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Logical Fallacies
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Subject
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logic-and-reasoning
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. 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.
Slippery Slope Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Either/Or.
Non sequitur
2. 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
Non sequitur Example
Begging the Question
Either/Or. Example
3. 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.
Dogmatism
Hasty Generalization Example
Faulty Causality Example
Dogmatism Example
4. I can't be guilty of embezzlement; I'm an honest person.
Non sequitur Example
Equivocation Example
Non sequitur Example
Begging the Question Example
5. This sort of argument relies on the faulty assumption that because one event follows another - the second necessarily causes the first
Red herring Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Faulty Causality
Straw Man
6. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
Sentimental Appeals Example
Begging the Question Example
Appeals to False Authority Example
Equivocation Example
7. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than her/his opinions or arguments.
Straw Man
Red Herring
Faulty Analogy Example
Ad hominem
8. 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.
Equivocation Example
Non sequitur Example
Slippery Slope Example
Dogmatism Example
9. 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
Dogmatism Example
Non sequitur Example
10. There's no way that anyone can argue that abortion is anything other than murder.
Faulty Causality
Begging the Question EX.
Ad hominem Example
Dogmatism Example
11. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.
Slippery Slope Example
Non sequitur
Straw Man Example
Either/Or. Example
12. Relying on manipulatively heart-warming or heart-wrenching appeals to emotion to win support for what has not been otherwise rationally justified.
Sentimental Appeals
Faulty Causality Example
Slippery Slope Example
Either/Or.
13. 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.
Faulty Analogy Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Begging the Question EX.
Appeals to False Authority Example
14. 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.
Dogmatism
Dogmatism Example
Red herring Example
Slippery Slope
15. This argument gives a lie an honest appearance - by insisting on What is only partially or formally true.
Sentimental Appeals
Bandwagon appeal
Dogmatism
Equivocation
16. 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.)
Hasty Generalization Example
Equivocation Example
Ad hominem Example
Either/Or. Example
17. 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
Begging the Question Example
Sentimental Appeals Example
Begging the Question
Begging the Question EX.
18. 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.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Begging the Question
Straw Man Example
19. 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
Hasty Generalization
Equivocation Example
Bandwagon appeal
20. 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
Sentimental Appeals
Slippery Slope
Ad hominem Example
21. Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty - lazy hippies.
Equivocation Example
Dogmatism
Ad hominem Example
Red Herring
22. If we can Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars - so we should not ban hummers.
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Equivocation Example
Slipper Slop Example
Faulty Causality
23. The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe - but what will fishers do to support their families?
Slippery Slope Example
Either/Or.
Equivocation
Red herring Example
24. 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.
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Equivocation Example
Non sequitur
Slippery Slope Example
25. Here's what I think about what you have written: anyone who opposes the death penalty for murder is a criminal at heart.
Faulty Analogy Example
Slippery Slope
Ad hominem Example
Faulty Causality Example
26. 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
Ad hominem Example
Scare Tatics Example
Non sequitur Example
27. You can't give me a C - I'm an A student.
Dogmatism
Begging the Question EX.
Dogmatism Example
Non sequitur Example
28. This fallacy of argument recommends a course of action on the grounds that everyone else is following the same path.
Scare Tatics Example
Bandwagon appeal
Red herring Example
Dogmatism Example
29. This argumentative fallacy in which the rhetor frames an issue in terms of exaggerated threats or dangers.
Red herring Example
Straw Man Example
Scare Tatics
Hasty Generalization Example
30. Everyone else is going out and getting drunk tonight - so you should too.
Scare Tatics Example
Red herring Example
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Slippery Slope Example
31. 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.
Ad hominem Example
Red herring Example
Red herring Example
Red Herring Example
32. We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.
Either/Or. Example
Scare Tatics
Slippery Slope Example
Non sequitur Example
33. 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.
Faulty Causality Example
Slipper Slop Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Either/Or. Example
34. Either you support the president in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American
Appeals to False Authority Example
Ad hominem
Either/Or. Example
Faulty Analogy Example
35. Everyone else is displaying a flag - or a support our troops sticker on their car - therefore - you should too.
Bandwagon Appeal Example
Slipper Slop Example
Straw Man Example
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
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.
Appeals to False Authority Example
Hasty Generalization Example
Straw Man Example
Begging the Question
37. She is feminist; she must hate men.
Appeals to False Authority
Non sequitur Example
Dogmatism
Faulty Causality Example
38. 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.
Scare Tatics Example
Ad hominem Example
Red Herring
Straw Man
39. 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
Either/Or. Example
Dogmatism Example
40. 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
Faulty Analogy
Scare Tatics Example
Either/Or. 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.
Bandwagon appeal
Hasty Generalization
Hasty Generalization Example
Ad hominem
42. I drank bottled water and now I am sick - so the water must have made me sick.
Bandwagon appeal
Ad hominem Example
Red Herring
Faulty Causality Example
43. 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
Dogmatism Example
Faulty Analogy
Equivocation
44. If you restrict my right to say whatever I want however I want this is the beginning of totalitarianism in America.
Non sequitur Example
Either/Or. Example
Sentimental Appeals Example
Slippery Slope Example
45. 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.
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Faulty Analogy Example
Either/Or. Example
Straw Man
46. This is a conclusion that oversimplifies the argument by reducing it only to two sides or choices.
Faulty Causality Example
Either/Or.
Straw Man
Hasty Generalization Example
47. This is a diversionary tactic that avoid key issues - often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them.
Non sequitur Example
Red Herring Example
Either/Or. Example
Red Herring
48. Because of the possibility of a terrorist hijacking or mechanical failure - flying on a plane is too dangerous and should be avoided altogether.
Equivocation Example
Faulty Causality Example
Faulty Analogy Example
Scare Tatics Example
49. I don't support the President's foreign policy; look at the disastrous way he has taken care of our domestic economy.
Ad hominem Example
Equivocation
Hasty Generalization Example
Red herring Example
50. 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.
Bandwagon appeal
Sentimental Appeals. Ex
Hasty Generalization Example
Appeals to False Authority Example