Logical Fallacies

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

• Misplaced cause and effect

• Band Wagon

• Ambiguity

• Hasty Generalization

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Everyone knows that teenagers are lazy

• Ad Hominem

• Band Wagon

• Appeals to Emotion

• Hasty Generalization

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Which logical fallacy is shown in this example:

Half the people on the jury already believe that the defendant killed her husband, and that many people can't be wrong.

• Slippery Slope

• Overgeneralization

• Ad Populum

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Which fallacy presents only two opposing options, with no other alternatives. It uses the "you are either for us, or against us" rhetoric?

"Either the butler did it, or the witness for the defense is lying."

• Red herring

• False anatomy

• Ad hominem (personal attack)

• Either/or reasoning, false dichotomy

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Which fallacy appeals to the popular idea or concept as the correct course of action?

"Everybody in our family goes to Georgetown for undergrad, so it only makes sense that you do, too."

• Hasty generalization

• False analogy

• Ad populum/bandwagon

• Circular reasoning

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__________ 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

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Why is it important to know logical fallacies?

• To get into arguments

• To impress your teacher and classmates

• To detect errors in your writing as well as others

• None of the above

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"Russia has a terrible human rights record." "Well, the United States has done plenty of bad things." -the President when confronted about Russia's human rights abuses.

• slippery slope

• red herring

• moral equivalence

• non sequitur

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• Faulty Causality

• False Authority

• Either/Or (False Dichotomy)

• Bandwagon

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Diverting attention from something (usually something the arguer wants to avoid) by changing the subject to something else.

• hasty generalization

• moral equivalence

• non-sequitur

• red herring

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