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Logical Fallacies

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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
Faulty Causality
Scare Tatics
Faulty Causality Example

2. You can't give me a C - I'm an A student.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Begging the Question EX.
Sentimental Appeals
Hasty Generalization Example

3. 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.
Either/Or. Example
Equivocation Example
Faulty Causality Example
Non sequitur Example

4. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
Either/Or. Example
Begging the Question Example
Faulty Causality Example
Slippery Slope Example

5. She is feminist; she must hate men.
Non sequitur Example
Sentimental Appeals
Ad hominem Example
Equivocation

6. I can't be guilty of embezzlement; I'm an honest person.
Ad hominem
Dogmatism Example
Begging the Question Example
Scare Tatics Example

7. 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
Ad hominem Example
Scare Tatics 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.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Red herring Example
Ad hominem Example
Dogmatism Example

9. 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
Appeals to False Authority
Slipper Slop Example
Ad hominem Example

10. 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
Red herring Example
Faulty Causality Example
Faulty Analogy

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.
Appeals to False Authority
Non sequitur Example
Faulty Causality Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex

12. This argument gives a lie an honest appearance - by insisting on What is only partially or formally true.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Equivocation
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Appeals to False Authority

13. There's no way that anyone can argue that abortion is anything other than murder.
Dogmatism Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Non sequitur Example
Slippery Slope Example

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.
Sentimental Appeals
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Hasty Generalization
Straw Man

15. 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.
Straw Man Example
Non sequitur Example
Red Herring Example
Ad hominem Example

16. I knew a gay guy who was not very masculine; this just goes to show that gay guys are more effeminate than straight men.
Ad hominem
Ad hominem Example
Scare Tatics Example
Hasty Generalization Example

17. Even though it's only the first day - I can tell this is going to be a boring course.
Scare Tatics
Ad hominem
Faulty Causality
Hasty Generalization Example

18. Either you support the president in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Non sequitur
Either/Or. Example

19. If we can Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars - so we should not ban hummers.
Hasty Generalization Example
Equivocation
Begging the Question Example
Slipper Slop Example

20. 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.
Begging the Question EX.
Non sequitur
Scare Tatics Example
Slippery Slope

21. This sort of argument relies on the faulty assumption that because one event follows another - the second necessarily causes the first
Ad hominem Example
Non sequitur Example
Faulty Causality
Begging the Question 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.
Hasty Generalization Example
Begging the Question Example
Faulty Causality Example
Slippery Slope Example

23. 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
Red Herring
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Begging the Question Example

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

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

26. 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.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Dogmatism
Begging the Question

27. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.
Sentimental Appeals
Either/Or. Example
Equivocation Example
Ad hominem Example

28. Everyone else is going out and getting drunk tonight - so you should too.
Bandwagon appeal
Appeals to False Authority
Equivocation
Bandwagon Appeal Example

29. 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.
Slipper Slop Example
Equivocation
Faulty Analogy Example
Slippery Slope Example

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

31. Everyone else is displaying a flag - or a support our troops sticker on their car - therefore - you should too.
Bandwagon appeal
Appeals to False Authority Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example

32. 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
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Sentimental Appeals
Sentimental Appeals Example
Faulty Analogy Example

33. 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.
Red Herring Example
Ad hominem Example
Hasty Generalization
Slippery Slope

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

35. 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
Slippery Slope Example
Equivocation Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex

36. I drank bottled water and now I am sick - so the water must have made me sick.
Dogmatism
Sentimental Appeals
Faulty Causality Example
Either/Or. Example

37. 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
Faulty Causality Example
Equivocation Example
Bandwagon appeal

38. 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
Appeals to False Authority Example
Straw Man
Scare Tatics Example

39. 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
Hasty Generalization
Sentimental Appeals Example

40. Here's what I think about what you have written: anyone who opposes the death penalty for murder is a criminal at heart.
Dogmatism Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Ad hominem Example
Red herring Example

41. 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.
Hasty Generalization Example
Dogmatism Example
Equivocation Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex

42. 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
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Faulty Causality
Hasty Generalization

43. Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty - lazy hippies.
Begging the Question
Slippery Slope
Ad hominem Example
Scare Tatics Example

44. 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
Begging the Question
Red Herring
Scare Tatics Example

45. If you restrict my right to say whatever I want however I want this is the beginning of totalitarianism in America.
Faulty Causality Example
Scare Tatics Example
Slippery Slope Example
Equivocation

46. We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.
Straw Man
Bandwagon appeal
Either/Or. Example
Begging the Question

47. 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.
Red Herring
Faulty Analogy Example
Begging the Question
Either/Or. Example

48. This is a diversionary tactic that avoid key issues - often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them.
Scare Tatics
Either/Or. Example
Begging the Question Example
Red Herring

49. This argumentative fallacy in which the rhetor frames an issue in terms of exaggerated threats or dangers.
Equivocation
Scare Tatics
Red herring Example
Equivocation Example

50. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than her/his opinions or arguments.
Ad hominem
Begging the Question Example
Scare Tatics Example
Ad hominem Example