Logical Fallacies

What is the fallacy called when someone attacks the character of an opponent instead of addressing their argument?

• Either-Or
• Straw Man Argument
• Ad Hominem
• Appeals to Pity

What is the fallacy called when someone predicts that something will happen in the future based on something that might happen now?

• False Causality
• Weak Analogy
• Non Sequitur
• Slippery Slope

What is the fallacy called when someone presents the absence of evidence to the contrary as evidence of a fact?

• Appeals to Ignorance
• Either-Or
• Bandwagon
• Authority

What is the fallacy called when a statement or conclusion does not logically follow from the previous statement or conclusion?

• Slippery Slope
• Weak Analogy
• Non Sequitur
• False Causality

What is the fallacy called when someone argues for a border wall by saying 'do you want to have your country overrun by criminals? If not, build a wall'?

• Hasty Generalization
• Either-Or
• Appeals to Ignorance
• Bandwagon

What is the fallacy called when an argument seems exclusively based on an endorsement?

• Slippery Slope
• Authority
• False Causality
• Weak Analogy

What is the fallacy called when someone traces something that's already happened back to its cause?

• Weak Analogy
• Slippery Slope
• False Causality
• Straw Man Argument

What is the fallacy called when an argument relies on overly emotional appeals?

• Appeals to Pity
• Non Sequitur
• Either-Or
• Bandwagon

What is the fallacy called when two options being compared are not appropriately similar?

• Weak Analogy
• Appeals to Pity
• Straw Man Argument
• Non Sequitur

What is the fallacy called when someone assumes that one thing may have caused another based on little evidence?

• False Causality
• Hasty Generalization
• Appeals to Ignorance
• Slippery Slope