Logical Fallacies

What's the problem? All my friends have a curfew of midnight!

• Bandwagon

• Faulty analogy

• Hasty generalization

• Ad hominem

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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 person who is honest will not steal, so my client, an honest person, clearly is not guilty of theft.

• Faulty analogy

• Ad hominem

• Circular reasoning

• Post hoc ergo propter hoc

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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

Her economic plan is impressive, but remember: this is a woman who spent six weeks in the Betty Ford Center getting treatment for alcoholism.

• Red herring

• Post hoc ergo propter hoc

• False dilemma

• Ad hominem

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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

Since Mayor Perry has been in office, our city has had a balanced budget; if he were governor, the state budget would finally be balanced.

• Bandwagon

• Faulty analogy

• Circular reasoning

• Ad hominem

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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

If we outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns.

• Bandwagon

• Either/or

• Circular reasoning

• 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

Smoking is dangerous because it is harmful to your health.

• Circular reasoning

• False dilemma

• Post hoc ergo propter hoc

• Red herring

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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

He was last year's MVP, and he drives a Volvo. That must be a great car.

• Appeal to false authority

• Hasty Generalization

• 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

A national study of grades 6-8 showed that test scores went down last year and absenteeism was high; this generation is going to the dogs.

• Either/or

• Ad hominem

• Hasty generalization

• Red herring

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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

We elected Johnson as president and look where it got us: hurricanes, floods, stock market crashes.

• Post hoc ergo propter hoc

• Appeal to false authority

• Ad populum

• False dilemma