Logical Fallacy

After Will said that we should put more money into health and education, Warren responded by saying that he was surprised that Will hates our country so much that he wants to leave it defenseless by cutting military spending.

• ad hominem

• red herring

• straw man

• Post hoc ergo proctor hoc

Billy - "An apple is a vegetable."  Bobby - "Don't listen to Billy; he failed Spanish class last year. "

• ad hominem
• either/or
• red herring
• bandwagon appeal

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If you don't study, you'll fail your test. Then you will do poorly in the class and your GPA will fall. You won't get into a good college, so you'll never get a decent job and you'll end up homeless.

• bandwagon appeal

• false analogy

• slippery slope

• Slanting

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This image illustrates which rhetorical appeal?

• ethos
• pathos
• logos

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I understand you want to know what happened at the embassy. What is really important is to talk about whether the government has enough cash flow to stay open through the month.

• slippery slope

• straw man

• red herring

• false dichotomy

speaker presents two extreme options as the only possible choices

• straw man
• either/or
• false analogy
• hasty generalization

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a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an idea

• straw man

• ad populum

• post hoc

• red herring

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Cari says that we need a major overhaul in education. Cari gets a speeding ticket every other week, so maybe she should learn how to drive instead of worrying about schools.

• appeal to false authority
• ad hominem
• false analogy
• hasty generalization

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Consider the following exchange:

Lindsey: I think capital punishment is a necessary component of our justice system and should remain legal.

Kayla: So you are saying that murder should be legal and it is okay for us to go around killing people just because we think they deserve it? That isn't right.

Of what fallacy is Kayla guilty?

• Ad Hominem

• Strawman

• Slippery Slope

• Hasty generalization

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Bodybuilding is so tough that it's so difficult to keep your macros balanced, the testosterone level in your body matters. You have to intake the proper amount of amino acids to heal muscles and avoid unnecessary exercises to

prevent muscle skewness. But I can train you well if you come to me.

• alphabet soup

• false dichotomy

• bandwagon

• ad populum

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