(Not Graded) Fallacy Practice

There's no point in listening to your opinion on school lunches. Everybody knows you cheat on your math tests.

• ad hominem

• strawman

• weak analogy

• appeal to ignorance

I am voting for Smith in the election because the rest of my family is.

• Hasty Generalization

• Bandwagon

• Appeal to Authority

• Non-Sequitur

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.

• Non Sequitur

• Slippery Slope

• Straw Man

• Ad Hominem

You visit a new country and the first person you meet at the airport is rude. You send a message to a friend back home that everyone in this new country is rude.

• hasty generalization

• weak analogy

• false causality

• appeal to pity

We should abolish the death penalty. Even Taylor Swift is opposed to it.

• Hasty Generalization

• Bandwagon

• Straw Man

• Appeal to Authority

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CCSS.RI.9-10.8

My opponent is an untrustworthy liar and an idiot. Therefore, you should believe me.

• Straw Man

• Non Sequitur

• Weak Analogy

• Ad Hominem

After Will said that we should put more money into health and education, Warren responded by saying that he was surprised that Will hates our country so much that he wants to leave it defenseless by cutting military spending.

• ad hominem

• weak analogy

• straw man

• appeal to pity

Water fluoridation affects the brain. Citywide, student’s test scores began to drop five months after fluoridation began.

• False Causality

• Hasty Generalization

• Slippery Slope

• Non Sequitur

Luke didn't want to eat his vegetables, but his father told him to think about the poor, starving children in a third world country who don't have anything to eat.

• Hasty generalization

• Appeal to pity

• False Causality

• Ad Hominem

If you don't study, you'll fail your test. Then you will do poorly in the class and your GPA will fall. You won't get into a good college, so you'll never get a decent job and you'll end up homeless.

• bandwagon

• non sequitur

• slippery slope

• false causality