Types of Fallacy

What type of fallacy is used in the statement below?

"Everyone wants to get married someday.

A good self-concept is important in attracting a husband or wife.

Therefore, everyone should develop a good self-concept."

• faulty logic

• unsupported fact

• emotional appeal

What type of fallacy was used in the statement below?

"Students who take Physics instead of Earth Science are studious and hardworking. Susie took physics instead of earth science.

She should receive an academic distinction."

• faulty logic

• unsupported facts

• emotional appeal

What type of fallacy was used in the statement below?

“I loved that movie we saw last night starring Daniel Padilla.

I am going to rent all of his movies, and I am sure I will like all of them.”

• faulty logic

• unsupported fact

• emotional appeal

What type of fallacy was used in the statement below?

"Science shows that the Earth is billions of years old!"

• faulty logic

• unsupported fact

• emotional appeal

What type of fallacy was used in the statement below?

There must be objective rights and wrongs in the universe. If not, how can you possibly say that torturing babies for fun could ever be right?

• faulty logic

• unsupported facts

• emotional appeal

What types of fallacy was used in the statement below?

As Mayor, my top priority will be improving education.

So my first act of office will be to cut funding for our public schools.

• faulty logic

• unsupported facts

• emotional appeal

What type of fallacy was used in the statement below?

 I know why you failed in English in the previous quarters. You don‘t study.

• faulty logic

• unsupported facts

• emotional appeal

What type of fallacy was used in the statement below?

I met a little boy with cancer who lived just 20 miles from a power line who looked into my eyes and said, in his weak voice, “Please do whatever you can so that other kids won‘t have to go through what I am going through.”

• faulty logic

• unsupported facts

• emotional appeal

thesis statement  is ________

• one-sentence summary of the claim of the writer

• opposing

  point of view

• available

  body of facts or information

• main idea of the paragraph

refutation is ______

• presents facts and considering a topic from every angle

• opposing

  point of view

• proving an idea to be false