Logical Fallacies Quiz

This logical fallacy involves "painting with a broad brush" and positing that a person or source is unworthy due to his/her/its racial, geographic and/or ethnic origins

• Post Hoc Ad Hoc
• Ad Populum
• Genetic
• Ipso Facto

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

This logical fallacy is nothing more than a personal attack.

• Snob
• Amphiboly
• Sum Ergo
• Ad Hominem

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

This logical fallacy asserts than an opponent's assertions must be false because the critic simply can't imagine or understand it.

• Post Hoc Ad Hoc
• Incredulity
• Genetic
• Amphiboly

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

This logical fallacy sometimes is used interchangeably with circular reasoning.

• Begging the Dog
• Amphiboly
• Circular Reasoning
• Begging the Question

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

This logical fallacy suggests a cause/effect relationship that doesn't exist.

• Genetic
• False Cause
• Quid Pro Quo
• Amphiboly

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

This fallacy occurs when a rhetorician adapts an argument to fit a particular conclusion rather than accepting the proper conclusion of the logical reasoning.

• Irrelevant Conclusion
• False Cause
• Post Hoc Ad Hoc
• Amphiboly

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

This fallacy includes any lame attempt to "prove" an argument by overstating, exaggerating, or over-simplifying the arguments of the opposing side.

• Red Herring
• Post Hoc Ad Hoc
• Straw Man
• Begging the Question

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

This fallacy is one in which the speaker argues that, once the first step is undertaken, a second or third step will inevitably follow, much like the way one step on a slippery incline will cause a person to fall and slide all the way to the bottom.

• Genetic
• Post Hoc Ad Hoc
• Amphiboly
• Slippery Slope

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

This fallacy occurs when using a word in a different way than the author used it in the original premise, or changing definitions halfway through a discussion.

• Red Herring
• Composition
• Equidistant
• Equivocation

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

This fallacy involves defining terms in such a narrow or unrealistic manner as to exclude or omit relevant examples from a sample.

• No True Country
• No True Scotsman
• No Hoc Post Hoc
• Argument from the Negative

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1