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Logical Fallacies

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1. Even though it's only the first day - I can tell this is going to be a boring course.
Non sequitur Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Begging the Question Example
Either/Or. Example

2. 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.
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Causality Example

3. Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty - lazy hippies.
Hasty Generalization Example
Ad hominem Example
Hasty Generalization
Appeals to False Authority Example

4. This argument gives a lie an honest appearance - by insisting on What is only partially or formally true.
Faulty Causality Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Scare Tatics
Equivocation

5. 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.
Faulty Analogy
Sentimental Appeals Example
Dogmatism
Non sequitur Example

6. 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
Scare Tatics Example
Equivocation Example

7. Relying on manipulatively heart-warming or heart-wrenching appeals to emotion to win support for what has not been otherwise rationally justified.
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Sentimental Appeals
Red herring Example
Non sequitur Example

8. 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)
Equivocation Example
Either/Or.
Hasty Generalization
Slipper Slop Example

9. 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 Causality Example
Faulty Causality Example
Non sequitur Example
Slippery Slope

10. Everyone else is going out and getting drunk tonight - so you should too.
Hasty Generalization Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Sentimental Appeals
Either/Or. Example

11. 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.
Hasty Generalization Example
Ad hominem Example
Scare Tatics Example
Non sequitur

12. 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 Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Analogy
Equivocation Example

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

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
Ad hominem Example
Ad hominem Example
Sentimental Appeals Example
Either/Or. Example

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.
Equivocation Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Faulty Causality Example
Slippery Slope Example

16. Everyone else is displaying a flag - or a support our troops sticker on their car - therefore - you should too.
Non sequitur Example
Begging the Question
Equivocation
Bandwagon Appeal Example

17. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
Straw Man
Either/Or. Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Begging the Question Example

18. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.
Red herring Example
Bandwagon appeal
Dogmatism Example
Either/Or. Example

19. 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
Faulty Analogy Example
Either/Or.
Scare Tatics Example

20. Here's what I think about what you have written: anyone who opposes the death penalty for murder is a criminal at heart.
Ad hominem Example
Appeals to False Authority
Scare Tatics Example
Begging the Question

21. 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 Example
Equivocation Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Red Herring Example

22. I can't be guilty of embezzlement; I'm an honest person.
Begging the Question Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Equivocation
Dogmatism

23. 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.
Appeals to False Authority
Equivocation
Begging the Question
Equivocation Example

24. 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.
Dogmatism Example
Straw Man
Straw Man Example
Slippery Slope Example

25. There's no way that anyone can argue that abortion is anything other than murder.
Dogmatism Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Non sequitur Example
Faulty Causality Example

26. This argumentative fallacy in which the rhetor frames an issue in terms of exaggerated threats or dangers.
Ad hominem Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Scare Tatics
Hasty Generalization

27. Because of the possibility of a terrorist hijacking or mechanical failure - flying on a plane is too dangerous and should be avoided altogether.
Faulty Causality
Faulty Causality Example
Begging the Question Example
Scare Tatics Example

28. Either you support the president in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American
Red herring Example
Hasty Generalization
Hasty Generalization Example
Either/Or. Example

29. If you restrict my right to say whatever I want however I want this is the beginning of totalitarianism in America.
Either/Or. Example
Bandwagon appeal
Straw Man
Slippery Slope Example

30. This sort of argument relies on the faulty assumption that because one event follows another - the second necessarily causes the first
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Red Herring
Faulty Causality
Red Herring Example

31. 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.
Straw Man Example
Dogmatism Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Hasty Generalization Example

32. 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
Non sequitur Example
Dogmatism
Begging the Question Example

33. 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.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Slippery Slope Example
Equivocation
Appeals to False Authority Example

34. I drank bottled water and now I am sick - so the water must have made me sick.
Hasty Generalization Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Causality Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex

35. 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.
Begging the Question EX.
Equivocation Example
Red herring Example
Ad hominem Example

36. 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
Scare Tatics Example
Slippery Slope
Either/Or.

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

38. This is a conclusion based on insufficient evidence. In other words - you are rushing to a conclusion before you have all the relevant facts.
Equivocation Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Red herring Example
Hasty Generalization

39. 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
Non sequitur
Scare Tatics
Faulty Analogy Example
Ad hominem Example

40. 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.
Faulty Analogy Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Either/Or.
Slippery Slope Example

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

42. 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.
Slippery Slope Example
Red herring Example
Faulty Analogy
Straw Man

43. She is feminist; she must hate men.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Non sequitur Example
Slipper Slop Example
Red herring Example

44. 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.
Begging the Question Example
Ad hominem
Sentimental Appeals Example
Appeals to False Authority

45. The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe - but what will fishers do to support their families?
Begging the Question Example
Scare Tatics Example
Red herring Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example

46. This fallacy of argument recommends a course of action on the grounds that everyone else is following the same path.
Begging the Question EX.
Bandwagon appeal
Ad hominem Example
Appeals to False Authority

47. If we can Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars - so we should not ban hummers.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Dogmatism
Slipper Slop Example
Scare Tatics Example

48. 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.
Hasty Generalization Example
Red Herring Example
Either/Or.
Ad hominem Example

49. 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.
Straw Man
Bandwagon appeal
Non sequitur
Hasty Generalization Example

50. We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.
Either/Or. Example
Begging the Question
Slipper Slop Example
Appeals to False Authority