Logical Fallacies and Rhetoric

What is a logical fallacy?

• When someone cheats on someone else.

• When someone bases an argument off of faulty reasoning.

• When someone wins an argument because they had good reasons.

• When someone loses an argument because they had bad reasons.

"The veterinarian says that an Australian shepherd will be the perfect match for our active lifestyle."

• logos
• ethos
• pathos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

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People either like coffee or hate it.

• Non sequitur

• Either/Or

• Oversimplification

• Hasty Generalization

Smoking cigarettes is just like ingesting arsenic into your system; both have been shown to be causally related to death. If you wouldn't want to take a spoonful of arsenic, I would think that you wouldn't want to continue smoking.

• Hasty Generalization

• False Analogy

• Overgeneralization

• Non sequitur

President Reagan was a great communicator because he had the knack of talking effectively to the people.

• Bandwagon Appeal
• Ad Hominem 
• Circular Reasoning
• Hasty Generalization

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

A driver with a New York license plate cuts you off in traffic. You decide that all New York drivers are terrible drivers.

• Hasty Generalization

• Either/Or Fallacy

• False Cause

• Stereotyping

She's wearing red shoes. Her favorite color must be red.

• Name Calling

• Overgeneralization

• Non Sequitur

• Oversimplification

• Ethos
• Logos
• Pathos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

• Pathos
• Ethos
• Logos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

A writer's or speaker's statement on a position or issue

• fact
• fallacy
• bias 
• claim