Common Fallacies

"Everyone is doing it, you should be too!" is an example of which fallacy?

• Ad Hominem

• Bandwagon

• False Cause

• Strawman

What is this an example of: "The only solutions I can see to climate change is either mass extinction of humans, or passing this green bill."

• Ad Hominem

• Appeal to Culture

• Black-and-White

• Bandwagon

Logos is...

• Appealing to the senses and feelings.

• Appealing to the audience.

• Appealing to logics by using facts and statistics.

• Appealing to logics by using ethics, likeability, trustworthiness.

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

CCSS.W.9-10.1

Pathos is...

• Appealing to your audience by use of logical arguments.

• Appealing to your audience by use of emotions.

• Appealing to your audience by use of trustworthiness.

• Appealing to your audience by use of facts and statistics.

Ethos is...

• Appealing to expert opinion, use of credibility

• Appealing to the audience through compassion and kindness.

• Appealing to emotions and senses.

• Appealing to logics, statistics and research.

Suggesting that one small event will create a series of events that will lead to a catastrophic end.

• Slippery Slope

• Logical Fallacy

• Red Herring

• Overgeneralization

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

If you don't get up early every day you will be late. The more you are late the more trouble you will get into. The more trouble you get into, you will end up losing your job and your family will starve. (This is an example of...)

• Straw Man

• Bandwagon

• Red Herring

• Slippery Slope

As a doctor, I am qualified to tell you that this course of treatment will likely help you feel better. (This is a good example of...)

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

• Fallacy

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

If we let the government implant tracking devices in criminals, it's not going to stop there! They're going to want to track us at work, our school children, and then eventually everyone!

• black and white

• slippery slope

• Ad hominem

• faulty cause and effect

Bert: I've been learning about the Second World War lately. I found that America provoked Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor. I don't think that was the right thing to do.

Jenny: Oh, so you are now taking the side of Axis? Do you think Germany and Japan were right to do what they did?

• faulty cause and effect

• strawman

• ad hominem

• non sequitur

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1