Logical Fallacies

Charlie: I think we should put more money into schools. Quality public education is so important.

Bob: So you’re saying we should cut military spending and spend it instead on more spiral notebooks and crayons? I guess you want our country to be a weak, defenseless target for terrorists.

• Ad Hominem

• Hasty Generalization

• Faulty Causality

• Straw Man

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My opponent raises a good point, but can we really trust him? I mean, he moved to this town only two years ago and everyone knows that his wife left him.

• Slippery Slope

• Sentimental Appeal

• Bandwagon

• Ad Hominem

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An ad hominem attack

• is a very effective debate strategy
• goes after a person's argument.
• is always against a popular idea.
• is an attack on the person, not the argument 

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What is a logical fallacy?

• An argument with a premise and a conclusion

• An argument that contains a non-statement

• An argument that contains mistake in reasoning

• Sorry sir, please slap me

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This is an example of:

• Circular Reasoning
• Ad Hominem
• Appeal to the Bandwagon
• Hasty Generalization

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Student: You didn't teach us this; we never learned this.

Teacher: So, what you're saying is that you just didn't study it after we went over it in class right? That you don't want to put in the work?

• Strawman Argument

• Circular logic

• Ad Hominem

• False Dilemma

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My opponent raises a good point, but can we really trust him? I mean, he moved to this town only two years ago and everyone knows that his wife left him.

• Slippery Slope

• Sentimental Appeal

• Bandwagon

• Ad Hominem

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If I don’t take this A.P. class, then I won’t do well on the exam. If I don’t do well on the A.P. exam, then I can’t get into a good college. If I can’t get into a good college, then I’ll never get a good job. If I can’t get a good job, then I’m going to have to live in my parents’ basement forever. Guess I’ll sign up for the A.P. class.

• Scare Tactic

• Slippery Slope

• Hasty Generalization

• Faulty Causality

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Identify the logical fallacy.

"Justin's mom gets his phone bill and he has gone over the limit. He begins talking to her about how hard his math class is and how well he did on a test today."

• False dichotomy

• Hasty generalization

• Red herring

• False analogy

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Identify this logical fallacy.

"I met a tall man who loved to eat cheese. Now I believe that all tall people like cheese."

• False Dichotomy

• Ad hominem

• Hasty generalization

• False Analogy

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