12 logical fallacies

Ad Hominem

• Establishes a false cause for the issue at hand

• The phrase refers to the diversionary tactic of switching the argument from the issue at hand to the character of the speaker.

• Appeals to what is popular to the majority rather than the validity of the argument.

• A conclusion is made when there is insufficient evidence to support it.

"Either your with democracy and the united states or your with terrorism"

• Either/or Reasoning

• Slippery Slope Fallacy

• Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

• Straw Man Fallacy

Bananas and telephones are both shaped to fit our hands, so bananas must, like telephones, be designed.

• Ad Populumm Fallacy

• Hasty Generalization

• Faulty Analogy

• Slippery slope

Ad populum Fallacy

• Ad populum fallacy appeals to what is popular with the majority rather than the validity of the argument.

• Ad populum fallacy is a logical proof.
• Ad Populum Fallacy is when two things that are completely different are compared, usually focuses on irrelevant similarities.

• Ad populum fallacy is a type of argument from authority.

Redirecting an audiences attention, away from an issue at hand.

• Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

• Either/ or Reasoning

• Straw Man Fallacy

• Red herring

Straw Man Fallacy

• establishes a false cause for the issue at hand.

• A straw Man Fallacy attacks the argument that none is really making or portraying the opponents position a, more extreme than it actually is.

• Redirecting an audiences attention, away from an issue at hand.

• Two extreme options are the only situations also known as a dilema.

If I don't pass tomorrow's exam, this might affect my GPA, which in turn might impact my chances of going to a good college, which in turn would mean i wouldn't get a good job, which in turn would mean i would have a horrible life.

• Ad Hominem Fallacy

• Slippery slope Fallacy

• Faulty Analogy

• Hasty Generalization.

I've met two people in Greece so far, and they were both nice to me. So, all the people I will meet in Greece will be nice to me.

• Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

• Hasty Generalization

• Faulty Analogy

• Ad Hominem Fallacy

Yesterday I ate blackberries, and today I have a stomach ache. The blackberries must have caused this stomach ache.

• Either/ or Reasoning

• Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

• Straw Man Fallacy

• Red Herring

Repeating the claim as a way to provide evidence

• Circular Reasoning

• Red Herring

• Straw Man Fallacy

• Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc