Logical Fallacies

What is information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view?

• Propaganda

• Rhetoric

• Logical Fallacy

• Literature

What is is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning, or "wrong moves" in the construction of an argument.

• Propaganda

• Logical Fallacy

• Rhetoric

• Literature

What fallacy involves something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question.

• Circular Argument

• Bandwagon

• Name Calling

• Red Herring

What fallacy involves the attempt to persuade the reader by using a famous person to endorse a product or idea?

• Bandwagon

• Testimony

• Repetition

• Red Herring

What fallacy involves making an oversimplified statement about a group based on limited information?

• Sweeping Generalization

• Circular Argument

• Bandwagon

• Name Calling

What fallacy involves trying to persuade the reader by using words that appeal to the reader’s emotions instead of to logic or reason?

• Circular Argument

• Name Calling

• Red Herring

• Emotional Appeal

What fallacious argument that concludes that a proposition must be true because many or most people believe it? This fallacy is often concisely encapsulated as: "If many believe so, it is so".

• Testimony

• Bandwagon

• Emotional Appeal

• Circular Argument

What logical fallacy involves the attempt to persuade the reader by repeating a message over and over again?

• Bandwagon

• Repetition

• Circular Argument

• Sweeping Generalization

What fallacy states a conclusion as part of the proof of the argument?

• Repetition

• Sweeping Generalization

• Emotional Appeal

• Circular Argument

What fallacy involves attacking a person instead of an argument?

• Red Herring

• Name Calling

• Emotional Appeal

• Sweeping Generalization