Logical Fallacies

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• hasty generalization

• false analogy

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• bandwagon

• false analogy

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• bandwagon

• hasty generalization

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• false analogy

• false dilemma

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• false analogy

• appeal to ignorance

Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist and perhaps the foremost expert in the field, says that evolution is true. Therefore, it's true.

• appeal to authority

• circular reasoning, begging the question

You must obey the law, because it's illegal to break the law.

• false analogy

• circular reasoning

My roommate said her philosophy class was difficult, and the one I'm in is difficult, too. All philosophy classes must be hard.

• bandwagon

• hasty generalization

Mining may destroy the environment, but how about the people whose jobs will be lost with green energy? Should we ban mining?

• false analogy

• appeal to pity

Employees are like nails. Just as nails must be hit in the head in order to make them work, so must employees.

• appeal to ignorance

• appeal to authority