a criminal at heart.
Equivocation Example
Ad hominem Example
Red Herring
Red Herring Example
40. This is a diversionary tactic that avoid key issues - often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them.
Dogmatism Example
Red herring Example
Red Herring
Scare Tatics
41. 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
Straw Man Example
Sentimental Appeals
Appeals to False Authority
42. This fallacy of argument recommends a course of action on the grounds that everyone else is following the same path.
Faulty Analogy Example
Bandwagon appeal
Red Herring
Equivocation
43. 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)
Non sequitur
Non sequitur Example
Faulty Causality
Equivocation Example
44. 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.
Slipper Slop Example
Red Herring Example
Ad hominem Example
Either/Or. Example
45. 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
Begging the Question EX.
Bandwagon appeal
Non sequitur
46. 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
Appeals to False Authority
Bandwagon appeal
Red herring Example
47. 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.
Hasty Generalization Example
Slippery Slope Example
Straw Man
Ad hominem Example
48. We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.
Equivocation Example
Faulty Analogy
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Causality Example
49. 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
Sentimental Appeals
Scare Tatics Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Faulty Analogy
50. There's no way that anyone can argue that abortion is anything other than murder.
Ad hominem Example
Begging the Question Example
Faulty Causality Example
Dogmatism Example