Logical Fallacy Practice

McDonald's Hamburgers, over 99 billion served.

• Post Hoc

• False Analogy

• Red Herring

• Bandwagon

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Why is this a logical fallacy? "All elephants are big. Some boys are big. Therefore some boys are elephants."

• It says A is true and B is true so A+B must be true.
• It oversimplifies.
• It only gives two choices to a larger problem.
• It says the two things always happen together.

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

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.

• Hasty Generalization

• false dilemma

• Bandwagon

• Slippery Slope

All this time that you're telling me to improve, you're being lazy yourself.

• ad hominem

• red herring

• tu quoque

• hasty generalization

Helga: You should not be eating that... it has been scientifically proven that eating fat burgers are no good for your health.

Hugh: You eat fat burgers all the time so that can’t be true.

• Ad Hominem

• Slippery Slope

• Tu Quoque

• False Dilemma

Either you decide that you can afford this stereo, or decide not to have music for a while

• red herring

• slippery slope

• false dilemma

• hasty generalization

Select the fallacy being used.

• bandwagon

• false dilemma

• hasty generalization

• slippery slope

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.

• Hasty Generalization

• Slippery Slope

• Ad Hominem

• Red Herring

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.

• Red Herring

• Slippery Slope

• Hasty Generalization

• Bandwagon

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

• Ad Hominem

• False Dilemma

• Hasty Generalization

• Bandwagon