Fallacies

Identify the fallacy.

• either/or choices

• scare tactics

• faulty analogy

• circular reasoning

Identify the fallacy.

• either/or choices

• false authority

• faulty analogy

• circular reasoning

Identify the fallacy.

• either/or choices

• false authority

• faulty analogy

• bandwagon

Identify the fallacy.

• faulty analogy

• scare tactics

• ad hominem

• circular reasoning

An attack or reaction to the person rather than the person’s point/argument

• ad hominem

• bandwagon

• circular reasoning

• either/or

What is an example of an appeal to ignorance?

• Nobody has proven that Bigfoot doesn't exist, so therefore Bigfoot exists.

• 1 billion people were served at McDonald's last year, so therefore McDonald's serves delicious food and we should eat there, too.

• Would you rather eat chicken at lunch today or starve?

• That student is wearing the same clothes as yesterday, so therefore that is the student's favorite outfit.

The straw man fallacy is ...

• is the same as the bandwagon fallacy

• when an argument has only two possible solutions but you are led to believe there are more so you can no longer track the argument

• when a debater constructs a more easily defeated version of his opponent's position to attack, rather than addressing his real arguments

A conclusion based on insufficient, incomplete, or biased information

• bandwagon

• hasty generalization

• circular reasoning

• mistaken causality

This happens when you assume that something is acceptable just because it is very common.

• circular reasoning

• ignoring the question

• ad hominem

• bandwagon

This occurs when one wrongly claims that one event causes another.

• ad hominem

• circular reasoning

• mistaken causality

• bandwagon