Logical Fallacies

America is the best place to live, because it's better than any other country.

• ad hominem

• red herring

• circular logic

• straw man

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The news is fake because so much of the news is fake.

• ad hominem

• moral equivalence

• non sequitur

• circular reasoning

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If you allow one student to take an online course, soon

everyone will want to, and the schools will be empty.

• Slippery Slope

• Band Wagon

• Ambiguity

• Insufficient Evidence

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Only a selfish, non-caring person would believe that this is ok.

• Ad Hominem

• Band Wagon

• Appeals to emotion

• Slippery Slope

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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

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An ad hominem attack

• is a very effective debate strategy
• goes after a person's argument.
• is always against a popular idea.
• is an attack on the person, not the argument 

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the phrase "Ninety percent of all people surveyed said that McDonalds is better than Burger King so it must be true."  represents which fallacy?

• The Straw Man Fallacy
• The Slippery Slope Fallacy
• The Bandwagon Fallacy
• The Argument from Authority Fallacy

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You ask your mother if you can go to the mall with your friends. She says "no". You ask why? She says, "because I'm the mom and I say so". This is an example of which logical fallacy? 

• The Strawman Fallacy
• The Argument from Authority Fallacy
• The Argument from Ignorance Fallacy
• the Two Wrongs Make a Right Fallacy

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

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Your friend says, "You can't prove that space aliens don't exist, so they must be real". This is an example of which logical fallacy?

• Argument from Ignorance
• Strawman Fallacy
• Argument from Authority
• Ad Hominem

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Substituting a person's actual position with a misrepresented (and usually weaker) version of their argument.

• straw man argument

• appeal to nature

• non sequitur

• guilt by association

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