Logical Appeals & Fallacies

That restaurant is popular because everyone in town goes there.

• overgeneralization
• hasty generalization
• attack the man
• circular reasoning

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

You can't give me a C! I'm an A student, a C is just wrong!

• False Causality

• Slippery Slope

• Over Generalization

• Circular Reasoning

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

We should stop using hairspray because it is snowing in New York.

• hasty generalization

• non sequitur

• ad hominem

• moral equivalence

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

a conclusion that does not clearly support the claim

• non-sequitur
• false analogy
• ad hominem
• either/or reasoning

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

lacks the support necessary to be inductive reasoning

• begging the question
• oversimplification
• hasty generalization
• false analogy

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

restates the argument rather than actually proving it

• ad hominem
• begging the question
•  circular reasoning
• hasty generalization

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

For something to be subjective means

• it's shaped by personal bias

• It's actually objective

• it's based on a particular subject matter

Something that is objective is

• filled with personal opinion

• free of personal opinion; a fact

A logical fallacy is

• when you mistake one train of thought for another

• A mistake when using evidence

• A mistake in reasoning that makes an argument less effective

A preference that often detracts from a person's ability to be objective.

• bias

• logical fallacy

• first person

• bandwagon