Logical Fallacies

creates fear in people as evidence to support a claim

• Scare Tactic

• False Dilemma

• Traditional Wisdom

• Bandwagon

Ad Hominem

• Manipulates emotions

• Against the person. Attacks the person and not the issue

• creates a circle in reasoning

• Jumping to conclusions

Appeal to Emotions

• Everyone is doing it so you should too

• Either/Or

• Manipulates emotions in order to get attention away from an important issue

• Creates fear in people as evidence to support a claim

False Dilemma

• Either/Or Limits possible choices to avoid consideration of another choice

• Jumping to conclusions

• Presents an irrelevant topic to divert attention

• Everyone is doing it so you should too

Hasty Generalization

• jumping to conclusions

• Uses the logic that the way things used to be are better than now

• Presents an irrelevant topic to divert attention

• creates fear in people as evidence to support a claim

Red Herring

• creates a circle in reasoning where no new information is presented

• everyone is doing it so you should too

• Presents an irrelevant topic to divert attention

• Either/or limits possible choices

Traditional Wisdom

• Uses the logic that the way things used to be are better than now ignoring problems of the past

• creates a circle in reasoning where no useful information is being shared.

• Draws a conclusion based on a small sample.

• Either/Or. Limits possible choices to avoid consideration of another.

Bandwagon

• creates the impression that everyone is doing it, so you should too

• manipulates emotions in order to support a claim

• Jumping to conclusions

• Presents an irrelevant topic to divert attention

Circular Reasoning

• Jumping to conclusions

• Attacks the person and not the issue

• Creates a circle in reasoning where no useful information is presented

• The way things used to be are better than they are now.