Logical Fallacies

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

• Hasty Generalization
• Straw Man
• Bandwagon Appeal
• Appeal to False Authority

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

I guess I should buy my 12-year-old daughter an iPhone. Everyone at her new school has one and I want her to fit in with the other kids.

• Appeal to False Authority

• Either/ Or

• Bandwagon

• Slippery Slope

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

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

• Hasty Generalization

• Faulty Causality

• Straw Man

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

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

• Ad Hominem

• Scare Tactic

• Hasty Generalization

• Sentimental Appeal

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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.

• Scare Tactic

• Slippery Slope

• Hasty Generalization

• Faulty Causality

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.7.1

An ad hominem attack

• is a very effective debate strategy
• goes after a person's argument.
• is always against a popular idea.
• is an attack on the person, not the argument 

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"The mind is like a knife, cutting through difficult problems. But just as too much cutting dulls a knife, so too much education dulls the mind."

• False dilemma

• False analogy

• Equivocation

• Circular reasoning

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CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"The two courses I took at UF were not very interesting. I don't think its a good university."

• Ciruclar reasoning

• Ad hominem

• Hasty generalization

• False dilemma

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

A driver with a New York license plate cuts you off in traffic. You decide that all New York drivers are terrible drivers.

• hasty generalization

• either-or fallacy

• false cause and effect

• stereotyping

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Kids: If you wouldn't eat your dog, why eat a turkey? Go vegan.

• Faulty Analogy
• False Dilemma
• Ad Hominem
• Circular Reasoning

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1