Logical Fallacies Practice Quiz

“Ask any company where they’d rather locate and hire workers--a country with crumbling roads and bridges, or one that’s committed to high-speed Internet and high-speed railroads and high-tech research and development?”--President Obama, 2012

• Either-Or

• Authority

• False Cause

• Non-Sequitur

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Identify the fallacy in this ad.

• Hasty Generalization

• Authority

• Slippery Slope

• Non-Sequitur

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“This week it's Robert E. Lee. I notice that Stonewall Jackson's coming down. I wonder; is it George Washington next week, and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?” --President Trump, 2017, on the removal of Confederate General statues

• Appeal to Ignorance

• Ad hominem

• Slippery Slope

• Non-Sequitur

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Student to professor: “I really deserve an A on this paper. Not only did I study during my grandmother’s funeral, but I also had to tell my girlfriend I couldn’t take her to the homecoming dance because I was working on it.”

• Appeal to Pity (emotion)

• Weak Analogy

• Bandwagon

• Non-Sequitur

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People who lose their jobs in the coal industry will undoubtedly be able to find jobs in renewable energy.

• False Cause

• Hasty Generalization

• Ad hominem

• Non-Sequitur

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Saying something must be true (or false) because there isn’t evidence to the contrary. Part of the "snap decision" group.

• Appeal to ignorance

• Either-Or

• Hasty Generalization

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If the main premise of the argument is that many people believe it or agree with it or do it so it must be true/good/acceptable, then it’s a _(one word)_ fallacy.

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This fallacy is when a comparison is used to prove or disprove an argument, but the comparison is too dissimilar to be effective, that is, it is unlike the argument more than it is like the argument.

• Appeal to Ignorance

• Appeal to Pity

• Weak analogy

• Ad hominem

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If you are arguing something related to the topic, but avoiding the ACTUAL topic, you are making a _____ ___ argument.

Write your answer as two separate words.

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