Logical Fallacies 1st

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

"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

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

Everyone seems to support the changes in the vacation policy, and if everyone likes them, they must be

good.

• Slippery Slope

• Band Wagon

• Misplaced Cause and Effect

• Ambiguity

Person 1: Bicycle infrastructure should be expanded because cycling is a sustainable mode of transportation.

Person 2: We should not build bike lanes because cyclists run red lights and endanger pedestrians.

• Band Wagon

• Either/Or

• Hasty Generalization

• Straw Man

Introducing an irrelevant topic to distract from the actual argument

• slippery slope

• ad hominem

• red herring

• straw man

Arguing that something is true simply because most people believe it

• bandwagon

• appeal to authority

• begging the claim

• hasty generalization

Rejecting an argument based on a person's habits, personality, morals, or character. Talking bad about the person without addressing the argument.

• red herring

• bandwagon

• double standard

• ad hominem

Arguing that one action will definitely lead to something drastically worse, without sufficient evidence

• correlation no causation

• slippery slope

• bandwagon

• double standard

Ignoring a person's actual position and substituting a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position.

• begging the claim

• red herring

• straw man

• correlation no causation