Logical Fallacies

When the argument is restated rather than proven

• Circular reasoning

• Hasty generalization

• Slippery slope

• Strawman

When someone makes a sweeping statement without considering all of the facts

• Hasty generalization

• False dichotomy

• Ad hominem

• Strawman

A conclusion based on the promise that one small step will lead to a chain of events resulting in some significant event

• Circular reasoning

• slippery slope

• Appeal to emotion

• Equivocation

When someone distant an opponents claim so that it is easier to refute, or where someone tries to refute a point someone made by giving a rebuttal to a point they did not make

• Ad hominem

• Strawman

• False dichotomy

• Appeal to emotion

An attack on a person’s character or personal attributes in order to discredit their argument

• Bandwagon

• Equivocation

• Strawman

• Ad hominem

When an argument presents two points while disregarding or ignoring others in order to narrow the argument in one persons favor

• Appeal to emotion

• False dichotomy

• False analogy

• Bandwagon

When a writer or speaker uses emotion based language to try to persuade the reader or listener of a certain belief or position

• Bandwagon

• Ad hominem

• Appeal to emotion

• Strawman

When an argument is presented in an ambiguous, double sided way, making the argument misleading

• Equivocation

• Circular reasoning

• Slippery slope

• Hasty generalization

An appeal that presents the thoughts of a group of people in order to persuade someone to think the same way

• Bandwagon

• False analogy

• Circular reasoning

• False dichotomy

When two things that are unalike are being compared based on a trivial similarity in order to prove a point

• Bandwagon

• Ad hominem

• False analogy

• Equivocation