Logical Fallacies Practice

I guess I should buy my 14 year old a new iPhone since everyone at her school has one.

• Ad Hominem

• Bandwagon

• Appeal to emotion

• Lies

My opponent raised a good point, but can we trust him? I mean he just moved to town only 5 months ago, how much could he really know?

• Bandwagon

• Hasty Generalization

• Slippery Slope

• Ad Hominem

My sister loves shopping, so all girls must love to shop too.

• Hasty Generalization

• Bandwagon

• Slippery Slope

• Ad Hominem

If we use one more can of hairspray this month, the ozone layer will not exist, and we will not exist!

• Bandwagon

• Slippery slope

• Ad Hominem

• Appeal to Authority

You should never gamble! Once you start gambling you find it hard to stop. Soon you will spend all your money on gambling, and eventually you will turn to crime just to support your gambling addiction.

• Bandwagon

• Appeal to Authority

• Hasty Generalization

• Slippery Slope

Dr. McKenzie said all kids can fly, so it must be true!

• Appeal to authority

• slippery slope

• Bandwagon

• Ad Hominem

They cannot take her to jail even if she did rob the bank and take millions of pesos… She is already too old and weak to be locked up.

• Slippery Slope

• Ad Hominem

• Appeal to Emotion

• Bandwagon

Trying to convince others that everyone is doing it or everyone feels this way so they should too.

• Appeal to Emotion

• Bandwagon

• Slippery Slope

• Appeal to Authority

An argument that leads to a series of worse things.

• Ad Hominem

• Bandwagon

• Appeal to Authority

• Slippery Slope

An attack of a person’s character, rather than the facts.

• Slippery Slope

• Bandwagon

• Ad Hominem

• Appeal to Authority