Logical Fallacies (Honors)

Bill says Jenny would make a good class president, but Bill makes bad grades, so we shouldn't vote for Jenny.

• False Cause

• Bandwagon

• Straw Man

• Ad Hominem

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MeowMeowMeowTweet is an American-made skincare. I used it, and it gave me zits. All American-made skincare gives people acne.

• Hasty Generalization

• Slippery Slope

• False Cause

• Bandwagon

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Sometimes kids ride skateboards and fall off, breaking their arms and legs. Clearly, riding a skateboard is extremely dangerous. Don't you think skateboards should be banned?

• Slippery Slope

• Faulty Appeal to Logic

• Appeal to Fear

• False Cause

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Your two choices in life are to save money and buy a car or waste your money on Uber rides.

• Bifurcation

• Appeal to Pity

• Special Pleading

• Transfer

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ARGUMENT: Our society should help educate the poor about social programs designed to help them.

COUNTERARGUMENT: Handing the poor handouts is not going to help. It’s just a waste of time and paper. Most people do not read handouts.

• Snob Appeal

• False Cause

• Proof by Lack of Evidence

• Straw Man

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What is wrong with Tanya? She only has five hundred dollars saved and she’s going away to college next year. That would be like letting my four-year-old brother go to Russia alone.

• False Cause

• False Analogy

• Hasty Generalization

• Slippery Slope

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DEFINITION: Arguer keeps repeating the same idea without adding any new information, evidence, or claims

• Circular Reasoning

• Bifurcation

• Either/Or

• Exigency

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TRUE/FALSE: Ad hominem is Latin for "to the people"

• True

• False

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What is the logical fallacy being used in the picture?

• Transfer

• Exigency

• Bandwagon

• Snob Appeal

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What TWO logical fallacies are being used in the picture?

• False Analogy

• Hasty Generalization

• Equivocation

• Either/Or

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