Logical Fallacies

"This is the best band because they make the best music!" This statement is an example of which logical fallacy?

• Bandwagon

• Ad hominem

• Circular Reasoning

• No fallacy

"Annie must love Starbucks! Don't all girls love Starbucks?"

• Stereotyping/

  Generalization

• Circular Reasoning

• Ad hominem

• Affinity Fraud

Billy - "An apple is a vegetable."  Bobby - "Don't listen to Billy; he failed Spanish class last year. "

• circular reasoning

• ad hominem

• false dilemma (either/or reasoning)

• bandwagon

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

• circular reasoning

• ad hominem

• slippery slope

• appeal to authority

Look, either you love me and buy me chocolates, or you hate me and we never speak again.

• ad hominem

• slippery slope

• false dilemma (either/or reasoning)

• hasty generalization

My professor, who has a Ph.D. in Astronomy, once told me that ghosts are real. Therefore, ghosts are real.

• slippery slope

• appeal to false authority

• ad hominem

• circular reasoning

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

• Appeal to false authority

• False dilemma

• Ad hominem

• Slippery Slope

I guess I should buy my 12-year-old daughter an iPhone. Everyone at her new school has one and I want her to fit in with the other kids.

• appeal to false authority

• bandwagon

• slippery slope

• either/or

Oh, please. What would you know about labor laws? You don’t even have a job.

• Ad hominem

• Slippery slope

• false dilemma

• circular reasoning

"The two books I read this year were not interesting. All books are just boring and a waste of time.

• Ad hominem

• False dilemma

• Hasty generalization

• Slippery Slope