Logical Fallacies #1

Attacking the individual instead of the argument is...

• Cause and Effect
• Slippery Slope
• Ad Hominem
• Circular Argument

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How do you know there aren't dragons?  I mean, do you have any proof that there aren't any?

• Anecdotal
• Bandwagon
• Hasty Generalization
• Burden of Proof

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When the rooster crows, the sun rises. Therefore, the rooster causes the sun to rise. 

• False cause / cause and effect
• Hasty generalization
• Red Herring
• Appeal to authority

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Introducing a topic not related to the subject at hand.

• Strawman
• Circular argument
• Red Herring
• Cause and effect

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Example of a strawman fallacy is...

• The government doesn't take care of the poor because it doesn't have a tax specifically to support the poor.

• I figured you couldn't possibly get it right, so I ignored your comment.

• You presented a circular argument in which the conclusion was included in the premise.

• You misrepresented someone's argument to make it easier to attack.

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I have flipped heads five times in a row. As a result, the next flip will probably be tails.

• Begging the question
• Bandwagon
• Appeal to Authority
• Gambler's fallacy

An argument from small numbers, statistics of small numbers, insufficient statistics, argument by taking sweeping sample, hasty induction, insufficient evidence.

• Slippery slope

• Ad hominem

• Hasty generalization

• Cause and Effect

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You are so stupid your argument couldn't possibly be true.

• Appeal to tradition
• Cause and effect
• Hasty generalization
• Ad hominem

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You asked a question that had an assumption built into it so that it couldn't be answered without appearing guilty.

• False cause
• Loaded question
• Ad hominem
• Slippery slope

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A type of reasoning used when you attempt to make an argument by beginning with an assumption that what you are trying to prove is already true.

• Burden of proof

• Appeal to authority

• Circular argument

• Red Herring

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