Logical Fallacies etc

My opponent raises a good point, but can we really trust him? I mean, he moved to this town only two years ago and everyone knows that his wife left him.

• Straw Man

• Red Herring

• False Dilema

• AD Hominem

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My grandmother ate 10 cloves of raw garlic every day. Not surprisingly, she lived to be 102.

• Faulty Analogy

• straw man

• Bandwagon

• Post Hoc

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I guess I should buy my 12-year-old daughter an iPhone. Everyone at her new school has one and I want her to fit in with the other kids.

• Ad Hominem

• Bandwagon

• Post Hoc

• Red Herring

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Many women claim that they want to live in a peaceful world, but we must remember that there were no nuclear weapons before women were given the right to vote.

• Begging the question

• Faulty Analogy

• Begging the question

• Appeals to false Authority

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My opponent raises a good point, but can we really trust him? I mean, he moved to this town only two years ago and everyone knows that his wife left him.

• Red Herring

• False Dilemma

• Post Hoc

• Ad Hominem

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“The rooster crows always before the sun rises, therefore the crowing rooster causes the sun to rise.”

• Bandwagon

• Red Herring

• Ad Hominem

• Post Hoc

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Oh, please. What would you know about labor laws? You don’t even have a job.

• Hasty Generalization

• Begging the Question

• Ad Hominem

• Bandwagon

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We think this new MallTime game app will be a success because all little girls like shopping.

• Hasty Generalization

• Red Herring

• Straw Man

• Faulty Analogy

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Charlie: Illegal posting and sharing of songs online are crippling the music industry.

Bob: You couldn’t be more wrong; the music industry is doing just fine. I can’t believe you think the government should be allowed to regulate what I share with my “friends.” No one wants a world where I can’t loan a book to my girlfriend, let my roommate borrow my iPod, or share a funny meme with my blog followers.

• Bandwagon

• Red Herring

• Straw Man

• Post Hoc

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“I sneezed exactly at the same time the power went off. My sneeze must’ve done something to make the power go off. “

• Post Hoc

• Red Herring

• Appeals to False Authority

• Hasty Generalization

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