Logic Fallicies

Grizzly bears can't be dangerous! They're too cute.

• Hasty Generalization

• Red Herring

• Strawman

• Personal Attack

Senator Ribbit is a liar. You shouldn't listen to him on anything.

• Circular Reasoning

• Personal Attack

• Slippery Slope

• Red Herring

Southerners talk fast. I was just on the phone with one, and I could barely keep up!

• Limited Choice

• Circular Reasoning

• Hasty Generalization

• Appeal to Ignorance

Politician Running for Public Office: You can all trust what I say. I have never lied in my life.

• Strawman

• False Cause

• Circular Reasoning

• Limited Choice

There's no point listening to you. Everybody knows you're just a little do-gooder.

• Personal Attack

• Circular Reasoning

• Appeal to Popularity

• False Cause

Interviewer: What do you think should be done about people who swear in public?

Man on the Street: I think it should be against the law.

Interviewer: Oh, I suppose you're against the right to free speech, then?

• Personal Attack

• Red Herring

• Strawman

• Appeal to Emotion

OJ Simpson couldn't have murdered his wife. He's in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He's famous!

• False Cause

• Circular Reasoning

• Red Herring

• Appeal to Emotion

Farmer McDonald: Ever since they put up that new power plant across the river, we haven't had a bit of rain. I'm tellin' you, mankind has got too big for its britches when it fiddles around with nature.

• Appeal to Ignorance

• Limited Choice

• False Cause

• Hasty Generalization

Let’s go buy the iPhone X in spite of the $999 price tag--all of our friends have one already!

• Appeal to Popularity

• Hasty Generalization

• Personal Attack

After I listened to the first song of my favorite musician’s new vinyl record, I knew I’d hate the entire record, so I converted it into a Frisbee.

• Hasty Generalization

• False Cause

• Personal Attack