Logical Fallacies

Kids: If you wouldn't eat your dog, why eat a turkey? Go vegan.

• Faulty Analogy

• Slippery Slope

• Ad Hominem

• Circular Reasoning

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

• Faulty Analogy

• Straw Man

• No Causation

• Ad Hominem

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

• Ad hominem

• Faulty Analogy

• Begging the Claim

• Slippery Slope

I am voting for Smith for President because the rest of my family is voting for him.

• Slippery Slope

• Straw Man

• Bandwagon Appeal

• False Analogy

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.

• Straw Man

• Slippery Slope

• Circular Reasoning

• Bandwagon

An argument that assumes the truth of what it is trying to prove.

• hasty generalization

• circular reasoning

• straw man argument

• ad hominem

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

An argument that appeals to popular opinion as the basis for its truth.

• ad hominem

• circular reasoning

• straw man

• bandwagon fallacy

An argument based on a personal attack on someone's character.

• appeal to nature

• ad hominem

• non sequitur

• bandwagon fallacy

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Substituting a person's actual position with a misrepresented (and usually weaker) version of their argument.

• straw man argument

• ad hominem

• circular reasoning

• bandwagon

The conclusions that one thing caused another simply because one happened before the other.

• begging the claim

• false causation

• circular reasoning

• slippery slope