
Logical Fallacies
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English
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9th - 12th Grade
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Medium
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James Hatch
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
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
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
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
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
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
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
If you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
Slippery Slope
Either/or
Ad hominem
Moral equivalence
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
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
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
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
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
America is the best place to live, because it's better than any other country.
ad hominem
red herring
circular logic
straw man
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.1
CCSS.RI.11-12.2
CCSS.RI.11-12.5
CCSS.RI.11-12.6
CCSS.W.11-12.1
CCSS.W.11-12.1B
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