English 2 Practice: Logical Fallacies

You should eat at McDonald's because they have served over 9.9 billion.

• Post Hoc

• False Analogy

• Red Herring

• Bandwagon

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Either you love bacon, or you're wrong.

• Hasty Generalization

• Post Hoc

• Bandwagon

• False Dilemma

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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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Joan is scratched by a cat while visiting her friend. Two days later she comes down with a fever. Joan concludes that the cat's scratch must be the cause of her illness.

• Post Hoc

• This is a logical argument and contains no fallacy.

• Bandwagon

• 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

• Bandwagon

• False Authority

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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.

• False Dilemma

• Slippery Slope

• This is a logical argument and contains no fallacy.

• Post Hoc

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If you don't donate money to the Humane Society, you are saying you are okay with animal abuse.

• Ad Hominem

• Hasty Generalization

• False Dilemma

• This is a logical argument and contains no fallacy.

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People from big cities are not as friendly as those from small towns.

• Ad Hominem

• False Dilemma

• Hasty Generalization

• Slippery Slope

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Person 1: We should stop eating junk food because it is unhealthy.

Person 2: You just don't want us to eat junk food because you don't want us to have fun.

• Slippery Slope

• This is a logical argument and contains no fallacy.

• Hasty Generalization

• Straw Man

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Labor unions in America are just as bad as Russia under Stalin!

• Bandwagon Appeal

• Ad Hominem

• Moral Equivalence

• Hasty Generalization

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