TUTORIAL 5 FALLACY

A fallacy that involves trying to gain sympathy in order to win support.

• Ad hominem

• Appeal to emotions

• Appeal to pity

• Tu quoque

A fallacy in which the speaker presents two extreme options as the only possibly choices.

• Appeal to emotions

• Red herring

• Circular argument

• False dilemma

An attack on the character of the individual or the opponent rather than his or her actual arguments or qualifications

• Tu quoque

• Ad hominem

• Straw man

• Appeal to ignorance

When something is associated with good/bad feelings, then it must be true/wrong (manipulates people's emotions)

• Appeal to pity

• Slippery slope

• Appeal to ignorance

• Appeal to emotions

Arguments that distract by making the audience feel sorry for the speaker or someone on behalf of whom the speaker is arguing.

• Appeal to emotions

• Hasty generalization

• Appeal to pity

• Red herring

The appeal to hypocrisy.

• Ad hominem

• Straw man

• Red herring

• Tu quoque

When a speaker skips to a new and irrelevant topic in order to avoid the topic of discussion.

• False dilemma

• Red herring

• Straw man

• Slippery slope

Setting up an artificially easy argument to refute in place of the real issue.

• Straw man

• Hasty generalization

• Red herring

• Tu quoque

A fallacy that assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that cannot be prevented.

• Equivocation

• Appeal to pity

• Slippery slope

• Hasty generalization

Avoiding countering an opposing argument directly by introducing a non-issue to the argument.

• Straw man

• Appeal to authority

• Slippery slope

• Red herring