Logical Fallacies

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

• ad populum

• circular reasoning

• hasty generalization

• ad hominem

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 against America? You support the Axis countries of Germany and Japan? You are on the side of Hitler!

• post hoc ergo propter hoc

• strawman

• ad hominem

• circular argument

You can buy the new Sensitivity perfume, or you can smell bad all day.

• post hoc ergo propter hoc

• either/or

• hasty generalization

• strawman

Farmer McDonald: Ever since they put up that new power plant across the river, we haven't had a bit of rain. That power plant has caused the rain to stop. I'm tellin' you, mankind has got too big for its britches when it fiddles around with nature.

• circular argument

• strawman

• post hoc ergo propter hoc

• hasty generalization

Howie is not a vegetarian and eats meat. He is as bad as people who abuse their pets.

• circular argument

• moral equivalence

• ad hominem

• either/or

McDonald's Hamburgers: over 99 billion served.

This is an American classic so good Americans eat at McDonald's. Do you want to be a good American? You should eat there, too.

• Ad hominem

• Hasty generalization

• Ad populum

• Circular argument

Gina shouldn't be treasurer for our club. She failed Spanish two years ago.

• hasty generalization

• strawman

• ad hominem

• moral equivalence