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Logical Fallacies

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1. Either you support the president in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Causality
Begging the Question Example
Dogmatism Example

2. I don't support the President's foreign policy; look at the disastrous way he has taken care of our domestic economy.
Hasty Generalization
Red Herring
Equivocation Example
Red herring Example

3. Because of the possibility of a terrorist hijacking or mechanical failure - flying on a plane is too dangerous and should be avoided altogether.
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Begging the Question EX.
Dogmatism
Scare Tatics Example

4. 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 Analogy Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Non sequitur
Dogmatism

5. This argumentative fallacy in which the rhetor frames an issue in terms of exaggerated threats or dangers.
Appeals to False Authority
Begging the Question Example
Scare Tatics
Ad hominem Example

6. There's no way that anyone can argue that abortion is anything other than murder.
Ad hominem Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Dogmatism Example
Non sequitur Example

7. 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
Faulty Analogy
Begging the Question EX.
Bandwagon Appeal Example

8. Even though it's only the first day - I can tell this is going to be a boring course.
Ad hominem Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Equivocation Example
Sentimental Appeals

9. 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.
Scare Tatics Example
Ad hominem Example
Non sequitur Example
Faulty Causality

10. 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
Either/Or. Example
Begging the Question EX.
Ad hominem Example

11. You can't give me a C - I'm an A student.
Red Herring Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Begging the Question EX.
Faulty Analogy Example

12. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than her/his opinions or arguments.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Ad hominem
Red Herring Example
Red herring Example

13. 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
Appeals to False Authority Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Slippery Slope

14. 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
Dogmatism Example
Begging the Question EX.

15. I can't be guilty of embezzlement; I'm an honest person.
Either/Or. Example
Begging the Question Example
Ad hominem
Faulty Analogy 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.
Straw Man Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Analogy
Straw Man

17. 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
Ad hominem Example
Begging the Question Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example

18. 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
Faulty Causality Example
Faulty Causality Example

19. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.
Begging the Question Example
Either/Or. Example
Hasty Generalization
Faulty Analogy Example

20. 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
Red herring Example
Equivocation Example
Slippery Slope Example

21. 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.
Red Herring
Hasty Generalization Example
Appeals to False Authority
Dogmatism

22. 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
Hasty Generalization Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Sentimental Appeals Example

23. 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
Non sequitur
Equivocation Example
Non sequitur Example

24. 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.
Faulty Causality Example
Straw Man
Red Herring
Begging the Question

25. 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.
Non sequitur Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex

26. We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.
Begging the Question
Either/Or. Example
Slippery Slope
Begging the Question Example

27. The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe - but what will fishers do to support their families?
Equivocation Example
Red herring Example
Begging the Question Example
Faulty Analogy

28. Here's what I think about what you have written: anyone who opposes the death penalty for murder is a criminal at heart.
Either/Or. Example
Slippery Slope
Equivocation
Ad hominem Example

29. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Begging the Question Example
Ad hominem Example

30. 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.
Slippery Slope Example
Begging the Question EX.
Non sequitur Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example

31. Everyone else is displaying a flag - or a support our troops sticker on their car - therefore - you should too.
Slipper Slop Example
Faulty Analogy
Faulty Analogy Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example

32. 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.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Ad hominem Example
Faulty Causality Example
Either/Or. Example

33. 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.
Bandwagon appeal
Faulty Analogy Example
Non sequitur Example
Sentimental Appeals Example

34. I drank bottled water and now I am sick - so the water must have made me sick.
Faulty Causality Example
Faulty Causality
Equivocation Example
Red herring Example

35. Everyone else is going out and getting drunk tonight - so you should too.
Faulty Causality Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Begging the Question EX.

36. She is feminist; she must hate men.
Either/Or. Example
Sentimental Appeals Example
Straw Man
Non sequitur Example

37. 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.)
Bandwagon appeal
Either/Or. Example
Equivocation Example
Begging the Question EX.

38. This fallacy of argument recommends a course of action on the grounds that everyone else is following the same path.
Slippery Slope Example
Scare Tatics
Either/Or. Example
Bandwagon appeal

39. 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.
Red Herring Example
Faulty Analogy
Equivocation Example
Dogmatism

40. 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.
Non sequitur Example
Non sequitur
Hasty Generalization Example
Dogmatism Example

41. 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
Hasty Generalization Example
Sentimental Appeals
Either/Or. Example

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.
Straw Man
Either/Or. Example
Straw Man Example
Appeals to False Authority Example

43. 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.
Dogmatism
Faulty Causality Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Hasty Generalization Example

44. 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
Ad hominem Example
Straw Man Example
Faulty Causality Example

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

46. This is a conclusion that oversimplifies the argument by reducing it only to two sides or choices.
Scare Tatics Example
Red herring Example
Either/Or.
Faulty Analogy Example

47. This sort of argument relies on the faulty assumption that because one event follows another - the second necessarily causes the first
Faulty Causality
Either/Or. Example
Sentimental Appeals Example
Non sequitur

48. This is a diversionary tactic that avoid key issues - often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them.
Begging the Question
Red Herring
Equivocation Example
Faulty Analogy

49. Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty - lazy hippies.
Ad hominem Example
Non sequitur Example
Faulty Causality Example
Faulty Causality Example

50. 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
Straw Man
Red herring Example
Either/Or.