Logical Fallacies

What type of fallacy does the following cartoon represent?

• either/or (false dilemma)

• straw man

What type of fallacy does the following cartoon represent?

• ad hominem

• red herring

• faulty analogy

It is warmer this year in Las Vegas as compared to last year; therefore, global warming is rapidly accelerating.

• slippery slope

• red herring

• circular reasoning

• hasty generalization

If we use just one more can of hairspray this month, earth as we know it will no longer exist.

• hasty generalization

• slippery slope

• red herring

• straw man

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

• ad hominem

• moral equivalence

• non sequitur

• circular reasoning

The conclusions that one thing caused another simply because one happened before the other.

• false dichotomy

• false causality

• circular reasoning

• guilt by association

Drawing a conclusion based on a small sample size; a broad claim based on limited evidence.

• non sequitur

• false causation

• red herring

• hasty generalization

Assumes that a proposed step will set off a chain of uncontrollable events.

• slippery slope

• begging the question/circular reasoning

• either or fallacy otherwise called false dilemma

• red herring

If I say that a surgeon should be allowed to use a guidebook to carry out surgery like a student can use open notes on a test, I have made a

• slippery slope fallacy

• circular argument

• false analogy

__________ is a mistake in reasoning, a flawed argument used just to win a debate, a distraction from the actual argument, or a foundational weakness in reasoning.

• Valid Argument

• The Statue Quo

• Ad Hominem

• Logical Fallacy