Logical Fallacies #1

Attacking the individual instead of the argument is...

• Cause and Effect
• Slippery Slope
• Ad Hominem
• Circular Argument

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When the rooster crows, the sun rises. Therefore, the rooster causes the sun to rise.

Which logical fallacy is this?

• False cause / cause and effect

• Hasty generalization

• Red Herring

• Appeal to authority

Introducing a topic not related to the subject at hand.

Which logical fallacy is this?

• Strawman

• Circular argument

• Red Herring

• Cause and effect

Example of a strawman fallacy is...

• The government doesn't take care of the poor because it doesn't have a tax specifically to support the poor.

• I figured you couldn't possibly get it right, so I ignored your comment.

• You presented a circular argument in which the conclusion was included in the premise.

• You misrepresented someone's argument to make it easier to attack.

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An argument from small numbers, statistics of small numbers, insufficient statistics, argument by taking sweeping sample, hasty induction, insufficient evidence.

• Slippery slope

• Ad hominem

• Hasty generalization

• Cause and Effect

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You are so stupid your argument couldn't possibly be true.

• Appeal to tradition
• Cause and effect
• Hasty generalization
• Ad hominem

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You asked a question that had an assumption built into it so that it couldn't be answered without appearing guilty.

• False cause
• Loaded question
• Ad hominem
• Slippery slope

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A type of reasoning used when you attempt to make an argument by beginning with an assumption that what you are trying to prove is already true.

• Burden of proof

• Appeal to authority

• Circular argument

• Red Herring

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A Red Herring refers to ...

• A kind of fallacy that is an irrelevant topic introduced in an argument to divert the attention of listeners or readers from the original issue.
• A relationship to a cause because the events occurred together.
• Attacking the individual instead of the argument.
• An idea or course of action which will lead to something unacceptable, wrong, or disastrous.

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In logic, critical thinking, political rhetoric, and caselaw, is a consequentialist logical device in which a party asserts that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant (usually negative) effect.

• Cause and effect

• Slippery Slope

• Burden of Proof

• Red Herring

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