Logical Fallacies

Attacking the arguer instead of the argument

• Slippery Slope

• False Dilemma

• Ad Hominem

• Straw Man

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Oversimplifying the argument by reducing it to only two sides or choices

• Slippery Slope

• Either / Or

• Appeal to Authority

• Straw Man

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Ignoring someone's actual position, distorting it or exaggerating it in an extreme way, and then attacking the extreme distortion as if that is really the claim the person is making.

• Slippery Slope

• Ad Hominem

• Begging the Question

• Straw Man

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Assuming that a proposed step will set off a chain of events that would eventually lead to one major bad event.

• Slippery Slope

• Begging the Question

• False Dilemma

• Red Herring

Justifying a claim because a large group favors it

• Glittering Generality

• Bandwagon

• Appeal to Emotion

• Appeal to Questionable Authority

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Rushing to a conclusion without relevant facts to support it

• Red Herring

• Ad Hominem

• Black and White

• Hasty Generalization

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Engaging in a diversionary tactic that avoids the key issues, often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them

• Circular Argument

• Appeal to Ignorance

• Red Herring

• Straw Man

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Comparing minor misdeeds with major atrocities, suggesting that both are equally immoral.

• Either / Or

• Moral Equivalence

• Ad Hominem

• Red Herring

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Accepting as a cause something that merely occurred earlier in time

• Post hoc ergo propter hoc

• Ad Populum

• Ad hominem

• Red Herring

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Restating the argument rather than actually proving it

• Hasty Generalization

• Either / Or

• Circular Reasoning

• Moral Equivalence

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1