Logical Fallacies

Logical Fallacies Definition:

Flaws in ___ used to try to bolster weak arguments

Interference drawn from insufficient evidence

• Begging the Question

• Either/Or

• Hasty Generalization

• Slippery Slope

EX: My Toyota just broke down, so all Toyota’s must be poorly made

• Slippery Slope

• Faulty Casuality

• Hasty Generalization

• Ad Hominem

Incorrect assumption because one event or action follows another, the first caused the second

• Faulty Causality

• Begging the Question

• Hasty Generalization

• Red Herring

EX: I drank bottled water and now I am sick, so the water must've made me sick

• Circular Argument

• Hasty Generalization

• Moral Equivalent

• Faulty Casuality

Unfair oversimplification of an issue by providing only two opinions as a possible solution

• Straw Man

• Appeal to False Authority

• Either/Or

• Genetic Fallacy

EX: We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth

• Bandwagon

• Either/Or

• Faulty Causality

• Scare Tactics

Exaggeration of the likely consequences of an action, designed to show a misstep today could result in a disaster in the future

• Bandwagon

• Ad Hominem

• Genetic Fallacy

• Slippery Slope

EX: If we ban hummers because they are bad for the environment, eventually the government will ban all cars so we should not ban hummers

• Moral Equivalent

• Slippery Slope

• Sentimental Appeal

• Straw Man

Arguments using you to follow the same path everyone else is taking

• Either/Or

• Slippery Slope

• Bandwagon

• Ad Hominem