Logical Fallacies

Open Ended

What are we learning today?

Multiple Choice

What are the common logical fallacies mentioned on the previous slide?

• Hasty generalization

• False cause

• Ad hominem

• All of the above

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A very broad claim based on very little evidence

• Weak analogy

• False Dichotomy

• Hasty Generalization

• Straw Man

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General statement or conclusion that is made without enough (if any) evidence.

• ad hominem

• strawman

• red herring

• hasty generalization

Multiple Choice

Which fallacy is pictured?

• Straw Man

• Ad Hominem

• Red Herring

• Bandwagon

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"The two books I read this year were not interesting. All books are just boring and a waste of time.

• Ad hominem

• False dilemma

• Hasty generalization

• Slippery Slope

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“She was wearing cowboy boots in her last Instagram picture so she must be into country music.”

• bandwagon

• either/or

• hasty generalization

• straw man

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Kevin's grandparents do not know how to use a computer. Kevin thinks that all older people must be computer illiterate.

• bandwagon
• hasty generalization
• red herring
• slippery slope

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Charlie: I think we should put more money into schools. Quality public education is so important.

Bob: So you’re saying we should cut military spending and spend it instead on more spiral notebooks and crayons? I guess you want our country to be a weak, defenseless target for terrorists.

• Ad Hominem

• Hasty Generalization

• Faulty Causality

• Straw Man

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My opponent raises a good point, but can we really trust him? I mean, he moved to this town only two years ago and everyone knows that his wife left him.

• Slippery Slope

• Sentimental Appeal

• Bandwagon

• Ad Hominem

Multiple Choice

An ad hominem attack

• is a very effective debate strategy
• goes after a person's argument.
• is always against a popular idea.
• is an attack on the person, not the argument 

Multiple Choice

Why is this a logical fallacy: 
"Senator Jones says that we should not fund the attack submarine program. I disagree entirely. I can't understand why he wants to leave us defenseless like that."

• It is showing Senator Jones is an authority on submarines.
• Submarines are popular.
• It changes the argument to something else. 
• It stereotypes submarines.

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Why is this a logical fallacy? "You can never give anyone a break. If you do, they'll walk all over you."

• It oversimplifies the problem.
• It leads to something that probably won't happen.
• It only gives two choices to a larger problem.
• It argues someone's an expert.

Poll

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