Fallacies Practice

Grizzly bears can't be dangerous! They're too cute.

• hasty generalization

• red herring

• strawman

• ad hominem

Senator Ribbit is a liar. You shouldn't listen to him on anything.

• circular reasoning

• ad hominem

• slippery slope

• red herring

My uncle is a mechanic and he says you shouldn't spank children. He says it's ineffective.

• faulty authority

• hasty generalization

• strawman

• either/or

If we let the government implant tracking devices in criminals, it's not going to stop there! They're going to want to track school children and eventually everyone!

• either/or

• slippery slope

• non sequitur

• faulty cause and effect

Southerners talk fast. I was just on the phone with one, and I could barely keep up!

• slippery slope

• circular reasoning/begging the question

• hasty generalization

• non sequitur

You've got to teach the boys logic! If you don't teach them logic, they won't learn how to think! And they'll become hobos and die in prison! Don't you care about your sons? (Mother to Father)

• either/or

• hasty generalization

• faulty cause and effect

• strawman

Politician Running for Public Office: You can all trust what I say. I have never lied in my life.

• strawman

• faulty authority

• circular reasoning/begging the question

• non sequitur

Bert: I've been learning about the Second World War lately. I found that America provoked Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor. I don't think that was the right thing to do.

Jenny: Oh, so you are now taking the side of Axis? Do you think Germany and Japan were right to do what they did?

• faulty cause and effect

• strawman

• ad hominem

• non sequitur

Since a single human cell becomes a grown man over a period of a few years, then surely it can't be impossible for a single-cell organism to become the human race over a period of several million years.

• weak analogy

• hasty generalization

• non sequitur

• circular reasoning

There's no point listening to you. Everybody knows you're just a little do-gooder.

• ad hominem

• circular reasoning

• bandwagon

• faulty analogy