Logical Fallacies

Children should not go trick or treating, as there always

exists the possibility that someone could poison the treats.

• Ad Hominem

• Hasty Generalization

• Restricted Options

• Appeal to Fear

If you allow one student to take an online course, soon

everyone will want to, and the schools will be empty.

• Slippery Slope

• Band Wagon

• Ambiguity

• Insufficient Evidence

If you believe in capital punishment, you are a conservative.

• Slippery Slope

• Ad Hominem

• Restricted Options

• Band Wagon

If you eat a good diet, you will never have a heart attack.

• Misplaced cause and effect

• Band Wagon

• Ambiguity

• Hasty Generalization

Children who play violent video games act more violently than those who don’t.

• Appeals to emotion

• Slippery Slope

• Misplaced cause & effect

• Ad Hominem

Eighty-five percent of those surveyed said that it is important to have a cell phone.

• Bandwagon

• Slippery Slope

• Misplaced Cause and Effect

• Restricted Options

Only a selfish, non-caring person would believe that this is ok.

• Ad Hominem

• Band Wagon

• Appeals to emotion

• Slippery Slope

Asthma can be reversed, as my sister cured hers buy spending fifteen minutes out in the cold every day last winter.

• Hasty Generalization

• Misplaced Cause and Effect

• Slippery Slope

• Insufficient Evidence

Everyone knows that teenagers are lazy

• Ad Hominem

• Band Wagon

• Appeals to Emotion

• Hasty Generalization

If we don’t teach teens to work harder, the human race is doomed.

• Band Wagon

• Appeal to Fear

• Insufficient Evidence

• Restricted Options