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Logical Fallacies

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. 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
Either/Or. Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Sentimental Appeals Example

2. 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 Example
Begging the Question Example
Appeals to False Authority

3. This is a conclusion that oversimplifies the argument by reducing it only to two sides or choices.
Either/Or.
Begging the Question EX.
Appeals to False Authority
Appeals to False Authority Example

4. This is a diversionary tactic that avoid key issues - often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them.
Dogmatism Example
Red Herring
Slipper Slop Example
Straw Man Example

5. You can't give me a C - I'm an A student.
Either/Or.
Begging the Question EX.
Ad hominem Example
Faulty Analogy 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.
Ad hominem Example
Faulty Causality Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Analogy

7. 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.)
Slippery Slope
Equivocation Example
Non sequitur Example
Red Herring Example

8. 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.
Equivocation
Either/Or. Example
Equivocation Example
Appeals to False Authority Example

9. This argumentative fallacy in which the rhetor frames an issue in terms of exaggerated threats or dangers.
Non sequitur Example
Equivocation Example
Either/Or.
Scare Tatics

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

11. Because of the possibility of a terrorist hijacking or mechanical failure - flying on a plane is too dangerous and should be avoided altogether.
Red herring Example
Equivocation Example
Sentimental Appeals Example
Scare Tatics Example

12. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than her/his opinions or arguments.
Red Herring
Either/Or.
Non sequitur Example
Ad hominem

13. 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.
Ad hominem
Straw Man Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Red Herring Example

14. 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
Red herring Example
Faulty Causality Example
Scare Tatics Example
Sentimental Appeals Example

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.
Begging the Question Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Red herring Example
Scare Tatics Example

16. I drank bottled water and now I am sick - so the water must have made me sick.
Equivocation Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Causality Example

17. She is feminist; she must hate men.
Non sequitur Example
Ad hominem Example
Begging the Question Example
Begging the Question EX.

18. Relying on manipulatively heart-warming or heart-wrenching appeals to emotion to win support for what has not been otherwise rationally justified.
Sentimental Appeals
Hasty Generalization Example
Dogmatism Example
Scare Tatics

19. Everyone else is displaying a flag - or a support our troops sticker on their car - therefore - you should too.
Straw Man Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Ad hominem Example

20. This sort of argument relies on the faulty assumption that because one event follows another - the second necessarily causes the first
Bandwagon appeal
Equivocation Example
Faulty Causality
Either/Or. Example

21. This fallacy of argument recommends a course of action on the grounds that everyone else is following the same path.
Faulty Causality Example
Either/Or. Example
Either/Or. Example
Bandwagon appeal

22. Everyone else is going out and getting drunk tonight - so you should too.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Faulty Causality Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Hasty Generalization

23. 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
Hasty Generalization Example
Scare Tatics Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example

24. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Begging the Question
Faulty Causality

25. 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.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Straw Man Example
Scare Tatics Example
Slippery Slope

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

27. 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.
Begging the Question Example
Begging the Question
Red herring Example
Scare Tatics Example

28. Either you support the president in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American
Scare Tatics Example
Non sequitur
Begging the Question Example
Either/Or. Example

29. 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.
Equivocation
Hasty Generalization
Appeals to False Authority Example
Hasty Generalization Example

30. 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.
Ad hominem Example
Slippery Slope
Begging the Question
Faulty Analogy Example

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

32. 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.
Scare Tatics
Red Herring Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Causality

33. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
Scare Tatics Example
Slippery Slope Example
Begging the Question Example
Bandwagon appeal

34. I can't be guilty of embezzlement; I'm an honest person.
Equivocation
Straw Man
Non sequitur Example
Begging the Question Example

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

36. 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.
Non sequitur Example
Begging the Question
Begging the Question Example
Faulty Analogy Example

37. There's no way that anyone can argue that abortion is anything other than murder.
Ad hominem Example
Begging the Question Example
Faulty Analogy
Dogmatism Example

38. 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
Either/Or. Example
Non sequitur Example
Sentimental Appeals

39. This argument gives a lie an honest appearance - by insisting on What is only partially or formally true.
Hasty Generalization
Equivocation
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Dogmatism Example

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

41. We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.
Hasty Generalization Example
Slipper Slop Example
Either/Or. Example
Red Herring Example

42. 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 Example
Ad hominem
Begging the Question Example
Ad hominem Example

43. If we can Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars - so we should not ban hummers.
Either/Or. Example
Non sequitur Example
Slipper Slop Example
Equivocation Example

44. 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.
Faulty Analogy Example
Dogmatism
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Slipper Slop Example

45. 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.
Ad hominem Example
Scare Tatics
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Causality Example

46. 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
Ad hominem
Scare Tatics Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Faulty Analogy Example

47. 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)
Hasty Generalization Example
Equivocation Example
Ad hominem
Either/Or. Example

48. 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
Non sequitur Example
Slippery Slope Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex

49. 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.
Non sequitur Example
Ad hominem Example
Non sequitur Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex

50. 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
Faulty Causality Example
Slipper Slop Example
Bandwagon appeal