Logical Fallacy Practice

McDonald's Hamburgers, over 99 billion served.

• Faulty Causality

• Either/Or

• Straw Man

• Bandwagon

Michael Jordan, battery ad.

• Bandwagon

• Sentimental Appeal

• Ad Hominem

• False Authority

Either you love bacon, or you're wrong.

• Hasty Generalization

• Faulty Causality

• Bandwagon Appeals

• Either/Or

Joan is scratched by a cat while visiting her friend. Two days later she comes down with a fever. Joan concludes that the cat's scratch must be the cause of her illness.

• Faulty Causality

• Appeal to False Authority

• Bandwagon

• Sentimental Appeal

I am voting for Smith for President because the rest of my family is voting for him.

• Hasty Generalization

• Straw Man

• Bandwagon

• Appeal to False Authority

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.

• Either/or

• Slippery Slope

• Scare Tactics

• Hasty Generalization

I saw Ashton Kutcher in a prescription drug commercial, therefore it has to be an effective drug.

• Faulty Causality

• Hasty Generalization

• Either/Or

• Appeal to False Authority

Unless you can close your eyes to abuse, write a check to save this puppy.

• ad hominem
• hasty generalization
• either-or fallacy
• slippery slope

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

People from big cities are not as friendly as those from small towns.

• ad hominem
• either-or fallacy
• hasty generalization
• slippery slope

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

He can't be a great athlete; he cheated on his wife.

• ad hominem
• bandwagon appeal
• either-or fallacy
• 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