Logical Fallacy Practice

If you don't study, you'll fail your test. Then you will do poorly in the class and you GPA will fall. You won't get into a good college, so you'll never get a decent job and you'll end up poor and homeless.

• Slippery Slope
• Circular Reasoning
• False Dilemma
• Appeal to Pity

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I met a tall man who loved to eat cheese. Now I believe that all tall people like cheese.

• Ad Hominem
• Hasty Generalization
• Bandwagon

• Appeal to Irrelevant Authority

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After Will said that we should put more money into health and education, Warren responded by saying that he was surprised that Will hates our country so much that he wants to leave it defenseless by cutting military spending.

• ad hominem
• red herring
• straw man
• Appeal to Pity

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"Chick fil A is the greatest food chain in existence. Look at the crowds!"

• Slippery Slope

• Bandwagon

• False Cause and Effect

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We should abolish the death penalty. Even Taylor Swift is opposed to it.

• Hasty Generalization

• Bandwagon

• Straw Man

• Appeal to Authority

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Look, you are going to have to make up your mind. Either you decide that you can afford this stereo, or you decide you are going to do without music for a while.

• False Dichotomy

• Slippery Slope

• Weak Analogy

• Post Hoc - False Cause and Effect

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Why should we put people on trial when we know they are guilty?

• Begging the Question

• Post Hoc

• Straw Man

• Hasty Generalization

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

• Post Hoc

• Hasty Generalization

• Red Herring

• Begging the Question

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Luke didn't want to eat his vegetables, but his father told him to think about the poor, starving children in a third world country who don't have anything to eat.

• Hasty generalization

• Appeal to emotion

• Post hoc

• Ad populum

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Doctors refer to medical books all the time when they are treating patients. In the same way, I should be allowed to use a text book in my medical exam.

• False analogy, faulty comparison

• Straw man

• Red herring

• Begging the question

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