Logical Fallacies

What is a logical fallacy?

• An argument with a premise and a conclusion

• An argument that contains a non-statement

• An argument that contains mistake in reasoning

• Sorry sir, please slap me

A driver with a New York license plate cuts you off in traffic. You decide that all New York drivers are terrible drivers.

• hasty generalization

• either-or fallacy

• false cause and effect

• stereotyping

• Ethos
• Pathos
• Logos

• Ethos
• Pathos
• Logos

• Ethos 
• Pathos
• Logos

You got a good grade on your essay because the teacher likes you.

• Self-Contradiction

• Assumptions

• Over-Generalization

• False Causality

Michael Jordan, battery ad.

• Bandwagon Appeal
• Post Hoc
• Red Herring
• False Authority

You should never gamble. Once you start gambling you find it hard to stop. Soon you are spending all your money on gambling, and eventually you will turn to crime to support your earnings.

• Non Sequitur 
• Slippery Slope
• Circular Reasoning
• Card Stacking

I am voting for Smith for President because the rest of my family is voting for him. 

• Hasty Generalization
• Straw Man
• Bandwagon Appeal
• Appeal to False Authority

Unless you can close your eyes to abuse, write a check to save this puppy.

• ad hominem
• hasty generalization
• either-or fallacy
• slippery slope