Logical Fallacies Pre-Test

Person 1: Bicycle infrastructure should be expanded because cycling is a sustainable mode of transportation. 
Person 2: We should not build bike lanes because cyclists run red lights and endanger pedestrians.

• Circular Reasoning
• Either/Or
• Hasty Generalization
• Straw Man

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Joan is scratched by a cat while visiting her friend. Two days later she comes down with a fever. Joan concludes that the cat's scratch must be the cause of her illness.

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter hoc
• Appeal to False Authority
• Bandwagon appeal
• Faulty Analogy

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

You should never gamble. Once you start gambling you find it hard to stop. Soon you are spending all your money on gambling, and eventually you will turn to crime to support your earnings.

• Non Sequitur 
• Slippery Slope
• Circular Reasoning
• Card Stacking

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

"I had a bad teacher once; therefore, all teachers must be bad."

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

• ad hominem

• Straw Man

• Hasty Generalization

Either you love bacon, or you're wrong.

• Hasty Generalization
• Post Hoc
• Bandwagon Appeals
• False Dilemma

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that as the face of our next president? 

• Cherry Picking
• Hasty Generalization
• Post Hoc
• Ad Hominem

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

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

• Ad hominem

• Straw Man

• Slippery Slope

• False Dilemma

Joan is scratched by a cat while visiting her friend. Two days later she comes down with a fever. Joan concludes that the cat's scratch must be the cause of her illness.

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter hoc
• Appeal to False Authority
• Bandwagon appeal
• Faulty Analogy

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

You should never gamble. Once you start gambling you find it hard to stop. Soon you are spending all your money on gambling, and eventually you will turn to crime to support your earnings.

• False dilemma

• Slippery Slope

• Straw Man

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

Unless you can close your eyes to abuse, write a check to save this puppy.

• ad hominem

• hasty generalization

• false dilemma

• slippery slope