Love is a fallacy logical fallacies

What is a logical fallacy?

• An argument with a premise and a conclusion

• An argument that contains a non-statement

• An argument that contains mistake in reasoning

Drawing a conclusion based on a small sample size; a broad claim based on limited evidence.

• hasty generalization

• false analogy

Southerners talk fast. I was just on the phone with one, and I could barely keep up!

• dicto simpliciter

• poisoning the well

• hasty generalization

• post hoc

Farmer McDonald: Ever since they put up that new power plant across the river, we haven't had a bit of rain. I'm tellin' you, mankind has got too big for its britches when it fiddles around with nature.

• faulty analogy

• ad misericordiam

• Post hoc

• hasty generalization

A driver with a New York license plate cuts you off in traffic. You decide that all New York drivers are terrible drivers.

• hasty generalization

• either-or fallacy

• post hoc

• dicto simpliciter

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

• Post Hoc

• Hasty Generalization

• dicto simpliciter

• ad misericordiam

____ is an error in reasoning.

• Propaganda
• Bias
• Logical Fallacy
• Argument

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Logical fallacies strengthen an argument

• True
• False

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"The last time the Saints were in the Superbowl was after Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina must have caused them to win the Super Bowl."

This is an example of ____.

• poisoning the well

• hypothesis contrary to the fact

• dicot simpliciter

• Post Hoc

"Before turning the floor over to my opponent, I ask you to remember that those who oppose my plans do not have the best interest of the university at heart." This is an example of ...

• hasty generalization

• false analogy

• poisoning the well

• dicto simpliciter