Week 7 : Short Quiz (Fallacy)

Our house was burglarized right after the new family moved in next door

• Faulty Logic

• Unssuported Facts

• Emotional Appeal

There must be objective rights and wrongs in the universe. If not, how can you possibly say that torturing babies for fun could ever be right?

• Faulty Logic

• Unsupported Facts

• Emotional Appeal

I love that movie we saw last night with Brad Pitt. I am going to rent all of his movies, and I am sure I will like all of them.

• Faulty Logic

• Unsupported Facts

• Emotional Appeal

Her new boyfriend drives an old car. He must be poor.

• Faulty Logic

• Unsupported Facts

• Emotional Appeal

All STIHS students are from Calauan. Ronan is not aan STIHS student, therefore, he is not from Calauan.

• Faulty Logic

• Unsupported Claim

• Emotional Appeal

Power lines cause cancer. 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.” I urge you to vote for this bill to tear down all power lines and replace them with monkeys on treadmills.

• Faulty Logic

• Unsupported Claim

• Emotional Appeal

Hospitals are full of sick people. Therefore hospitals make people sick.

• Faulty Logic

• Unsupported Facts

• Eotional Appeal

He is the thief. My instincts tell me he is!

• Faulty Logic

• Unsupported Facts

• Emotional Appeal

Things go better with Coke.

• Faulty Logic

• Unsupported Facts

• Emotional Appeal

That lady had a rough day today. She woke up late, she was not able to eat breakfast, she missed the train and was late for work. My heart aches for this poor lady.

• Faulty Logic

• Unsupported Facts

• Emotional Appeal