AP Language Fallacies

Starbucks pledged to hire 10,000 refugees in stores worldwide. They should be hiring veterans and military spouses instead!

• slippery slope

• either/or

• faulty causality

• non-sequitur

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

You should never gamble. Once you start gambling you find it hard to stop. Soon you are spending all your money on gambling, and eventually you will turn to crime to support your earnings.

• weak analogy

• appeal to ignorance

• slippery slope

• appeal to pity/overly emotional

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Being a movie star gave me the motivation to develop this new diet, which is safer and more effective than conventional diets.

• appeal to authority

• ad hominem

• hasty generalization

• straw man

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that as the face of our next president?

• appeal to ignorance

• weak analogy

• appeal to authority

• ad hominem

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

People from big cities are not as friendly as those from small towns. I know because I met a person from New York City last year (I live in Snowflake, AZ)

• appeal to pity/overly emotional

• non-sequitur

• faulty causality

• hasty generalization

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

an ad hominem attack

• is a very effective debate strategy

• is always against a popular idea

• goes after a person's argument

• is an attack on the person, not the argument

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is a logical fallacy?

• An argument with a premise and a conclusion

• An argument that contains an error in thinking

• An argument that contains a non-statement

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Cold, fearful, lonely.

Puppy mill dogs need you today.

• appeal to pity/overly emotional

• faulty causality

• weak analogy

• appeal to authority

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Ghosts exist all right. Researchers have spent years trying to disprove their existence, they’ve failed every time.

• non-sequitur

• appeal to authority

• appeal to ignorance

• bandwagon

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

McDonald's: Billions served

• bandwagon

• either/or

• slippery slope

• appeal to pity/overly emotional

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1