Logical Fallacies

Person 1: Bicycle infrastructure should be expanded because cycling is a sustainable mode of transportation.

Person 2: We should not build bike lanes because cyclists run red lights and endanger pedestrians.

• Band Wagon

• Either/Or

• Hasty Generalization

• Straw Man

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

• Hasty Generalization

• Straw Man

• Appeal to the Crowd

• Appeal to False Authority

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.

• Non Sequitur

• Slippery Slope

• Red herring

• Faulty analogy

All men are mortal, and Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates likes dogs.

• Ad Hominem

• Hasty Generalization

• Non Sequitur

• Straw Man

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Mike: It is morally wrong to cheat on your spouse, why on earth would you have done that?

Ken: But what is morality exactly?

Mike: It’s a code of conduct shared by cultures.

Ken: But who creates this code?...

• ad hominem

• red herring

• band wagon

• faulty analogy

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CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

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

• Cherry Picking
• Hasty Generalization
• Post Hoc
• Ad Hominem

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"Good morning! Have you gotten over the grouchy mood you were in?"

• Begging the question

• Ad hominem

• False dilemma

• False analogy

Diverts attention from the original issue by shifting to another issue/topic

• Hasty generalization

• red herring

• ad hominem/ personal attack

• appeal to logos

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

What is a fallacy that presents information that does not follow logically from a premise

• slippery slope

• non sequitur

• red herring

• either / or

This logical fallacy suggests a cause/effect relationship that doesn't exist.

• Genetic
• False Cause
• Quid Pro Quo
• Amphiboly

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CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1