Logical Fallacies

My grandmother ate 10 cloves of raw garlic every day. Not surprisingly, she lived to be 102.

• To Quoquo

• Hasty Generalization

• Middle Ground

• Ad Hominem

If you don’t say the Pledge of Allegiance, then you must be a traitor.

• Special Pleading

• Middle Ground

• Straw Man

• Black and White

Every time I wash my car, it rains the next day. My car washing definitely affects the weather.

• Hasty Generalization

• Straw Man

• Special Pleading

• Slippery Slope

Charlie: I think we should put more money into schools. Quality public education is so important.

Bob: So you’re saying we should cut military spending and spend it instead on more spiral notebooks and crayons? I guess you want our country to be a weak, defenseless target for terrorists.

• Ad Hominem

• Black and White

• Straw Man

• Middle Ground

I’m raising funds to help cure XYZ disease. If you don’t donate, then you’re part of the problem.

• Tu Quoquo

• Black and White

• Strawman

• Texas Sharpshooter

If I don’t take this A.P. class, then I won’t do well on the exam. If I don’t do well on the A.P. exam, then I can’t get into a good college. If I can’t get into a good college, then I’ll never get a good job. If I can’t get a good job, then I’m going to have to live in my parents’ basement forever. Guess I’ll sign up for the A.P. class.

• Slippery Slope

• Texas Sharpshooter

• Middle Ground

• Personal Incredulity

Oh, please. What would you know about labor laws? You don’t even have a job.

• Texas Sharpshooter

• Slippery Slope

• Ad Hominem

• Personal incredulity

My opponent raises a good point, but can we really trust him? I mean, he moved to this town only two years ago and everyone knows that his wife left him.

• Slippery Slope

• Sentimental Appeal

• Bandwagon

• Ad Hominem

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Scientist: Evolution explains how animals developed, adapted and diversified over millions of years.

Opponent: If we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys? And why don't we have three arms? Wouldn't that give me a competitive advantage?

What kind of a logical fallacy is this?

• Bandwagon

• straw Man

• appeal to authority

• black/white

Politician: Taxes are too hard to understand. The government must be tricking us and taking our money. We need to simplify our taxes!

• straw man

• personal incredulity

• tu quo quo

• texas sharpshooter