Logical Fallacies

“The Kansas City Chiefs are going to the superbowl this year, I’m going to start liking them now.”

• This statement is an example of a bandwagon fan.
• This statement is an example of a red herring.

• This statement is an example of circular reasoning.

• This statement is an example of a slippery slope.

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“The majority of people in the United States die in hospitals, so stay out of them.”

• Dogmatism

• Faulty Analogy

• Slippery Slope

• Sweeping Generalization

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“50% of marriages end in divorce; you should never date anyone.”

• Straw Man

• Slippery Slope

• Non Sequitur

• Stacking the Deck

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“All sports are the same because they are all competitive.”

• Red Herring

• Faulty Analogy

• Non Sequitur

• Equivocation

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“ All trees have bark. Dogs bark. Dogs must be trees.”

• Red Herring

• Ad Populum

• Straw Man

• Equivocation

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“ Everyone is buying the iPhone 13, so im going to buy one too.”

• Bandwagon

• Cause and Effect

• Faulty Causailty

• Dogmatism

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• "vaping is bad, but it isn't as bad as smoking tobacco."

• Ad Populum

• Moral Equivalence

• Either or Choice

• Faulty Analogy

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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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"Russia has a terrible human rights record." "Well, the United States has done plenty of bad things." -the President when confronted about Russia's human rights abuses.

• slippery slope

• red herring

• moral equivalence

• non sequitur

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There is a lot of commotion regarding saving the environment. We cannot make this world an Eden. What will happen if it does become Eden? Adam and Eve got bored there!

• red herring

• moral equivalence

• non sequitur

• straw man

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