Logical Fallacies

All women are bad drivers.

• equivocation
• bandwagon
• stereotype
• ad hominem

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

We need to stop allowing colleges to increase tuition every year. The next thing we know, it's going to cost more to attend college for one semester than it is to buy a new home!

• bandwagon
• slippery slope
• hasty generalization
• equivocation

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

Money makes people arrogant.

• slippery slope
• bandwagon
• red herring
• false cause

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

You visit a new country and the first person you meet in the airport is rude. You send a message to a friend back home that everyone in this new country is rude.

• hasty generalization
• bad analogy
• false cause
• loaded language

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

Regime vs. government
Pro-death vs. pro-choice

• slippery slope
• ad hominem
• red herring
• loaded language

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

CCSS.W.9-10.1

CCSS.W.9-10.1B

If you break your diet and have one cookie tonight, you will just want to eat 10 cookies tomorrow, and before you know it, you will have gained back the 15 pounds you lost.

• hasty generalization
• slippery slope
• bad analogy
• loaded language

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

When your mom gets your phone bill and you have gone over the limit, you begin talking to her about how hard your math class is and how well you did on a test today.

• slippery slope
• bandwagon
• red herring
• hasty generalization

Tags

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

Saying that men don't ever ask for directions

• stereotype
• red herring
• bad analogy
• ad hominem

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

"That's why, under my plan, individuals will be required to carry basic health insurance -- just as most states require you to carry auto insurance. Likewise, businesses will be required to either offer their workers health care, or chip in to help cover the cost of their workers." President Obama on Universal Health Coverage (some feel that health insurance and car insurance are different on many fundamental aspects, and this is a bad comparison)

• red herring
• bad analogy
• slippery slope
• hasty generalization

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.SL.9-10.3