Logical Fallacies

If you don't brush your teeth twice a day, they will rot and give you blood poisoning! Those nasty teeth nuggets could even make you have a heart attack!

• Hasty Generalization

• Straw Man

• Scare Tactics

• Appeal to False Authority

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CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

My 7th grade English teacher told me that the President would be impeached in the next 90 days, so we should take this claim seriously!

• Appeal to False Authority

• Ad Hominem

• Straw Man

• Either/Or

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

Joey: "Evolution is real."

Suzy: "Don't be stupid! How can you possibly believe that we evolved from pond scum?!?"

• Ad Hominem

• Slippery Slope

• Band Wagon

• Straw Man

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CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

Suzy: "Oh come on. Don't be lame. Everyone is doing it!"

Jenny: "I don't know...isn't smoking bad for you?"

• Hasty Generalization

• Bandwagon

• Either/Or

• Slippery Slope

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CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

My father smoked four packs of cigarettes a day since age fourteen and lived until age 73. Therefore, smoking can't really be that bad for you.

• Slippery Slope

• Faulty Causality

• Ad Hominem

• Hasty Generalization

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

"No one should listen to you. You haven't held a steady job since 1992. Worse than that, we couldn't find a single employer who'd provide you with a good reference."

• Slippery Slope

• Either/Or

• Ad Hominem

• Sentimental Appeal

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

I bought new shoes, then suddenly everyone was buying new shoes. They must have bought shoes because they liked mine.

• Faulty Causality

• Either/Or

• Slippery Slope

• Sentimental Appeal

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CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

If you don’t do your homework, you’ll fail the class.

If you fail this class, you won’t graduate from school.

If you don’t graduate, you won’t get into college.

If you don’t attend a good college, you won’t get a good job.

If you don’t get a good job, you’ll be poor and homeless.

You don’t want to be poor and homeless, do you?

• Straw Man

• Sentimental Appeal

• Either/Or

• Slippery Slope

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.7.8

Please donate to the ASPCA so they can save poor, starving puppies!

• Ad Hominem

• Bandwagon

• Sentimental Appeal

• Either/Or

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

You can either come with me to the party tonight, or sit home alone, bored out of your mind.

• Either/Or

• Slippery Slope

• Band Wagon

• Straw Man