Fallacies

I would have voted for the man who ran for Congress, but he is just a nicely dressed hillbilly hick with no clue on how to solve the nation's big budget problems.

• Ad Hominem

• Red Herring

• Appeal to Ignorance

• Circular Argument

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

People who like science and math are all basically nerds that never leave their office, wear thick glasses, and laugh at goofy jokes.

• Red Herring

• Hasty Generalization

• Circular Argument

• Strawman Argument

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CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

If she doesn't wear her seatbelt while she drives over to the gym, she will cause an accident, people might die, cars may burst into flames, and we could burn down the new dome!

• Ad Hominem

• Red Herring

• Slippery Slope

• Appeal to Ignorance

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CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

Read the passage below. What is the child trying to do?

Hey mom, I really think we should make my bedtime half an hour later. Everyone in my class goes to sleep later than I do. I don't think I need as much sleep as I used to. Each night I lay awake for a long time before I go to sleep.

• give reasons to support his argument

• entertain his mother

• teach his mother how to do something

• get to sleep before his mother

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CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

What is evidence?

• arguable or debatable statement

• make the audience feel a certain way

• facts, statistics, examples, first-person accounts, expert testimony, and numerical data like graphs and charts.

• not based on logical reasoning and are often irrational or unreasonably emotional

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

What is appeals to emotions?

• developed to make the audience feel a certain way: angry, happy, sad

• aimed at convincing the audience through logical evidence

• convincing the audience that the speaker/writer can be trusted

• not based on logical reasoning and are often irrational

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What are fallacies?

• not based on logical reasoning and are often irrational or unreasonably emotional

• convincing the audience that the speaker/writer can be trusted

• convincing the audience through logical evidence such as statistics

• to make the audience feel a certain way

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.7.8

Dr. Fauci says we need to wear masks, but Dr. Fauci is the oldest, meanest doctor around. I’m sure what he says isn’t true at all.

• False Dilemma

• Appeal to Fear

• Personal Attack

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

Kelly is the most selfish, annoying person that I know. She says that we should recycle to help save the Earth, but she only thinks about herself, so she must be wrong.

• Personal Attack

• Appeal to Fear

• False Dilemma

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CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

Everybody in Texas loves bacon, right?

• Hasty Generalization
• Appeal to Ignorance

• Bandwagon

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CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.6.1