AOT 5th Unit 9 Review May 3 24

An argument that may sound convincing or true, but it actually false or flawed.

• Conclusion

• Fallacy of logic

• Metacognition

• Convergent thinking

This fallacy happens when a person generalizes from a sample that is either too small or too specific to represent the population.

• Generalization fallacy

• Red herring fallacy

• Ad homimem fallacy

• False equivalency fallacy

This fallacy happens when someone attacks a person's character rather than the argument or what the person is saying.

• Red Herring

• Generalization

• Straw Man

• Ad Hominem

This fallacy happens when somone incorrectly says that two or more things are equivalent or equal just because they share some characteristics.

• Generalization fallacy

• False equivalency fallacy

• Red herring fallacy

• Straw man fallacy

This fallacy occurs when someone changes their opponent's argument and then refutes this new version of the argument.

• Ad Hominem fallacy

• Straw Man fallacy

• Red Herring fallacy

• Generalization fallacy

This fallacy happens when irrelevant information is presented alongside relevant information, distracting the attention from the relevant information.

• Red Herring fallacy

• Ad Hominem fallacy

• Straw Man fallacy

• False Analogy fallacy

This fallacy happens when a person says that two things are alike in many ways just because they are alike in one way.

• Straw Man fallacy

• Generalization fallacy

• Ad Hominem fallacy

• False Analogy fallacy

In this type of fallacy a person makes a claim that one event leads to another, and another and so on until we reach an illogical or undesirable conclusion.

• Generalization fallacy

• Slippery Slope fallacy

• Red Herring fallacy

• Ad Hominem fallacy

Taylor Swift is the number one singer. Why? Because she is the best singer. This is an example of:

• Red herring fallacy

• Convergent thinking

• Circular reasoning

• Metacognition

This type of reasoning concludes that an argument is validated by itself. There is no proof besided what has already been said.

• Metacognition

• Divergent thinking

• Convergent thinking

• Circular reasoning