Logical Fallacies Review

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

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

This is an example of.....

• Hasty Generalization

• Bandwagon

• Either/Or

• Slippery Slope

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?

This is an example of....

• Straw Man

• Sentimental Appeal

• Either/Or

• Slippery Slope

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

This is an example of...

• Either/Or

• Slippery Slope

• Band Wagon

• Straw Man

People either like coffee or hate it.

This is an example of...

• Ad Hominem

• Either/Or

• Red herring

• Band Wagon

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

This is an example of...

• Hasty Generalization

• Straw Man

• Bandwagon Appeal

• Appeal to False Authority

Introducing an irrelevant topic to distract from the actual argument

This is an example of...

• slippery slope

• ad hominem

• red herring

• straw man

Arguing that something is true simply because most people believe it

This is an example of...

• bandwagon

• appeal to authority

• begging the claim

• hasty generalization

Jenny notices that many of her friends have started eating a low-carb diet and drinking protein shakes. Jenny decides this must be the healthy way to eat so she joins them.

This is an example of ....

• Red Herring

• Ad populum

• Straw man

• Moral equivalence

Eighteen-year-olds have the right to vote because it's legal for them to vote. This is an example of...

• Genetic fallacy

• Begging the Claim

• Circular Argument

• Ad hominem

An argument based on a personal attack on someone's character.

• appeal to nature

• ad hominem

• non sequitur

• bandwagon fallacy