Logical Fallacies

Mom: You used up all of the data on our phone plan this month!

Kid: I had a math test today that was really, really hard. Can you just forgive me this one time?

• Red Herring

• Ad Hominem

• Strawman

• Slippery Slope

Allowing overnight guests in the dorm rooms will lead to nothing but trouble: promiscuity, teen pregnancy, and eventually, a bunch of unwed mothers on campus, trying to complete their degrees while raising a child.

• Slippery Slope

• Bandwagon

• Either/or

• Red Herring

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On the basis of experience with three members of an ethnic group, Sweta decides that all members of the group must share the exact same characteristics.

• Ad Hominem

• Hasty Generalization

• Straw Man

• Paralipsis

If you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

• Slippery Slope

• Either/or

• Ad hominem

• Moral equivalence

First, the government wants to ban us from using assault rifles. Then, it limits the number of handguns we can buy. Soon they'll try to take away all of our guns.

• Post Hoc, ergo propter hoc

• Straw Man

• Slippery Slope

• Red Herring

Every time that rooster crows, the sun comes up. The rooster must control the sun.

• Post hoc, ergo propter hoc

• Ad Hominem

• Circular logic

• Slippery Slope

America is the best place to live, because it's better than any other country.

• ad hominem

• red herring

• circular logic

• straw man

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Trans fats are as bad as biological weapons.

• either/or (black/white) (binary)

• non sequitur

• ad hominem

• moral equivalence

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The news is fake because so much of the news is fake.

• ad hominem

• moral equivalence

• non sequitur

• circular reasoning

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My opponent raises a good point, but can we really trust him? I mean, he moved to this town only two years ago and everyone knows that his wife left him.

• Slippery Slope

• Post hoc ergo propter hoc

• Red herring

• Ad Hominem