Logical Fallacies (Fall)

an argument that something complex can be looked at in only two different ways

• ad hominem
• either/or
• non-sequitur
• begging the question

an attack on another person’s character instead of his/her ideas or point of view

• begging the question
• false analogy
• oversimplification
• ad hominem

comparing two things that are irrelevant and that do not pose a valid comparison

• circular argument
• false analogy
• hasty generalization
• slippery slope

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

• slippery slope
• hasty generalization
• circular argument
• begging the question

a conclusion that does not clearly support the claim

• non-sequitur
• false analogy
• ad hominem
• either/or reasoning

lacks the support necessary to be inductive reasoning

• begging the question
• oversimplification
• hasty generalization
• false analogy

reducing an idea too much so it loses the point trying to be made

• non-sequitur
• false analogy
• circular reasoning
• oversimplification

restates the argument rather than actually proving it

• ad hominem
• begging the question
•  circular reasoning
• hasty generalization

the situation that results when a writer or speaker constructs an argument on an assumption that the audience does not accept

• either/or reasoning
• circular reasoning
• begging the question
• slippery slope

• ad hominem
• oversimplification
• non-sequitur
• hasty generalization