False Assumptions Fallacies

Jason and his family are heading to Utah to spend a week skiing. Looking at the weather reports, he notices that it is supposed to be warmer, making for lousy ski conditions. Angrily, he calls the Weather Channel and demands that they change their forecast so he will have better weather for the trip.

This is an example of what fallacy?

• False Dichotomy Fallacy

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• False Cause Fallacy

• Hasty Generalization Fallacy

“If you really loved me, you would buy me everything I ever wanted!”

This is an example of what fallacy?

• False Cause Fallacy

• Hasty Generalization Fallacy

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• False Dichotomy Fallacy

My neighbor's cat attacked me, therefore all cats are evil.

This is an example of what fallacy?

• False Cause Fallacy

• Circular Reasoning Fallacy

• Slippery Slop Fallacy

• Hasty Generalization Fallacy

If you don’t go to the party, then your friends will have fun without you. If your friends have fun without you, then they will stop inviting you to fun things. If your friends stop inviting you to fun things, you will have no social life. Therefore, if you don’t go to this party, then you will have no social life.

This is an example of what fallacy?

• False Dichotomy Fallacy

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• False Cause Fallacy

• Hasty Generalization Fallacy

Sometimes flu vaccines don’t work, therefore vaccines are useless.

This is an example of what fallacy?

• False Dichotomy Fallacy

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Hasty Generalization Fallacy

• Circular Reasoning Fallacy

I am athletic because I run, and I run because I'm athletic.

This is an example of what fallacy?

• Hasty Generalization Fallacy

• False Dichotomy Fallacy

• Circular Reasoning Fallacy

• False Cause

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who like penguins, and those who are terrible monsters.

This is an example of what fallacy?

• False Dichotomy Fallacy

• Circular Reasoning Fallacy

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Hasty Generalization Fallacy

The flu vaccine comes out every year just before the holidays, then people go and spend a lot of money. Therefore, businesses are secretly using the flu vaccine as a mind control device to increase holiday spending.

This is an example of what fallacy?

• False Cause Fallacy

• False Dichotomy Fallacy

• Circular Reasoning

• Hasty Generalization

“We must accept the traditions of the men of old time who affirm themselves to be the offspring of the gods - that is what they say - and they must surely have known their own ancestors. How can we doubt the word of the children of the gods?” - Plato, Timaeus

This is an example of what fallacy?

• Circular Reasoning Fallacy

• False Cause Fallacy

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Hasty Generalization Fallacy

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.

For want of a shoe the horse was lost.

For want of a horse the rider was lost.

For want of a rider the battle was lost.

For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.

And all for the want of a nail.

“For Want of a Nail,” medieval proverb

This is an example of what fallacy?

• Circular Reasoning Fallacy

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• False Cause Fallacy

• Hasty Generalization Fallacy