Fallacy

"I have already paid a consultant $1000 to look into the pros and cons of starting that new business division. He advised that I shouldn’t move forward with it because it is a declining market. However, if I don’t move forward, that $1000 would have been wasted, so I better move forward anyway."

• sunk costs fallacy

• red herring fallacy

• strawman fallacy

• slippery slope fallacy

Using a celebrity endorsement is typically an appeal to false authority.

• True

• False

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

• bandwagon

• sunk costs

• appeal to ignorance

Name that Fallacy-Distracting from the question

Did you break the lamp? ( I chose to distract you with the following.)

"Your eyes are really pretty in this light. Have you ever thought of becoming a model?"

• Red Herring

• Ad hominem

• Slippery slope

• Bandwagon

• Hasty Generalization

Name that Fallacy- Attacking the person not the argument

• Red Herring

• Ad hominem

• Slippery slope

• Bandwagon

Name that Fallacy-You can either buy this black car or spend the rest of your life walking to school.

• Red Herring

• Ad hominem

• Slippery slope

• Black or White

Name that Fallacy-A single action will result in an unlikely chain of events

If you come tardy to class , you will end up in jail.

• Red Herring

• Ad hominem

• Slippery slope

• Black or White

The word ______a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument.

• fallicy

• faleacy

• falacy

• fallacy

What logical fallacy is committed?

• Straw Man

• Circular Argument

• Non Sequitur

• Red Herring

"All politicians are corrupt."

• Hasty Generalization

• Post Hoc

• Red Herring

• Ad Hominem

Answer explanation

HASTY GENERALIZATION

A small sample is taken from a large body of data, and a conclusion is drawn based on that small sample, then applied to the entire body of data.