Types of Fallacy

1. Everyone wants to get married someday. A good self-concept is important in attracting a husband or wife. Therefore, everyone should develop a good self-concept.

• FAULTY LOGIC

• UNSUPPORTED FACT

• EMOTIONAL APPEAL

2. Students who take physics instead of earth science are studious and hardworking.

• FAULTY LOGIC

• UNSUPPORTED FACT

• EMOTIONAL APPEAL

3. "Science shows that the Earth is billions of years old!"

• FAULTY LOGIC

• UNSUPPORTED FACT

• EMOTIONAL APPEAL

4. A candidate for election went to places affected by typhoon. He saw many people crying because of losing their loved ones. He spoke in front of them and said, “When I become a mayor of this town, no one of you will suffer again!”

• FAULTY LOGIC

• UNSUPPORTED FACT

• EMOTIONAL APPEAL

5. I met a little boy with cancer who lived just 20 miles from a power line who looked into my eyes and said, in his weak voice, “Please do whatever you can so that other kids won‘t have to go through what I am going through.”

• FAULTY LOGIC

• UNSUPPORTED FACT

• EMOTIONAL APPEAL