Errors of Logic Review

It’s okay to cheat on exams because everybody does it.

• Straw man argument

• Bandwagon

• Slippery slope

• Stereotype

If you are not vegetarian, you don't care about animals.

• Scare tactics

• Faulty Causality

• Ad hominem

• Either/or

• She shouldn’t have stopped for coffee on the way to work. If she hadn’t stopped, she wouldn’t have had a fender bender.

• Straw man argument

• Slippery slope

• Faulty causality

• Ad hominem

A: I like Chinese food more than pizza.

B: Well then, you must hate pizza.

• Stereotype

• Straw man argument

• Either-or

• Scare tactics

What's an example of an ad hominem fallacy?

• • If students are required to wear uniforms to school, they’ll do less shopping at local clothing stores. With less business, the stores will close, which will hurt our local economy. 

• It’s hard to take your claims seriously because you spend your days playing video games.

• People from the north east of Thailand are lazy and don't want to work.

• If you don’t buy this product, you risk injury and death.

Which is an example of a straw man fallacy?

• If we start having more driverless cars, then the roads will be unsafe.

• If you don't know how to drive a car, you must be unintelligent.

• All cars are potentially dangerous.

• A: Cars are dangerous.

  B: So you think cars should be banned?

What is an example of scare tactic fallacy?

• • Whenever I wear my lucky jersey, my team loses. So it must actually be my unlucky jersey!

• Elizabeth Smith doesn’t understand foreign policy. If you elect Elizabeth Smith as president, we will be attacked by terrorists.

• • If emotional support dogs are allowed on campus, what’s going to stop students from trying to bring emotional support horses, snakes, or scorpions?

• • Every time they see a rainbow in the sky, something good happens. So whenever something good happens, they know there must be a rainbow.

What is an example of a slippery slope fallacy?

• Stalin was evil and against religion. All people against religion are evil.

• A teacher says her class needs to spend more time on math tasks. A parent complains, saying the teacher doesn’t care about literacy subjects.

• 1. You either love your country, or you’re unpatriotic. You can’t be apathetic about your nation!

• • If students are required to wear uniforms to school, they’ll do less shopping at local clothing stores. With less business, the stores will close, which will hurt our local economy. 

What type of fallacy is in the following statement? "You can't possibly understand what I am going through because you've never been a parent".

• Slippery slope

• Ad hominem

• Straw man argument

• Stereotype

"If I let you go to the bathroom pretty soon everybody will want to go to the bathroom." This is an example of ....

• False causality

• Bandwagon

• Slippery slope

• Scare tactics