Logical fallacy practice

Which logical fallacy is a type of argument in which the conclusion comes back to the premise without providing any outside proof, meaning both sides of the argument are making the same point?

• Red Herring

• Straw Man

• Circular Reasoning

• False Analogy

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

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Which logical fallacy uses comparison to support a conclusion in a logical argument.

• Red Herring

• Straw Man

• False Analogy

• Circular Reasoning

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

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CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"I deserve to have a later curfew, so you should let me stay out until 10pm!"

• Red Herring

• Straw Man

• False Analogy

• Circular Reasoning

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CCSS.RI.8.8

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"You have to invite Jenna to your party because it would not be nice not to invite Jenna."

• Red Herring

• Straw Man

• False Analogy

• Circular Reasoning

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CCSS.RI.8.8

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If we ever find aliens out there they will need oxygen in some form on their planet. We know this because all animals on this planet require oxygen.

• Red Herring

• Straw Man

• False Analogy

• Circular Reasoning

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

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The arguer attacks his/her opponent as a person instead of the opponents argument

• Ad Hominem

• Appeals to Authority

• Band Wagon

• Slippery Slope

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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

I drank bottled water and now I am sick, so the water must have made me sick.

• Hasty Generalization

• False cause

• Genetic Fallacy

• Either/or

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CCSS.RI.8.8

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Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty, lazy hippies.

• Ad hominem

• Red Herring

• Moral Equivalence

• Begging the Claim

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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

Incorrect assumption that one event caused another event correlation does not imply causation.

Ex: I dyed my hair red last week. This week, three other girls showed up to school with freshly dyed red hair. They must have made the change because they liked my hair.

• Hasty Generalization

• Faulty Casualty

• Slippery Slope

• Appeal to False Authority

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

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Ad Hominem

• In Latin, this means: to the man. When you attack a person's character instead of the quality his/her ideas.

  Ex: Oh please , what do you know about labor laws? You don't even have a job.

• Misrepresenting or twisting someone's argument so it's easier to attack and knockdown

  Ex: Wife: I'd rather have a dog than a cat.Husband: Why do you hate cats?

• Using fear to sway people by exaggerating possible dangers well beyond their statistical likelihood

  Ex: "If you don't buy this product, you risk injury and death."

• Arguments urging you to follow the same path that everyone else is taking

  Ex: This technique is commonly used to sway these two groups: teens and voters

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5