Logical Fallacies

This logical fallacy is when the argument is RESTATED rather then PROVEN

• Circular Reasoning

• Hasty Generalization

• Slippery Slope

• Straw Man

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.3

"Opium is a sleep-inducing because it has a sleep-inducing quality"

• Equivocation

• Straw Man

• Circular Reasoning

• Hasty Generalization

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.3

"The wind is invisible because I can't see it, and I can't see it because it's invisible."

• Ad Hominem

• Circular Reasoning

• Slippery Slope

• Bandwagon

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.3

Logical Fallacy when someone makes a sweeping statement without considering all of the facts.

• Slippery slope

• Hasty Generalization

• False analogy

• False Dichotomy

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.3

A man walks through a town for the first time and sees 10 people. All of those people are children, and so the man concludes that all of the town's residents are children.

• Straw Man

• Slippery Slope

• Hasty generalization

• Ad Hominem

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.3

The conclusion that is based on the idea that one small step will lead to a chain of events resulting in some significant event.

• Appeal to Emotion

• Equivocation

• Slippery Slope

• False Analogy

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.3

“If you don’t study on Saturdays, your grades will suffer. If your grades suffer, you won’t graduate school with high honors, which means you won’t get a good job. Since you won’t have a good job, you’ll have to live on the streets.”

• Slippery Slope

• Hasty Generalization

• Circular Reasoning

• False Dichotomy

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.3

The distortion of an opponent’s 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.

• Straw Man

• Slippery Slope

• False Analogy

• Bandwagon

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.3

 If someone said, “Schools should be more lenient with standardized testing,” a ___________ reply to this would be “If we stop giving tests in school we are going to raise an ignorant generation that won’t have the skills to live in the real world.”

• False Dichotomy

• Circular Reasoning

• Ad Hominem

• Straw Man

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.3

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

• False Analogy

• Circular Reasoning

• Ad Hominem

• Slippery Slope

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CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1