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Logical Fallacies

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1. There's no way that anyone can argue that abortion is anything other than murder.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Ad hominem Example
Ad hominem Example
Dogmatism Example

2. 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.
Ad hominem
Equivocation Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Hasty Generalization Example

3. This is a diversionary tactic that avoid key issues - often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them.
Non sequitur
Red herring Example
Red Herring
Ad hominem Example

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

5. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
Ad hominem Example
Non sequitur Example
Begging the Question Example
Faulty Analogy

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.
Faulty Analogy Example
Ad hominem Example
Faulty Analogy
Sentimental Appeals Example

7. You can't give me a C - I'm an A student.
Faulty Analogy Example
Begging the Question EX.
Faulty Causality
Bandwagon Appeal Example

8. 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.
Slippery Slope Example
Equivocation Example
Hasty Generalization
Appeals to False Authority Example

9. 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
Faulty Analogy
Begging the Question EX.
Non sequitur Example

10. We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.
Faulty Causality Example
Non sequitur Example
Faulty Causality Example
Either/Or. Example

11. Everyone else is displaying a flag - or a support our troops sticker on their car - therefore - you should too.
Faulty Analogy
Ad hominem
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Faulty Causality Example

12. 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.
Red herring Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Begging the Question
Ad hominem Example

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.
Hasty Generalization Example
Straw Man Example
Appeals to False Authority
Ad hominem

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

15. 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.
Straw Man Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Appeals to False Authority
Sentimental Appeals Example

16. The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe - but what will fishers do to support their families?
Ad hominem Example
Begging the Question EX.
Non sequitur
Red herring Example

17. 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
Slipper Slop Example
Red Herring
Ad hominem Example

18. 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
Straw Man

19. 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.
Ad hominem Example
Non sequitur
Faulty Analogy
Hasty Generalization

20. 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.)
Ad hominem Example
Begging the Question Example
Equivocation Example
Faulty Causality

21. I don't support the President's foreign policy; look at the disastrous way he has taken care of our domestic economy.
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Begging the Question Example
Faulty Causality
Red herring 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.
Dogmatism Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Faulty Analogy Example

23. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.
Hasty Generalization Example
Slipper Slop Example
Red Herring Example
Either/Or. Example

24. Here's what I think about what you have written: anyone who opposes the death penalty for murder is a criminal at heart.
Slippery Slope Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Faulty Causality Example
Ad hominem Example

25. She is feminist; she must hate men.
Ad hominem Example
Red Herring Example
Non sequitur Example
Red Herring

26. 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
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Red herring Example
Non sequitur Example

27. 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.
Begging the Question Example
Red Herring Example
Ad hominem Example
Begging the Question EX.

28. This argumentative fallacy in which the rhetor frames an issue in terms of exaggerated threats or dangers.
Sentimental Appeals Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Scare Tatics
Ad hominem Example

29. 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.
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Faulty Analogy
Sentimental Appeals
Dogmatism Example

30. I drank bottled water and now I am sick - so the water must have made me sick.
Straw Man
Faulty Causality Example
Ad hominem Example
Slippery Slope

31. 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.
Appeals to False Authority
Equivocation Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Bandwagon appeal

32. Everyone else is going out and getting drunk tonight - so you should too.
Straw Man
Either/Or.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Slippery Slope Example

33. This is a conclusion that oversimplifies the argument by reducing it only to two sides or choices.
Hasty Generalization
Either/Or.
Sentimental Appeals Example
Equivocation

34. 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.
Equivocation Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Scare Tatics Example
Appeals to False Authority Example

35. 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 Example
Scare Tatics Example
Faulty Causality

36. If we can Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars - so we should not ban hummers.
Slipper Slop Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Sentimental Appeals
Scare Tatics Example

37. 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.
Slippery Slope Example
Non sequitur Example
Faulty Causality Example
Hasty Generalization

38. This fallacy of argument recommends a course of action on the grounds that everyone else is following the same path.
Non sequitur Example
Slipper Slop Example
Either/Or.
Bandwagon appeal

39. Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty - lazy hippies.
Begging the Question EX.
Ad hominem
Ad hominem Example
Straw Man Example

40. Either you support the president in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American
Sentimental Appeals Example
Dogmatism Example
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Analogy Example

41. I can't be guilty of embezzlement; I'm an honest person.
Faulty Analogy Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Slippery Slope
Begging the Question Example

42. 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. Ex
Non sequitur Example
Sentimental Appeals Example
Begging the Question

43. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than her/his opinions or arguments.
Ad hominem
Slippery Slope Example
Hasty Generalization
Either/Or. Example

44. 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
Either/Or. Example
Appeals to False Authority
Sentimental Appeals

45. 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
Equivocation Example
Either/Or. Example
Slipper Slop Example
Faulty Analogy Example

46. 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.
Begging the Question Example
Slippery Slope Example
Straw Man Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example

47. 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 Example
Scare Tatics
Equivocation
Scare Tatics Example

48. 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.
Non sequitur
Dogmatism
Slippery Slope Example
Either/Or. Example

49. 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.
Ad hominem Example
Faulty Causality Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Straw Man Example

50. 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
Red Herring Example
Non sequitur Example
Sentimental Appeals Example