Logical Fallacies

“Your coach’s policy is that no one can be a starter on game day if they miss practice. So, if you miss basketball practice today, you won’t be a starter in Friday’s game. Then you won’t be the first freshman to start on the Varsity basketball team at our school.”

• Strawman

• False Dilemma

• Ad Hominem

• Appeal to ignorance

• No Fallacy

I know nothing about Tank Johnson except that he has a criminal record as long as your leg, but I’ll bet he’s really just misunderstood

• Appeal to ignorance

• Strawman

• Slippery Slope

• Ad Hominem

• False Dilemma

Either we go to war, or we appear weak

• Appeal to ignorance

• Starwman

• False Dilemma

• Ad Hominem

• Slippery Slope

We have no evidence that the Illuminati ever existed. They must have been so clever they destroyed all the evidence

• Strawman

• False Dilemma

• appeal to ignorance

• Ad hominem

• Slippery Slope

The Senator thinks we can solve all our ecological problems by driving a Prius

Quite the contrary, the Senator thinks the environment is such a wreck that no one’s car choice or driving habits would make the slightest difference

• False Dilemma

• Strawman

• Ad Hominem

• Slippery Slope

• Appeal to Ignorance

Cardenas roots for a British football team. Clearly he’s unfit to be a chef at the new restaurant

• False Dilemma

• Ad Hominem

• Strawman

• Appeal to ignorance

• Slippery Slope

Either you love me, or you hate me.

• Strawman

• Ad hominem

• Slippery Slope

• False Dilemma

• Appeal to ignorance

All people from Pinole are liars

• Starwman

• False Dilema

• Appeal to ignorance

• Slippery Slope

• Ad Hominem

“If America doesn’t send weapons to the Syrian rebels, they won’t be able to defend themselves against their warring dictator. They’ll lose their civil war, and that dictator will oppress them, and the Soviets will consequently carve out a sphere of influence that spreads across the entire Middle East.

• Slippery Slope

• Strawman

• ad Hominem

• False Dilemma