Logical Fallacy

Why should we put people on trial when we know they are guilty?

• Begging the Question

• Post Hoc

• Straw Man

• Hasty Generalization

40 million people can't be wrong! Buy the new Iphone XIV today!

• Bandwagon

• False dichotomy

• Post hoc

• Straw man

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 analogy

• hasty generalization

• red herring

• False dichotomy

Every time I wash my car, it rains the next day. My car washing definitely affects the weather.

• ad hominem

• appeals to emotion

• faulty causality

• bandwagon

"My opponent raises a really good point, but can we really trust him? He moved to this town three years ago and everyone knows his wife left him.

• scare tactic

• slippery slope

• hasty generalization

• ad hominem

The economy grows as the number of likes on my Instagram account continue to increase. Clearly, the two are linked.

• faulty causality

• hasty generalization

• scare tactic

• bandwagon

Oh, please. What do you know about labor laws? You don't even have a job.

• hasty generalization

• slippery slope

• ad hominem

• scare tactic

“She was wearing cowboy boots in her last Instagram picture so she must be into country music.”

• bandwagon

• either/or

• hasty generalization

• straw man

If you don’t say the Pledge of Allegiance, then you must be a traitor.

• ad hominem

• scare tactic

• either/or

• straw man

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.

• straw man

• hasty generalization

• scare tactic

• slippery slope