Logical Fallacies

All women are bad drivers.

• bandwagon
• stereotype
• ad hominem
• analogy

We need to stop allowing colleges to increase tuition every year. The next thing we know, it's going to cost more to attend college for one semester than it is to buy a new home!

• bandwagon
• slippery slope
• hasty generalization
• loaded language

Regime vs. government
Pro-death vs. pro-choice

• slippery slope
• ad hominem
• red herring
• loaded language

If you break your diet and have one cookie tonight, you will just want to eat 10 cookies tomorrow, and before you know it, you will have gained back the 15 pounds you lost.

• hasty generalization
• slippery slope
• loaded language
• bandwagon

When your mom gets your phone bill and you have gone over the limit, you begin talking to her about how hard your math class is and how well you did on a test today.

• slippery slope
• bandwagon
• red herring
• hasty generalization

An argument that appeals to popular opinion as the basis for its truth.

• hasty generalization

• circular reasoning

• bandwagon fallacy

• loaded language

An error in reasoning

• Falsehood

• Rhetorical Devices

• Logical Fallacies

• Mistake

Using a personal experience or an isolated example instead of a sound argument or compelling evidence

• Anecdote

• Stereotypes

• Loaded Language

• Bandwagon Appeals

And we've heard some horror stories during the course of this debate. There's the young father I met in Colorado-his child was diagnosed with severe hemophilia the day after he was born. And they had insurance, but there was a cap on their coverage...

• Anecdote

• Bandwagon Appeals

• Stereotypes

• Loaded language

I need your voice. So I want to know---are you fired up?

Audience: Fired up!

President: Ready to go?

Audience: Ready to go!

President: Fired up?

Audience: Fired up!

• Circular Reasoning

• Anecdote

• Bandwagon Appeals

• Loaded Language